February 2009
8 posts
“Although I have felt compelled to write things down since I was five years old,...”
– Joan Didion (via furrowedbrow) (via alohanico) (via buyhercandy) (via singlescoop) (via breathsoftruth)
“I don’t want to be somebody’s crush. If somebody likes me, I want them to like...”
– The Perks of Being a Wallflower (via overflowing) (via maddieness) (via breathsoftruth)
“There is a point to be made about language. He never said the word ‘terrorism’...”
– Chris Matthews (via soupsoup) (via twothirty)
“Terrorism is a tactic, not an enemy.” - Eugene Robinson
(via danielholter) (via robot-heart-politics)
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“Do you know what happens when you hurt people? When you hurt people, they begin...”
– the god of small things. (via iguessthatscool) (via unicornology)(via catskills) (via bon-bon) (via breathsoftruth)
“If nothing else, one day you can look someone straight in the eyes and say
“But...”
– I Wrote This For You (via neverreallyready) (via jaim) (via breathsoftruth)
“And you know for the first time, for the very first time, that there will now be...”
– Unknown (via enamour) (via pretty-bird) (via earthquakesandheartache) (via 52hearts) (via finallyseeing) (via breathsoftruth)
“I guess I could be really pissed off about what happened to me, but it’s hard to...”
– Kevin Spacey, American Beauty (via thoughtsdetained) (via breathsoftruth)
“When I was a girl, my life was music that was always getting louder. Everything...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
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November 2008
8 posts
“In absurdist experience, suffering is individual. But from the moment when a...”
– Albert Camus, The Rebel (via sailingonthesea)
“one day, you fall for this boy and he touches you with his fingers and he burns...”
“Never have I felt so raw and vulnerable and pathetic and desperate and alone. I...”
“I think the biggest disease the world suffers from in this day and age is the...”
“The biggest disease this day and age is that of people feeling unloved....”
“We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The...”
“The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved....”
“Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a...”
October 2008
89 posts
“Anytime you sincerely want to make a change the first thing you must do is to...”
– Tony Robbins (via ladysadie) (via sarahchristine) (via sailingonthesea)
“I have labelled myself as an anti-feminist feminist, and I think it suits me...”
– Björk - Winter Oyster 1995 (via antoinetta) (via paperflowers) (via sailingonthesea)
“It’s a wonder I haven’t abandoned all my ideals, they seem so absurd and...”
– Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl (via sailingonthesea)
“I want to be remembered as the girl who always smiles even when her heart is...”
– Anon. (via jeralyndwile) (via sailingonthesea)
“If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who...”
– JFK (via azspot) (via jeralyndwile) (via sailingonthesea)
“A woman should be able to kiss a man beautifully and romantically without any...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald (via iloveyoubest) (via sailingonthesea)
Chuck Klosterman, Killing Yourself To Live
sailingonthesea:
Don’t ever cheat on someone. I’m serious. It’s not worth it. And I’m not saying this because cheating is morally wrong, because some people have a very specific version of morality that doesn’t necessarily classify actions as right or wrong. The reason you should never cheat on someone is because you won’t enjoy it. No matter which person you’re with, you’ll always be thinking of...
“Nobody knows what you want except you. And nobody will be as sorry as you if you...”
– Lillian Hellman (via onherway) (via sailingonthesea)
“There’s always a moment when you start to fall out of love, whether it’s with a...”
– Douglas Adams (via jennyjennjen) (via lenachen) (via sailingonthesea)
“In Greek ‘nostalgia’ literally means ‘the pain from an old wound.’ It’s a twing...”
– Don Drapper (via annamarie) (via sailingonthesea)
“Well,” said Pooh, “what I like best — ” and then he had to stop and think....”
– A.A. Milne (via into) (via lavenderlines) (via sailingonthesea)
“But before everyone gets all smug and self-righteous about the Palin selection,...”
– Michael Moore on Sarah Palin (via unburyingthelead) (via robot-heart) (via sarahchristine) (via sailingonthesea)
“What people are ashamed of normally makes a good story.”
