• My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud. (Henry Rollins)
  • You own everything that happened to you. Tell people your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should've behaved better. (Anne Lamott)
  • The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before. (Neil Gaiman)
  • May the bridges I burn light the way.
  • Happy is what you realize you are a fraction of a second before it's too late. (Hotel World by Ali Smith)
  • You lose everything you love in the order in which you love it. (Threats by Amelia Grey)
  • Books were safer than other people anyway. (The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman)
  • Rebel children, I urge you, fight the turgid slick of conformity with which they seek to smother your glory. (My Booky Wook by Russell Brand)
  • Perhaps this is the moment for which you have been created. (Esther 4:14)
  • Keep your blood clean, your body lean, and your mind sharp. (Henry Rollins)
  • Scar tissue is strong than regular tissue. Realize the strength & move on. (Rollins)
  • I know the dance moves and destinations, but I long for the journey with you. (Bawksley Burns for Isadora by Hawksley Workman)
  • Kicking and screaming can look like singing and dancing depending on whether you're watching from an island or a star. (Bawksley Burns for Isadora by Hawksley Workman)
  • We must have one love, one great love in our life, since it gives us an alibi for all the moments when we are filled with despair. (Albert Camus)
  • The air I breathe in a room empty of you is unhealthy. (John Keats)
  • People are made of flesh and blood and a miracle fiber called courage. (George S. Patton)
  • We accept the love we think we deserve. (The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky)
  • I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions. (Augusten Burroughs)
  • Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion. (Rumi)
  • You need a little bit of insanity to do great things. (Henry Rollins)
  • And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. (Nietzsche)
  • You can't change the world, you have to change yourself. (Marilyn Manson)
  • Just because one person’s problem is less traumatic than another’s doesn’t mean they’re required to hurt less. (J.A. Redmerski)
  • Now you’re here and everything we touch explodes, bursts into bloom or burns to ash. (Henry Rollins)
  • You’re a different human being to everybody you meet. (Chuck Palahniuk)
  • Find what you love, and let it kill you. (Charles Bukowski)
  • Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living. (Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer)
  • I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being, with an independent will. (Jane Eyre)
  • Men are taught to apologize for their weaknesses, women for their strengths. (Lois Wyse)
  • A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.
  • We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
  • No matter how much you think you love somebody, you’ll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close. (Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk)
  • Love and life belongs to great risk. (Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk)
  • It’ll destroy you if you try to make it mean anything to anyone but yourself. (Henry Rollins)
  • We adore chaos because we love to produce order. (MC Escher)
  • If we all did the things we are capable of doing we would literally astound ourselves. (Edison)
  • I need not sell my soul to buy bliss. (Jane Eyre)
  • Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful. (Frankenstein by Mary Shelley)
  • You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star. (Nietzsche)
  • Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly. (Morticia Addams)
  • I ask you to pass through life at my side—to be my second self, and best earthly companion. (Jane Eyre)
nov 26 2014 ∞
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