- "It's just one step between the sublime and the ridiculous" - Napolean(check)
- "To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance"- Oscar Wilde
- “It’s best to take walks late at night. It’s best to do your business only on Mondays and Tuesdays. It’s best to sit in a small room with the shades down and wait. The strongest men are the fewest and the strongest women die alone too.” —Charles Bukowski, The People Look Like Flowers at Last
- “If we wait until we’re ready, we’ll be waiting for the rest of our lives.”- Lemony Snicket
- “Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.” — Janis Joplin
- "what a strange illusion it is to suppose beauty is goodness"- leo tolstoy
- "I'd rather be hated for who I am, then loved for who I am not"- Kurt Cobain
- "No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky"- Bob Dylan
- "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power. You are free"- Jim Morrison
- "Time that you enjoy wasting was not wasted"- John Lennon
- “The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.” -Hemingway
- "Everyone sees what you seem to be, few know what you really are." -Niccolo Machiavelli
- "They say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time." -Banksy
- "give your daughters difficult names. give your daughters names that command the full use of tongue. my name makes you want to tell me the truth. my name doesn’t allow me to trust anyone that cannot pronounce it right." -warsan shire
- "we're all a little weird, and life's a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love." -Dr. Seuss
- "Nothing is important, so people, realising they should get on with their lives, go mad, take their clothes off, jump in canal, jump into on of of those supermarket trolleys, races around the supermarket and steal Mars bars and kiss kittens" -Morrissey
- "Learn to say 'fuck you' to the world once in a while. You have every right to. Just stop thinking, worrying, looking over your shoulder, wondering, doubting, fearing, hurting, hoping for some easy way out, struggling, gasping, confusing, itching, scratching, grumbling, humbling, stumbling, rambling, gambling, tumbling, scrambling, hitching, hatching, bitching, moaning, groaning, honing, boning, horse-shitting, hair-splitting, nit-picking, piss-trickling, nose-sticking, ass-gouging, eyeball-poking, finger-pointing, alleyway-sneaking, long waiting, small stepping, evil-eyeing, back-scratching, searching, perching, besmirching, grinding grinding grinding away at yourself. Stop and just do it. Don't worry about cool. Make your own uncool. Make your own world." -Sol LeWitt to Eva Hesse
- “It’s a strange thing, how you can love somebody, how you can be all eaten up inside with needing them – and they simply don’t need you. That’s all there is to it, and neither of you can do anything about it. And they’ll be the same way with someone else, and someone else will be the same way about you and it goes on and on – this desperate need – and only once in a rare million do the same two people need each other.” -Madeleine L'Engle
- “I know where the self-destruct button is. I just have to resist the temptation to push it.”" -Peter Doherty
- “Once a little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved it. I answer all my children’s letters — sometimes very hastily — but this one I lingered over. I sent him a card and I drew a picture of a Wild Thing on it. I wrote, “Dear Jim: I loved your card.” Then I got a letter back from his mother and she said, “Jim loved your card so much he ate it.” That to me was one of the highest compliments I’ve ever received. He didn’t care that it was an original Maurice Sendak drawing or anything. He saw it, he loved it, he ate it.” -Maurice Sendak
- "I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to love and feel all the shades, tones, and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life. And I am horribly limited." -Sylvia Plath
- "realize how awesome you are. youre too cool for school and any person should be so lucky to be associated with you. stop worrying about how other people perceive you and worry about making sure you do everything that makes you as happy as possible. be kind to people and helpful when you can, give out good vibes and youll get good karma. youre a rockstar \m/" -fuckyeahsexanddrugs
- “I listen obsessively to music - when I wake, lying in the bath and then literally every night. I have this ritual of insanely loud music. For me, it’s a very physical thing. I do believe we’re an important end of an important era. Unfortunately nothing else ever in your life will affect you like music did in your early teens, and it puts you on a certain course. It’s like a love affair. It widens your taste and it broadens your view on everything. It saves you.”— Morrissey
- “When you start to really know someone, all his physical characteristics start to disappear. You begin to dwell in his energy, recognize the scent of his skin. You see only the essence of the person,not the shell. That’s why you can’t fall in love with beauty. You can lust after it, be infatuated by it, want to own it. You can love it with your eyes and body but not your heart. And that’s why, when you really connect with a person’s inner self, any physical imperfections disappear, become irrelevant.” — Lisa Unger
- "The marks humans leave are too often scars" -anonymous
- “ I remember every single spot of light that ever gouged a shadow beside your bones.” -Zelda Fitzgerald
- "flux- the natural state. Our moods change. Our lives change. Out feelings for each other change. Out bearings. The song changes. The air changes. The temperature of the shower changes. Accept this. We must accept this." -unknown.
