June 2012
30 Ways To Make Your 20's Better →
siximpossiblethingsforbreakfast:
1. Accept that you can’t please everybody, and then decide which select few opinions and feelings you value enough to try and satisfy.
2. Recognize that the grass always seems greener on the other side. Perhaps the grass you’re standing on just needs a little watering — it’s not necessarily where you’re at, so much as what you do there.
3. Don’t spend too much...
“It will be a little messy, but embrace the mess. It will be complicated, but...”
– RIP Nora Ephron
(via buildingaladder)
This whole quote was great (click through), but this part really got me.
(via lizlemon)
“There are times to stay put, and what you want will come to you, and there are...”
– ― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can’t Avoid (via justbesplendid)
“Open your mouth only if what you are going to say is more beautiful than...”
– Arabic proverb (via cherrry-blossom)
“All religions, all this singing, one song. The differences are just illusion and...”
– Rumi (via unconditionedconsciousness)
“I want to thank you, Lord, for life and all that’s in it.
Thank you for the day...”
– Maya Angelou (via thresca)
“Hang in there. It is astonishing how short a time it can take for very wonderful...”
– Frances Hodgson Burnett (via lonehands)
“I cried over beautiful things, knowing no beautiful thing lasts.”
– Carl Sandburg (via gaws)
“If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then...”
– Einstein (via terramantra)
“Everything I do is in accordance with my ideas: to use every minute of these...”
– Gloria Patch (via americangentility)
“Family isn’t always blood. It’s the people in your life who want you in theirs....”
– (via soul-surfer)
scout:
heisenbergsays:
andrewvache:
The Guy...
“To live every day as if it has been stolen from death, that is how I would like...”
– The Art of Racing in the Rain, by Garth Stein (via sunflower-soul)
“I have been bent and broken, but — I hope — into a better shape.”
– Charles Dickens, Great Expectations (via modernhepburn)
“I believe that treating other people well is a lost art.”
– Tim Gunn (via nirvikalpa)
“One day you will wake up and there won’t be any more time to do the things...”
– Paulo Coelho (via thelittleyellowdiary)
“I think you can have anything that you want. Find someone who has a life that...”
– Lana Del Rey (via whatsnottolove)
“If you are not happy here and now, you never will be.”
– Taisen Deshimaru (via nirvikalpa)
“Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an...”
– Napoleon Hill (via lovemorefearless)
“Someday you’ll find the right person, and you’ll learn to have a lot more...”
– Haruki Murakami (via harrychillboy)
“I marvel at how even the wrong choices can keep us on the right path. How the...”
– Katie Klein, Cross My Heart (via simply-quotes)
“Just as a snake sheds its skin, we must shed our past over and over again.”
– Buddha (via light-essence)
“Don’t look back, you’re not going that way.”
– Author Unknown (via theartofskulduggery)
“The grace we show to one another, especially when it may not be warranted, is...”
– Dad, in an email this morning (via umcanyounot)
“I have less time, less tolerance for bullshit, more interest in good taste, more...”
– Nick Hornby (via ijustmightt)
siximpossiblethingsforbreakfast:
“I never cared all that much whether I beat others or lost to them. This sentiment remained pretty unchanged after I grew up. It doesn’t matter what field you’re talking about— beating somebody else just doesn’t do it for me. I’m much more interested in whether I reach the goals that I set for myself.”
— Haruki Murakami in What I Talk About When I Talk About...
“Life becomes easier when you learn to accept an apology you never got.”
– Robert Brault (via selflessheart)
Re-blogging again; still relevant
“My suggestion is that whenever you have to choose, always choose the unknown,...”
– Osho (via lashla)
“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I...”
– Rumi (via areyouhappyenough)
“So many people enter and leave your life. Hundreds of thousands of people! You...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer (via skullsandvanity)
