February 2010
67 posts
“All I know is this: nobody’s very big in the first place, and it looks to me...”
– Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (via psychotherapy) (via quote-book)
I was never used to having my parents make my decisions for me. I lived away from them for ten years and was used to being independent and making my own decisions. I know that the Bible says I should obey my parents, which is why I have started going home at the time that they want me to go home. It is a bit weird for me that I have to start going home before ten o’clock when all my life they...
“I know what it is to not feel like you’re in the room until he looks at you or...”
– Ps. I Love You (via runawaytrain)
“A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough...”
– Herm Albright (via writingsarah) (via quote-book)
“Books may well be the only true magic.”
– Alice Hoffman (via kari-shma) (via quote-book)
January 2010
107 posts
“Do you ever just get that feeling where you don’t wanna talk to anybody? You...”
– Anonymous (via flairey)
“You’re not a bad person because you want to be yourself.”
– Jodi Picoult, My Sister’s Keeper (via quote-book)
“It isn’t really important to decide when you are very young just exactly what...”
– This just about sums up the way I make my decisions on my life. Anyway, I know Someone’s looking after me. :)
Five emotions that only have names in particular...
Some emotional states only have names in particular languages.
Fiero (Italian): contented pride in achieving something just for oneself.
Amae (Japanese): the sweet feeling of being dependent on someone else.
Naches (Yiddish): the glow of proud pleasure that only a child can give to its parents.
Schadenfreude (German): the feeling you experience when you learn that your worst enemy has suffered...
“And sometimes she forgets that not too long ago, she swore she wasn’t...”
– Sometimes She Forgets, Travis Tritt
“Wherever you will ever be, you’re never getting rid of me. You own me....”
– Lucky You, The National
From California - The New Amsterdams
Uncommon amount of the time at home, hardly a word on the telephone.
Finally find the time to get to know you.
Still mapping it out like a master plan, something to do with my idle hands.
Write you a letter addressed from California.
It’s vivid and strong in my memory, an absence that smacks of abandoning.
It led to the battle that ultimately destroyed us.
I’m nothing if I don’t know your...
“Sometimes planes, they smash up in the sky, and sometimes lonely hearts, they...”
“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”
– Jack Kerouac (The Dharma Bums) (via quote-book)
“Hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what he already has?”
– Romans 8:24
“I’m sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could...”
– J.D. Salinger (via quote-book)
“Well, that idea might make a stupid idea feel better about itself.”
– Emerson Cod, Pushing Daisies
“Everyone wants stuff. We wake up every day with a list of wishes a mile long and...”
– Ned the Piemaker, Pushing Daisies
“We shouldn’t be here at all, if we’d known more about it before we...”
– Samwise Gamgee, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
J.R.R. Tolkien
“She wasn’t bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The...”
– The Perks of Being a Wallflower (via runawaytrain)
“If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate...”
– Sydney J Harris
(Submitted by: theinspirationtree )
(via quote-book)
“Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.”
– Oscar Wilde
Submitted by: iztothezee
(via quote-book)
“All you need is faith, trust, and pixie dust.”
– Peter Pan (submitted by colorful-rain) (via quote-book)
“I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look, or the words, which laid the...”
– Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
“Tell God all that is in your heart, as one unloads one’s heart, its...”
– Francois Fenelon
“Stars got tangled in her hair whenever she played in the sky.”
– Laini Taylor (via julie911) (via quote-book)
“You deserve more than the world would ever be able to give you, but I hope that...”
“What’s great about knowing? When you lift up a rock, do you find whipped...”
– Ned, Pushing Daisies
“Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of...”
– Stephen King (via quote-book)
“Whenever you did something because “life is too short not to,” you...”
“For me, happiness occurs arbitrarily: a moment of eye contact on a bus, where...”
– Russell Brand, My Booky Wook. (via quote-book)
“Everything we do is a choice. Oatmeal or cereal? Highway or side streets? Kiss...”
– Ned the Piemaker, Pushing Daisies