November 2012

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“Do not bring people in your life who weigh you down. And trust your instincts … good relationships feel good. They feel right. They don’t hurt. They’re not painful. That’s not just with somebody you want to marry, but it’s with the friends that you choose. It’s with the people you surround yourselves with.” —Michelle Obama

Nov 30, 20126,751 notes

October 2012

1 post

“How worthless, how weak, how vanquished, how hollow it is to have a father who exists but cannot reach, who says but will not be, who thinks but doesn’t dare, who plays and plays and plays, but only, always, forever in the minor key.” —Cheryl Strayed

Oct 26, 2012

August 2012

1 post

“The sun kept on with its slipping away, and I thought how many small good things in the world might be resting on the shoulders of something terrible.” —Carol Rifka Brunt in Tell the Wolves I’m Home.

Aug 2, 2012

May 2012

1 post

“Someone who’s not yet an adult will tend to respond to a challenge from an adult in a way that acknowledges their dominance. If an adult says ‘that’s a stupid idea,’ a kid will either crawl away with his tail between his legs, or rebel. But rebelling presumes inferiority as much as submission. The adult response to ‘that’s a stupid idea,’ is simply to look the other person in the eye and say ‘Really? Why do you think so?’” —Brett Bonfield

May 10, 2012

April 2011

3 posts

“Strange as it may seem, I still hope for the best, even though the best, like an interesting piece of mail, so rarely arrives, and even when it does it can be lost so easily.” —Lemony Snicket

Apr 21, 2011

“It well may be that in a difficult hour,
Pinned down by pain and moaning for release,
Or nagged by want past resolution’s power,
I might be driven to sell your love for peace,
Or trade the memory of this night for food.
It well may be. I do not think I would.” —Excerpt from Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink by Edna St. Vincent Millay

Apr 5, 2011

“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.” —Plato

Apr 2, 2011

March 2011

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“There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with another. Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss. It is necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live…..the sum of all human wisdom will be contained in these two words: Wait and Hope.” —Alexander Dumas

Mar 3, 2011

February 2011

6 posts

“There’s only one rule that I know of, babies—God damn it, you’ve got to be kind.” —Kurt Vonnegut

Feb 15, 2011

“O remember
In your narrowing dark hours
That more things move
Than blood in the heart.” —Louise Bogan

Feb 10, 2011

“You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” —Dr. Seuss

Feb 9, 2011

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.” —Martin Luther King Jr.

Feb 8, 2011

“Fairy tales are more than true; not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.” —G. K. Chesterton

Feb 7, 2011

“I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.” —Henry David Thoreau

Feb 5, 2011

January 2011

2 posts

“And yet I have had the weakness, and have still the weakness, to wish you to know with what a sudden mastery you kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire.” —Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

Jan 24, 2011

“Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made” —Immanuel Kant

Jan 13, 2011

December 2010

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“December is the toughest month of the year. Others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, October, August, and February.” — Mark Twain (via hippiecrack)

Dec 2, 201012,569 notes

November 2010

2 posts

“The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nov 27, 2010

“Mistrust those in whom the instinct to punish is strong.” —Friedrich Nietzsche

Nov 12, 2010