— Rachel Cohn and David Levithan, Naomi and Ely’s No Kiss List

It’s bullsh*t to think of friendship and romance as being different. They’re not. They’re just variations of the same love. Variations of the same desire to be close.

— The karate kid

“Being still and doing nothing 

are two very different things.”

Got an email:

I have a theory: I think it’s easier to love the people who you know will never love you back, like celebrities or older boys you just see in the halls, because they can’t hurt you on purpose. You can love them and give them your heart, but you do not trust them with it because you’re aware that they’ll probably break it. But you know that when you give your heart to them. When you they do break your heart, like when they kiss their celebrity girlfriend or hold hands with someone else, you can’t blame them, because they don’t even know they’re hurting you. It’s different from loving someone who loves you back. The piece of your heart that you give to them is breakable, yet you trust them not to break it. You trust them to protect it when someone else comes along to test its strength. And when you see them break your heart, it hurts so much more, because they know what they’re doing to you, and they do it anyway.

Love, -----

Smallville 9.05 Roulette

— Albert Camus, from Notebooks, 1951-1959

Find meaning. Distinguish melancholy from sadness. Go out for a walk. It doesn’t have to be a romantic walk in the park, spring at its most spectacular moment, flowers and smells and outstanding poetical imagery smoothly transferring you into another world. It doesn’t have to be a walk during which you’ll have multiple life epiphanies and discover meanings no other brain ever managed to encounter. Do not be afraid of spending quality time by yourself. Find meaning or don’t find meaning but “steal” some time and give it freely and exclusively to your own self. Opt for privacy and solitude. That doesn’t make you antisocial or cause you to reject the rest of the world. But you need to breathe. And you need to be.

HE'S A GUY.

you are capable of loving and of being loved. you deserve nothing less.

you are capable of loving and of being loved. you deserve nothing less.
you know that you are not perfect. there may be parts of you that you would change if you could, but you should accept that some things in life cannot be changed. this acceptance isn’t easy, but it makes you a stronger person. try your best not to dwell on your imperfections in resentment or frustration. instead, try to see them as just part of a beautiful whole. it is the very things that make you different, that makes you beautiful.

Bunny, I’m a simple girl. I want to live a simple life.

Bunny, I’m a simple girl. I want to live a simple life.

You’re not wrong. You’re just very different from me.

With you, it's different

Don't judge other because they sin differently than you.

Being Weird

Yeah. 

I'm WEIRD. 

(W)onderful, 

(E)xciting, 

(I)nteresting, 

(R)eal, 

(D)ifferent.

— Billy, age 4.

When someone loves you, 

the way they say 

your name 

is different. 

You just know 

that your name 

is safe 

in their 

mouth.

Be Be Be

Hurt

This is hurt on a whole different level

(river flows in you)

i wish that life was different

— Chuck Palahniuk

“You’re a different human being to everybody you meet.”

— Unknown

“Do you ever think about all the people who you might have fallen in love with if only you’d taken a different way home or stood a little longer in the bread aisle at the supermarket? All the people who might have been an integral part of your life but instead you’ll never know them. The unimaginable impact that our mundane choices have on our lives really gets to me. Think of how many times I might have died if I’d made different choices. Maybe I’d be homeless. Maybe I’d be famous. Maybe I’d be rich. Sometimes I’m so overwhelmed by the impact of my choices that I can’t choose anything at all because I’m afraid today will be the day that I make the choice that changes everything.”

bye-bye!

  Beneath the surface, people are often quite different then they seem.

15 000

“The greatest illusion in this world is 

the illusion of separation. Things you 

think are separate and different are 

actually one and the same.” 

— Guru Pathik

You can erase someone

You can 

erase someone 

from your mind, 

but 

getting them 

out of your heart 

is a whole 

different story.