- "I should have loved a thunderbird instead;/At least when spring comes they roar back again./I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead./(Ithink I made you up inside my head.)"-Sylvia Plath, Mad Girl's Love Song
- "Forgive others, not because they deserve forgivingness, but because you deserve peace." -Arabian proverb
- "I’m not going to censor myself to comfort your ignorance." - Jon Stewart
- "I do not like to write, I like to have written"
- "...and the monotonous hollow roar of the sea came up to them, speaking of peace, of the eternal sleep lying in wait for us all. The sea had roared like this long before there was any Yalta or Oreanda, it was roaring now, and it would ho on roaring just as indifferently and hollowly, when we had passed away. And it may be that in this continuity, this utter indifference to the life and death of each of us lies hidden the pledge of our eternal salvation, of the continuous movement towards perfection."--Anton Chekhov, The Lady with the Dog
- "You don’t know anyone at the party, so you don’t want to go. You don’t like cottage cheese, so you haven’t eaten it in years. This is your choice, of course, but don’t kid yourself: it’s also the flinch. Your personality is not set in stone. You may think a morning coffee is the most enjoyable thing in the world, but it’s really just a habit. Thirty days without it, and you would be fine. You think you have a soul mate, but in fact you could have had any number of spouses. You would have evolved differently, but been just as happy. You can change what you want about yourself at any time. You see yourself as someone who can’t write or play an instrument, who gives in to temptation or makes bad decisions, but that’s really not you. It’s not ingrained. It’s not your personality. Your personality is something else, something deeper than just preferences, and these details on the surface, you can change anytime you like.If it is useful to do so, you must abandon your identity and start again. Sometimes, it’s the only way. Set fire to your old self. It’s not needed here. It’s too busy shopping, gossiping about others, and watching days go by and asking why you haven’t gotten as far as you’d like. This old self will die and be forgotten by all but family, and replaced by someone who makes a difference.Your new self is not like that. Your new self is the Great Chicago Fire—overwhelming, overpowering, and destroying everything that isn’t necessary"--Julien Smith, the Flinch
- "Make all your decisions based on how hilarious it would be if you did it."-Aubrey Plaza
- "When I'm on Instagram and I see that somebody took a picture of themselves, I'm like, 'Thank you.' I don't need to see a picture of the sky, the trees, plants. There's only one you."--Ezra Koenig
- "Someone asked me what home was and all I could think of were the stars on the tip of your tongue, the flowers sprouting from your mouth, the roots entwined in the gaps between your fingers, the ocean echoing inside of your ribcage."--e.e. cummings
- "The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he's in prison."--Fyodor Dostoevsky
- "I am jealous of those who think more deeply, who write better, who draw better, who look better, who live better, who love better than I."--Slyvia Plath
- "Of course I'll hurt you. Of course you'll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very condition of existence. To become spring, means accepting the risk of winter. To become presence, means accepting the risk of absence."--The Little Prince
- "People are just as wonderful as sunsets if you let them be. When I look at a sunset, I don't find myself saying, "Soften the orange a bit on the right hand corner.“ I don't try to control a sunset. I watch with awe as it unfolds.--Carl R. Rogers
- "I spent about three days crying, and just was completely flipped-out. While I was reading the book, she was alive to me. I pretty much knew what was going to happen. But that's the thing: You love people because you know their story. You have sympathy for people even when they do stupid things because you know where they're coming from, you understand where they're at in their head. And so here I am as deep as you can go in someone's head, in some ways deeper than you can go with even someone you know in the flesh. And then at the end, she gets disposed of like a piece of trash. And that was something that completely blew my mind."--Jeff Magnum
- "I saw that you were perfect and so I loved you. Then I saw that you were not perfect and I loved you even more."
- "People always tell you, "Be humble. Be humble.“ When was the last time someone told you to be amazing? Be great! Be great! Be awesome! Be awesome!"--Kanye West
- "Remember when you were young and wild, leaning on chain link fences, trespassing on foreclosed homes with your teen gang, and looking for dried out pools to skate? Yeah, me neither. I squandered my youth wringing my hands and constantly panicking about the future, and on top of that, I never learned how to skate. What a fucking waste."--Hellen Jo
- "Let go, or be dragged."--zen proverb
- "the world must be written about as it is or not at all"-- Tim O'Brien, the vietnam in me
- "I am a lover without a lover. I am lovely and lonely and I belong deeply to myself." - Warsan Shire
- "…and God said, ‘Love your enemy,’ and I obeyed him and loved myself."- Khalil Gibran
- "Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe it to be a beautiful place."— Kurt Vonnegut
- "Bear patiently, my heart - for you have suffered heavier things." -Homer, The Illiad
- "I love borders. August is the border between summer and autumn; it is the most beautiful month I know. Twilight is the border between day and night, and the shore is the border between sea and land. The border is longing; when both have fallen in love but still haven’t said anything. The border is to be on the way. It is the way that is the most important thing."-Snufkin, Moominvalley in November
- "Susie, forgive me Darling, for every word I say—my heart is full of you, none other than you is in my thoughts, yet when I seek to say to you something not for the world, words fail me. If you were here—and Oh that you were, my Susie, we need not talk at all, our eyes would whisper for us, and your hand fast in mine, we would not ask for language—I try to bring you nearer, I chase the weeks away till they are quite departed, and fancy you have come, and I am on my way through the green lane to meet you, and my heart goes scampering so, that I have much ado to bring it back again, and learn it to be patient, till that dear Susie comes. Three weeks — they can’t last always, for surely they must go with their little brothers and sisters to their long home in the west! … and I add a kiss, shyly, lest there is somebody there! Don’t let them see, will you Susie?"- Emily Dickinson, in a letter to her sister-in-law, Susie Gilbert
may 20 2012 ∞
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