– Fitzgerald, The Last Tycoon (via nightmarebrunette, whateverlolawants, mathewparkin) (via luxuriousvulgarity) (via sailingonthesea)
sailingonthesea:
robot-heart:
dhk:claytoncubitt:
But I like to think that anyone can change. Stop voting for people you want to have a beer with. Stop voting for folksy. Stop voting for people who remind you of your neighbor. Stop voting for the ideologically intransigent, the staggeringly ignorant, and the blazingly incompetent.
Vote for someone smarter than you. Vote for someone who...
“The U.S. will never lose its superpower status. We’re like Paul McCartney. Our...”
– Stephen Colbert (via sailingonthesea)
Grading Bar Too High, Loudoun Parents Say →
sailingonthesea:
marco:
(via cowsandmilk)
The Fairgrade group is seeking to lower the Fairfax school system’s cutoff for an A from 94 points to 90 on a 100-point scale, arguing that the higher bar hurts competitiveness in college admissions and scholarships.
Parents are nuts.
Every teacher and administrator is already aware of the growing problem of “grade inflation”. Average GPAs have...
“Ignorant politicians are elected by ignorant people. US education, like the US...”
– Geroge Monbiot, in the Guardian (via ngoc)(via vruz)(via apsies) (via robot-heart) (via sailingonthesea)
marjchun:
unicornology:
i understand.
rgeissler:
stare-at-walls:
I just want someone to ask me how I am and really want to know how I really feel. Not to be asked as some sort of springboard for conversation. I’m suddenly so tired of being there for everyone—I suddenly feel like no one wanted to ever be there for me.
“Wherever you go, go with all your heart.”
– Confucius (via thresca) (via carmenmariah) (via marjchun)
“Love is not about the words. For example, les Américaines, they say ‘I love you’...”
– Paulina Porizkova, A Model Summer (via sailingonthesea) (via unicornology) (via marjchun)
“When you’re a teenager and in your early twenties [love] seems desperately...”
– Morrissey (via sailingonthesea) (via unicornology) (via marjchun)
“I’ve been single for seven years and as I get older, I think all I want is to be...”
– Alec Baldwin (via jessicap) (via sailingonthesea) (via unicornology)
amen…
(via marjchun)
There's Nothing Worse Than Too Late
marjchun:
theexfiles:
megg:
there are worse things than being alone but it often takes decades to realize this and most often when you do it's too late and there's nothing worse than too late. - Bukowski
(jaim, notmyself43)
There's Nothing Worse Than Too Late
marjchun:
theexfiles:
megg:
there are worse things than being alone but it often takes decades to realize this and most often when you do it's too late and there's nothing worse than too late. - Bukowski
(jaim, notmyself43)
“A POET’S ADVICE (By ee cummings)
A real human is somebody who feels and who...”
– (via thewilliambeckett)
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“The answer is that you never, ever, rely on another person for your peace of...”
– Armistead Maupin, More Tales of the City (via into) (via unicornology) (via jessperation) (via laceymae) (via marjchun)
“The answer is that you never, ever, rely on another person for your peace of...”
– Armistead Maupin, More Tales of the City (via into) (via unicornology) (via jessperation) (via laceymae) (via marjchun)
“Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are...”
– J.D. Salinger (via align) (via marjchun)
marjchun:
rsimons:
“Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”
- Albert Einstein
“Memories are choking my mind today… Words fail, life fails, God fails.
When you...”
– Unknown. (via justlia) (via marjchun)
“There are times, I wonder what’s the most powerful emotion - love, lust, greed,...”
– Someone I know. (via justlia) (via laceymae) (via marjchun)
“This is pretty much what journals are all about, at least to me. I knew as I...”
– Colleen Wainwright (via thresca) (via justlia) (via marjchun)
“And the next morning, something kind of amazing happened. The sun came out...”
– Gabe (Little Manhattan) (via thresca)
“what i am to you is not real. what i am to you, you do not need. what i am to...”
– damien rice - volcano. (via jaim) (via breathsoftruth) (via thresca)