- "When the truth would be unbearable the mind often just blanks it out. But some ghost of an event may stay in your head. Then, like the smudge of a bad word quickly wiped off a school blackboard, this ghost can call undue attention to itself by its very vagueness. You keep studying the dim shape of it, as if the original form will magically emerge. This blank spot in my past, then, spoke most loudly to me by being blank."
- Mary Karr, The Liars' Club
- “It’s about being a young adult. You’re burning that small candle of naivety, but once it burns out its gone forever,” he recalls. “And then we light that big fat bastard called cynicism and it burns for the rest of your life. It took me remembering that naïve kid to realize that I liked who I was then.”
- Tyson Ritter on the album Kids In The Street
- "I'm afraid to live and I'm afraid to die. What a way to exist."
- Basically, we are all responsible for the preservation of our personal joy; but happiness is different. Joy is not circumstantial, happiness is. You can be depressed and still have joy. You can be suicidal and still have joy. We all stop thinking and we all stop talking and we all stop sharing and we all stop creating, because by doing any of these things we quickly find out just how unhappy we are. But that’s okay. That’s normal. Don’t let the fear of unhappiness cripple your pursuit of finding what it is you believe. Since joy is found in belief, we all have to push through unhappiness to find joy.
apr 7 2013 ∞
aug 13 2016 +