January 2012
1 post
“Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for our miseries, and yet it is...”
– Blaise Pascal
December 2011
7 posts
“It’s being at a party, or at a stadium full of people cheering for something,...”
– Charles Bukowski
“What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly...”
– Sylvia Plath
“Human relationships didn’t work anyhow. Only the first two weeks had any zing,...”
– Charles Bukowski; Women
“Everything that is stupid by day seems intelligent and meaningful by night. I...”
– M.J. Hyland; How the Light Gets In
“Don’t worry about being better than anybody you know personally or whose work...”
– Bill Allard
“Does it break my heart, of course, every moment of every day, into more pieces...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer
“The more familiar two people become, the more the language they speak together...”
– Alain de Botton (on love)
November 2011
2 posts
“For with much wisdom comes much sorrow; the more knowledge, the more grief.”
– The Bible, Ecclesiastes 1:18
“I care,” he said in a trembling voice. “I care so much that I do not know how to...”
– Aimee Carter, The Goddess Test
October 2011
5 posts
“I actually attack the concept of happiness. The idea that - I don’t mind people...”
– Hugh Mackay
“What I must do is all that concerns me, not what people think. This rule,equally...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Apply yourself to supply your wealth, / only limitations you’ll ever have are...”
– Kendrick Lamar; Poe Man Dreams
“Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.”
– Janis Joplin
“Why does one feel so different at night? Why is it so exciting to be awake when...”
– Katherine Mansfield
August 2011
3 posts
“If they know nothing of victory,they are at least spared the knowledge of...”
– Oscar Wilde; The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”
– Albert Camus
“I’m apologizing to any girl that had to deal with me. Fuck being real with you,...”
– Dom Kennedy
July 2011
3 posts
“What you will receive in return varies. But it really has no connection with...”
– Katharine Hepburn
Ghandi's Top 10 Fundamentals for Changing the...
Change yourself.
You are in control.
Forget and let go.
Take care of this moment.
Without action you aren’t going anywhere.
Everyone is human.
See the good in people and help them.
Persist.
Be congruent, be authentic, be your true self.
Continue to grow and evolve.
“To my mind it is wholly irresponsible to go into the world incapable of...”
– Ted Nugent
June 2011
13 posts
“Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.”
– Henri Cartier-Bresson
“All I know is that while I’m asleep, I’m never afraid, and I have no hopes, no...”
– Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra; Don Quijote de la Mancha
“When we hold each other, in the darkness, it doesn’t make the darkness go away....”
– Neil Gaiman
“I’ve wanted to kill myself a hundred time, but I still love life. That...”
– Voltaire; Candide
“Man. Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices...”
– Dalai Lama, when asked what surprised him most about humanity
“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t...”
– Louise Erdrich
“So avoid using the word ‘very’ because it’s lazy. A man is not very tired, he is...”
– John Keating; Dead Poets Society
“I’m almost never serious, and I’m always too serious. Too deep, too shallow. Too...”
– Ferdinand von Schrubentaufft
“Loneliness is black coffee and late-night television; solitude is herb tea and...”
“When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we...”
“Those of you who have been through college know that the educational system is...”
– Noam Chomsky
“If you’re important to them, they will always find a way to make time for you....”
– Saadiq Andrews
“People speak sometimes about the ‘animal’ cruelty of man. But that is terribly...”
– Fyodor Dostoevsky
May 2011
10 posts
“One of the main problems is that many people consider the desire for happiness...”
– Daniel Todd Gilbert, Stumbling On Happiness
“Picture anybody growing up so stupid he didn’t know that hope is just another...”
– Chuck Palahniuk; Choke
“I want to draw something that means something to someone. You know, I want to...”
– Peyton; One Tree Hill
“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing...”
– Sylvia Plath
“There are too many ideas and too many people and too many directions to go. The...”
– Adaptation
“I wanted to go on sitting there, not talking, not listening to the others,...”
– Daphne du Maurier
“Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will...”
– Anne Lamott; Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
“The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will...”
– Margaret Atwood
“There were many things I could do for two or three days and earn enough money to...”
– William Faulkner
“If you don’t set a baseline standard for what you’ll accept in life, you’ll find...”
– Anthony Robbins
April 2011
10 posts
“I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by...”
– Stanley Kubrick
“The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get...”
– Stephen King; Different Seasons
“The balance is delicate between who we are and who others believe us to be. It...”
– Frank Turner Hollon; The Wait
“The Catholics believe the only unforgivable sin is suicide. It seemed impossible...”
– Frank Turner Hollon; The Wait
“I read somewhere that not a single cell in our bodies is the same as the cells...”
– Frank Turner Hollon; The Wait
“I’ve always had a real need for permanency. A fundamental clinging demand...”
– Frank Turner Hollon; The Wait