Sunday, August 24, 2014
— Carolyn Hall, 17 Thoughts for Single Women From A Divorcee
“If you’re under 30 and in a relationship right now, and you’re not head over heels, get out. You are way too young to be wasting your time with someone who doesn’t make you really happy to be with them every day. There’s nothing sadder than watching 23-year-olds settle.”
— Connotativewords | That’s How You’ll Know
If you’re the love of my life,
it means that I’ll never use your weaknesses against you, but always use your strengths to better you.
If you’re the love of my life,
and you’re afraid of the dark, I’ll take you to the other side of the earth just to show you the sun.
If you’re the love of my life,
it means that I’d wake up 2 hours early to see you off on your first day of work, and race home in the evening so I can surprise you with flowers when you walk through the door.
If you’re the love of my life,
I’ll let you choose our wedding song because you’ll remind me that the person I’m dancing with is infinitely more important than what I’ll be dancing to.
If you’re the love of my life,
I’ll always be your biggest fan.
If you’re the love of my life,
I’ll be your eternal lifeguard as a reminder that you save me every single day.
If you’re the love of my life,
I swear not a day will go by that you won’t know it.
Rules for a Happy Life
1. Focus on the positive, not the negative.
3. Don’t be afraid to say “I love you”.
4. Be someone who gives to, and who nurtures, others.
5. Look for the good in everything and everyone.
6. Prioritise your time, and do what matters first.
7. Don’t sweat the small stuff, or let stupid things upset you.
8. Set healthy boundaries in relationships.
9. Keep on dreaming, and invest in your dreams.
10. Let go of worry and anxiety.
i hope one day....
“I hope one day
Your human body
Is not a jail cell,
Instead it’s a sunny
2pm garden with daisies
Thriving because of
Self love.”
Your human body
Is not a jail cell,
Instead it’s a sunny
2pm garden with daisies
Thriving because of
Self love.”
I don’t know if I can survive that.
I’m scared that if I let myself be happy for just one moment, the world’s just going to come crashing down. And I don’t know if I can survive that.
— The Spectacular Now (Tim Tharp)
“Nothing lasts,” she says, and there’s a little crack in her voice. “You think it’s going to. You think, ‘Here’s something I can hold on to,’ but it always slips away.”
Saturday, August 23, 2014
You’re goddamn right she did.
“All you need to know about Sansa in this book is that she has a direwolf – a giant, monstrous wolf, a half-mythological monster, a killing machine – and she names it Lady.”
— Mark Z. Danielewski, The House of Leaves
“Focus on these words, and whatever you do don’t let your eyes wander past the perimeter of this page. Now imagine just beyond your peripheral vision, maybe behind you, maybe to the side of you, maybe even in front of you, but right where you can’t see it, something is quietly closing in on you, so quiet in fact you can only hear it as silence. Find those pockets without sound. That’s where it is. Right at this moment. But don’t look. Keep your eyes here. Now take a deep breath. Go ahead take an even deeper one. Only this time as you start to exhale, try to imagine how fast it will happen, how hard it’s gonna hit you, how many times it will stab your jugular with its teeth or are they nails?, don’t worry, that particular detail doesn’t matter, because before you have time to even process that you should be moving, you should be running, you should at the very least be flinging up your arms – you sure as hell should be getting rid of this book – you don’t have time to even scream.
Don’t look.
I didn’t.”
Don’t look.
I didn’t.”
Haruki Murakami
“In everybody’s life there’s a point of no return. And in a very few cases, a point where you can’t go forward anymore. And when we reach that point, all we can do is quietly accept the fact. That’s how we survive.”
— The Purity of a Kiss
“I think kissing is the most pure and raw form of physical contact there could ever be. Sex is intimate, sure, but you can have sex with anyone. A kiss though, my god. A kiss can change your world. A small touch between two pairs of lips can blow your mind. Whether it be short and sweet, or long and intense. And when you find someone that looks at you like you’re more beautiful than a blossoming rose; you never want to feel another’s lips against yours ever again.”
— Samuel Beckett, from Endgame
“One day you’ll be blind like me. You’ll be sitting here, a speck in the void, in the dark, forever, like me. One day you’ll say to yourself, I’m tired, I’ll sit down, and you’ll go and sit down. Then you’ll say, I’m hungry, I’ll get up and get something to eat. But you won’t get up. You’ll say, I shouldn’t have sat down, but since I have I’ll sit on a little longer, then I’ll get up and get something to eat. But you won’t get up and you won’t get anything to eat.You’ll look at the wall a while, then you’ll say, I’ll close my eyes, perhaps have a little sleep, after that I’ll feel better, and you’ll close them. And when you open them again there’ll be no wall any more. Infinite emptiness will be all around you, all the resurrected dead of all the ages wouldn’t fill it, and there you’ll be like a little bit of grit in the middle of the steppe. Yes, one day you’ll know what it is, you’ll be like me, except that you won’t have anyone with you, because you won’t have had pity on anyone and because there won’t be anyone left to have pity on you.”
