| main | ongoing | archive | private |
- I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you can appreciate them when they’re right, you believe less so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together. -- Marilyn Monroe
- Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity. -- Charles Mingus
- So often in my literature classes students told me what they “felt” about a novel, or a particular character in a novel. I tried, ever so gently, to tell them that no one cared what they felt; the trick was to discover not one’s feelings but what the author had put into the book, its moral weight and its resultant power. In essay courses, many of these same students turned in papers upon which I wished to—but did not—write: “D-, Too much love in the home.” I knew where they came by their sense of their own deep significance and that this sense was utterly false to any conceivable reality. Despite what their parents had been telling them from the very outset of their lives, they were not significant. Significance has to be earned, and it is earned only through achievement. Besides, one of the first things that people who really are significant seem to know is that, in the grander scheme, they are themselves really quite insignificant. -- The Kindergarchy
- Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. -- unknown
- If the truth is unacceptable, then that's not your problem anymore. Aren't we taught to tell the truth? -- Ccigaux
- Be glad of life. -- Henry van Dyke
- Conversations should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood. -- William Shakespeare
- Just because an opinion applies to you doesn’t mean it was aimed at you. -- Xtine Rey
- Even after all this time, the sun never says to the earth, "You owe me." Look what happens with a love like that. It lights up the sky. -- Hafiz
- What I want is to be needed. What I need is to be indispensable to somebody. Who I need is somebody that will eat up all my free time, my ego, my attention. Somebody addicted to me. A mutual addiction. -- Chuck Palahniuk
- I do not believe in having “my soul mate” or “the soul mate.” I think once can have more than one soul mates in this life. The Serendipity-based “if you don’t work out with him, you’re doomed; he’s The One!” crap is too good to be true—made only for TV. -- L a u r e n e
- I’m a pool of imperfections. Sometimes I’m moody. I can get angry easily. I listen to my music way too loud. And I don’t always put a good foot forward. I can snap at people, but of course I don’t mean to. I hold things off until the last minute, and sometimes I just don’t want to make a first move so things go undone. I can be messy, confusing, and even a little careless at times. -- Unknown
- “We barely know each other, and yet have made a big difference in each other’s lives.” … I hadn’t quite considered that maybe I’d affected someone deeply, but never knew it. It made me wonder if there was anyone else out there who thought of me as a driving force behind their self-actualization. -- Megan McCafferty
- It’s so strange how you can spend so much time with the people responsible for your very existence, yet know so little about them. Then again, how much do we ever know about anyone? Why should our parents be any exception? -- Megan McCafferty
- No matter how powerful and real your feelings may be for someone, if that person cannot fully and honestly return them and therefore actively love you back, these feelings mean nothing. -- He`s Just Not That Into You
- Uncertainty is caused by a lack of knowledge. Hesitation is the product of fear. -- MarcandAngel.com
- Certain things they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone. I know that’s impossible, but it’s too bad anyway. -- J.D. Salinger
- Marriage is a wonderful way of destroying not just your own life, but somebody else’s. -- Little Britain USA
- The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge. -- Daniel Boorstin
- I’m beginning to think that maybe it’s not just how much you love someone. Maybe what matters is who you are when you’re with them. -- The Accidental Tourist
- No wonder we cannot appreciate the really central Kafka joke: that the horrific struggle to establish a human self results in a self whose humanity is inseparable from the horrific struggle. That our endless and impossible journey toward home is in fact our home. David Foster Wallace, Consider the Lobster: And Other Essays
- My life’s a disaster. But that’s not the worst of it. The real problem is that I’m so aware of it. Antoine, How I Became Stupid by Martin Page
- Anxiety is not fear, exactly, because fear is focused on something right in front of you, a real and objective danger. It is instead a kind of fear gone wild, a generalized sense of dread about something out there that seems menacing — but that in truth is not menacing, and may not even be out there. If you’re anxious, you find it difficult to talk yourself out of this foreboding; you become trapped in an endless loop of what-ifs. Understanding the Anxious Mind - NY Times
- And Lot’s wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse Five
- Kerouac in That 70s Show
- Do it, because a girl who reads possesses a vocabulary that can describe that amorphous discontent as a life unfulfilled—a vocabulary that parses the innate beauty of the world and makes it an accessible necessity instead of an alien wonder. A girl who reads lays claim to a vocabulary that distinguishes between the specious and soulless rhetoric of someone who cannot love her, and the inarticulate desperation of someone who loves her too much. Charles Warnke
- In arguing for Peggy’s vision for the Pond’s campaign over Freddie’s, Don tells Faye Miller that past behavior is not necessarily predictive of future behavior, and he’s living proof of that. So are Peggy, and Pete, and Ken, and most of the other significant characters in this episode. They have changed, right along with the world. They do things in 1965 that their 1960 selves would not believe possible. They’ve rejected parts of themselves from before, whether for good (a more mature Pete, a bolder Peggy) or ill (a pathetic Don, a tense Ken). http://www.hitfix.com/blogs/whats-alan-watching/posts/mad-men-the-rejected-the-pear-ent-trap
oct 15 2008 ∞
jul 10 2011 +
jul 10 2011 +