December 2010
54 posts
“Don’t fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest...”
– Louis E. Boone (via kari-shma)
prettystuff:
“Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat it, and when you sleep, really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell, and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.”
William Saroyan
Half heartedly: 21 Suggestions for Success: →
littlemiss:
By H. Jackson Brown Jr.
Marry the right person. This one decision will determine 90% of your happiness or misery.
Work at something you enjoy and that’s worthy of your time and talent.
Give people more than they expect and do it cheerfully.
Become the most positive and enthusiastic person you…
“The journey between what you once were and who you are now becoming is where the...”
– Barbara De Angelis (via kari-shma)
“I am a big believer in the “go for it.” Set a goal. Write it down. Make it work.”
– elise joy (via lillieinthecity)
girlmeetsdream:
May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you’re wonderful, and don’t forget to make some art — write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.
Neil Gaiman
“A person does not have to be behind bars to be a prisoner. People can be...”
– Neem Korali Baba (via forevernotenough)
“We could say that meditation doesn’t have a reason or doesn’t have a purpose. In...”
– Alan Watts (via alanwatts)
“Sometimes, I look outside and I think that a lot of other people have seen this...”
– Stephen Chbosky (via julie911)
“If I’ve learned one thing in the past months it has been to save the energy I...”
– Molly Carlile (via subtlecluster)
“You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage -...”
– Stephen Cove (via inspiri)
“The difference between the man who just cuts lawns and a real gardener is in the...”
– Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 (via liquidnight)
“If you want to succeed in your life, remember this phrase: the past does not...”
– Anthony Robbins (via 11ruesimoncrubellier: batchiara)
What are you going to do, right now? (via fuckyeahzenmind)
““I have always, essentially, been waiting. Waiting to become something else,...”
– Shauna Niequist (via hippiecrack)
“Jump into the abyss and discover it’s a feathered bed.”
– Terence McKenna (via theministryoftruth)
“Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself; I, not events, have the power...”
– Groucho Marx (via hamandheroin) (via smayheml) (via slightlypretentious)
“We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when...”
– Charles Kingsley (via robot-heart) (via happythings)
“develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music...”
– henry miller (via texturism)
“You only lose that which you cling to.”
– Buddha (via oceanofmind)
“I’ve lost everything - my job, my future, everything people think is important,...”
– Michael Crawford, Hello Dolly! (via thoughtsdetained) (via happythings)
“I wish we could sometimes love the characters in real life as we love the...”
– G.K. Chesterton (via suzywire)
“They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world:...”
– Tom Bodett (via lostinthesounds)
“Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an...”
– Katherine Mansfield (via makes-me-smile)
“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t...”
– Louise Erdrich (via hippiecrack)
“Paris is always a good idea.”
– Audrey Hepburn (via xoxsarah)
“Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.”
– The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