10 Ways To Meet New People
It’s always great to make new friends and meet new people, whether you’re new in town and don’t know anyone, or you already have a group of friends. It’s awesome to meet new people and add to the diversity of relationships that you have. But meeting people can seem daunting when you first start out. Here’s 10 ways to meet new [people and make new friends.
Intimacy
“Intimacy is not who you let touch your genitalia. Intimacy is who you text at 3am about your dreams and fears. Intimacy is giving someone your attention, when ten other people are asking for it. Intimacy is the person always in the back of your mind, no matter how distracted you are.”
— Tennessee Williams
“I tried to leave you behind me, but I am
more faithful than I intended to be.”
more faithful than I intended to be.”
— Richard P. Feynman
“Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn’t matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough.”
Thursday, August 21, 2014
The Faults In Our Stars
I nudged my head into his shoulder.
“Thanks for offering to come over.”
“You realize that trying to keep your distance
from me will not lessen my affection
for you,” he said.
“I guess?” I said.
“All efforts to save me from you will
fail,” he said.
“Why? Why would you even like me?
Haven’t you put yourself through enough of
this?” I asked, thinking of Caroline Mathers.
Gus didn’t answer. He just held on to
me, his fingers strong against my left arm.
“We gotta do something about this frigging
swing set,” he said. “I’m telling you, it’s
ninety percent of the problem.”
“Thanks for offering to come over.”
“You realize that trying to keep your distance
from me will not lessen my affection
for you,” he said.
“I guess?” I said.
“All efforts to save me from you will
fail,” he said.
“Why? Why would you even like me?
Haven’t you put yourself through enough of
this?” I asked, thinking of Caroline Mathers.
Gus didn’t answer. He just held on to
me, his fingers strong against my left arm.
“We gotta do something about this frigging
swing set,” he said. “I’m telling you, it’s
ninety percent of the problem.”
— Laurell K. Hamilton, A Stroke of Midnight
“My father had taught me to be nice first, because you can always be mean later, but once you’ve been mean to someone, they won’t believe the nice anymore. So be nice, be nice, until it’s time to stop being nice, then destroy them.”
— Rumi
I choose to love you in silence…
For in silence I find no rejection,
I choose to love you in loneliness…
For in loneliness no one owns you but me,
I choose to adore you from a distance…
For distance will shield me from pain,
I choose to kiss you in the wind…
For the wind is gentler than my lips,
I choose to hold you in my dreams…
For in my dreams, you have no end.
Confidence
Confidence isn’t walking into a room with your nose in the air, and thinking you are better than everyone else, it’s walking into a room and not having to compare yourself to anyone else in the first place.
If you find someone
If you find someone who makes you smile,
Who checks up on you to see if you’re okay,
Who watches out for you and wants the very best for you,
Don’t let them go.
Keep them close and don’t take them for granted.
People like them are hard to find.
If I Knew
If I knew how to write a song
I’d write one everyday
It would say that I’m in love with you
And why I feel this way
It would have to say you’re pretty
And as rare as a desert rose
It would say you’re a looker
From your head down to your toes
You are funny, dainty, fragile
And as feminine as can be
You’re smart charming lovely
And everything to me
You’re my comfort when I’m lonely
You’re my peace when I need rest
Of all the women I’ve known
I must rate you the best.
You’re the orchard in the jungle,
you’re the better half of me
You’re all of this and so much more,
you mean the world to me
Still so much is left unsaid,
It would take me far to long
I know how much I love you,
If only I could write a song.
~ Billy
I’d write one everyday
It would say that I’m in love with you
And why I feel this way
It would have to say you’re pretty
And as rare as a desert rose
It would say you’re a looker
From your head down to your toes
You are funny, dainty, fragile
And as feminine as can be
You’re smart charming lovely
And everything to me
You’re my comfort when I’m lonely
You’re my peace when I need rest
Of all the women I’ve known
I must rate you the best.
You’re the orchard in the jungle,
you’re the better half of me
You’re all of this and so much more,
you mean the world to me
Still so much is left unsaid,
It would take me far to long
I know how much I love you,
If only I could write a song.
~ Billy
~ Snowy
It's Me Your Shadow
I’ve been following you throughout
your life; I’ve watched you make
mistakes, even sometimes falling twice.
Giving your love to whoever offers
a good lay, I am your only true love
so why in my arms you won’t forever
stay?
Searching for yourself in broken cisterns,
where your heart could never run free.
Down to the dirt you are ready to sink.
You’ll never notice me, the shadow that
catches you when you are ready to fall,
and the one who’ll come running when
you call.
Following you on your journey, that keeps
putting my heart in the grinder, and like a
sticky note I keep trying to remind you.
It’s me your shadow, the one you call your
best friend, the one who has to pretend.
Pretend that I don’t love you in a different
way, the one who gather you up when your
heart is about to break.
Yes I feel like your shadow that you call
upon when things go astray, and you keep
wasting me like good woman can be replace.
It’s me your shadow saying I love you, I am screaming out and like those that have hurt
you, you is tarring my heart out.
