January 2009
165 posts
“Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh...”
– Henry Ward Beecher (via skysignal)
“For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.”
– Carl Sagan (via reluctantbuddha)
December 2008
145 posts
“I am grateful for what I am and have.
My thanksgiving is perpetual…
O how I...”
– Henry David Thoreau (via lickystickypicky) (via myquarterlifecrisis)
“Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn’t be able to fly, but the bumblebee...”
– Mary Kay Ash (via skysignal)
“It is always the simple things that change our lives. And these things never...”
– Donald Miller (via 32oz) (via emilyposts)
“Never let your memories be greater than your dreams.”
– Doug Ivester (via snowblind: havent-got-a-prayer) (via thresca)
“Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without...”
– George Sand (via thresca)
“You’ve got to own your own days and name them, each one of them, every one of...”
– Herb Gardner (via outofthedark:snowblind) (via trappedintime) (via anotherandomspaceontheinterweb) (via frannyandzooey)
“Millions long for immortality who don’t know what to do with themselves on a...”
– Susan Ertz (via dailymeh) (via emilyposts)
“Your life is an occasion. Rise to it.”
– Mr Magorium, Mr Magorium’s Wonder Emporium (via darylzarraga) (via skysignal)
“Unless it is mad, passionate, extraordinary love, it’s a waste of time. There...”
– Unknown (via lorenrochelle) (via justlia) (via skysignal) (via snickerdoodle)
“It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when...”
– Oscar Wilde (via thoughtsdetained) (via cosmottimista) (via jaim)
“When people walk away from you, let them walk. Don’t try to talk another person...”
– (via outlaws) (via reluctantbuddha) (via unexcitable) (via dontshushme)
“Make fun of my BA in English all you like, no English major’s fucked over the...”
– Shorter Excerpts (via peterwknox) (via kaytee)
Actually, the English majors are just as bad as the traders are. Rather than merely having an initial fall due to something bad happening, there’s three weeks of panic due to a 24-hour news cycle causing consumer confidence to plummet further. If we...
“However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard...”
– Henry David Thoreau (via extremewhalerider) (via frannyandzooey)
“When you carry out acts of kindness you get a wonderful feeling inside. It is as...”
– Harold Kushner (via skysignal)
“Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via onherway)
“Fate controls who walks into your life. You decide who you let walk out, who you...”
– Unknown (via overflowing) (via unexcitable) (via inwaves) (via onherway)
“Show me the books he loves and I shall know the man far better than through...”
– Dawn Adams (via lindsaydinkins)
“It’s not about being who everyone else wants you to be, it’s about being...”
– (via olivejooce) (via hit-or-miss) (via skysignal) (via snickerdoodle)
“The greater your capacity to love, the greater is your capacity to feel the...”
– Jennifer Aniston (via lindsaydinkins)
“It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your...”
– Judith Martin (via travors)
last nice thought before i peace for the day.
(via natface)
what's shakespeare to us, and we to him? plenty. →
paperbackgirl:
Shakespeare’s work, in her opinion, is so constantly mutable that it always exists in the present, whatever that present might be. The ways in which Shakespeare is interpreted in different eras say as much about those time periods as they do about the writing itself.—janet maslin
Reblogging for Jessie and to read tonight.
“I must learn to love the fool in me- the one who feels too much, talks too much,...”
– Theodore Isaac Rubin (via sheasylvia: carlyjo: crazybeautiful: onherway) (via thresca)
“The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own....”
– Bob Moawad (via thresca)