Don’t abandon something real for something
that will never live.
It’s me .
— John O’Donohue
“One of the tasks of true friendship is to listen compassionately and creatively to the hidden silences. Often secrets are not revealed in words, they lie concealed in the silence between the words or in the depth of what is unsayable between two people.”
— Paulo Coelho
“When he looked into her dark eyes, and saw that her lips were poised between a laugh and silence, he learned the most important part of the language that all the world spoke – the language that everyone on earth was capable of understanding in their heart. It was love. Something older than humanity, more ancient than the desert.”
Tuesday, August 19, 2014
— Alice Munro, Dear Life: Stories
“The thing is to be happy,” he said. “No matter what. Just try that. You can. It gets to be easier and easier. It’s nothing to do with circumstances. You wouldn’t believe how good it is. Accept everything and then tragedy disappears.”
— Pavana पवन
“Take away language.
rip out my tongue.
I will still speak with a cut,
an open wound.
I need no words
to speak your name,
my blood swears by you.”
rip out my tongue.
I will still speak with a cut,
an open wound.
I need no words
to speak your name,
my blood swears by you.”
— Tarryn Fisher, Mud Vein
“What’s the difference?” I asked him. “Between the love of your life, and your soulmate?”
“One is a choice, and one is not.”
— T.B. LaBerge // Go Now
Sometimes we need to stop and say “Thank you for loving me.”
It is such a simple thing to say yet it carries so much weight, whether it is with a spouse while you both read your books or it’s with a friend who has been with you through thick and thin or it is to a family member who has loved you from the start.
Those words, that thought, the action of saying it to them with purpose and truth can mean the world to them. Because after all, they mean enough for you to say “Thank you for loving me.”
It is such a simple thing to say yet it carries so much weight, whether it is with a spouse while you both read your books or it’s with a friend who has been with you through thick and thin or it is to a family member who has loved you from the start.
Those words, that thought, the action of saying it to them with purpose and truth can mean the world to them. Because after all, they mean enough for you to say “Thank you for loving me.”
Life is all about risks and it requires you to jump.
Life is all about risks and it requires you to jump. Don’t be a person who has to look back and wonder that they would have or could have had . No one lives forever…
— William Martin
“Do not ask your children
to strive for extraordinary lives.
Such striving may seem admirable,
but it is the way of foolishness.
Help them instead to find the wonder
and the marvel of an ordinary life.
Show them the joy of tasting
tomatoes, apples and pears.
Show them how to cry
when pets and people die.
Show them the infinite pleasure
in the touch of a hand.
And make the ordinary come alive for them.
The extraordinary will take care of itself.”
to strive for extraordinary lives.
Such striving may seem admirable,
but it is the way of foolishness.
Help them instead to find the wonder
and the marvel of an ordinary life.
Show them the joy of tasting
tomatoes, apples and pears.
Show them how to cry
when pets and people die.
Show them the infinite pleasure
in the touch of a hand.
And make the ordinary come alive for them.
The extraordinary will take care of itself.”
— Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
“There are some people you like immediately, some whom you think you might learn to like in the fullness of time, and some that you simply want to push away from you with a sharp stick.”
Friday, August 15, 2014
Tips for Becoming More confident
1. Stop discounting your successes - start affirming them instead. Don’t say “Oh, it’s nothing” or “Everyone could do that”. Treat, and talk to, yourself as you would a good friend.
2. Develop a positive attitude, and choose to get your mind off the negatives. For example, write down three things that went well each day, and three separate things that you are thankful for.
3. Work on your appearance; make an effort to look good. That doesn’t always have to cost the earth – and you’ll feel much happier and more confident.
4. Don’t be a doormat – or just follow the crowd. Think about your needs and what YOU want from life.
5. Be willing to take risks. If you don’t take a risk then nothing’s going to change – and you’ll be stuck in a rut going nowhere in life.
2. Develop a positive attitude, and choose to get your mind off the negatives. For example, write down three things that went well each day, and three separate things that you are thankful for.
3. Work on your appearance; make an effort to look good. That doesn’t always have to cost the earth – and you’ll feel much happier and more confident.
4. Don’t be a doormat – or just follow the crowd. Think about your needs and what YOU want from life.
5. Be willing to take risks. If you don’t take a risk then nothing’s going to change – and you’ll be stuck in a rut going nowhere in life.
— Jeaniene Frost, Halfway to the Grave
I’ve wanted you from the moment we met, and if you think sitting next to me in your bra doesn’t overwhelm me with desire, you’re very wrong. I just don’t force myself where I’m not invited.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
“Mysteries are feminine;
they like to veil themselves
but still want to be seen
and divined.”
they like to veil themselves
but still want to be seen
and divined.”
Sunday, August 3, 2014
It's August baby!
I cannot believe we are onto the last month of summer. I have a few weeks left of work then i'm free as a bird....*pause*.... How are you guys feeling for the fall? Are you terrified or have school to continue with or just love your job that you can't wait to get started again? Well what every your reason might be i think that you're gonna make it! :)
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