October 2010
2 posts
Everything is fine. Not finAL. →
Nothing is final. One day you’re high. The next day you’re low. You might have a funky, expressive, or awful haircut today, but soon it will grow into something else, something new and random. Maybe you grew up liking pop music and boy bands, but now you like a specific mash up of Electronic & Classical. You might decide you don’t want to smoke cigarettes anymore; that it’s just not who you...
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Seconds Before the Launch →
This isn’t me missing you. This is me missing the me I used to be. This isn’t me.
September 2010
1 post
“I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect....”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald (via quotewhore)
December 2009
1 post
October 2009
9 posts
“No partner in a love relationship…should feel that he has to give up an...”
– May Sarton
consistency of character
“Your photography is a record of your living, for anyone who really sees.”
– Paul Strand (via kari-shma) (via quote-book)
“I wish the whole day were like breakfast, when people are still connected to...”
– Peter Cameron (Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You) (via bemyjelly)
September 2009
10 posts
“People, in other words, need people: We are the glue holding ourselves together.”
– Jonah Lehrer, The Buddy System (via psychotherapy)
“Summer always feels endless until it suddenly ends…September is the Monday of...”
– Jeff Scher, in “Summer Retreat” for New York Times’ The Animated Life blog (via britticisms) (via beautifulordinaire) (via verbadjectivenoun) (via quote-book)
“The need to find meaning … is as real as the need for trust and for love, for...”
– Margaret Mead (via psychotherapy)
the next great revelation.
jenna2step:
I’m sorry if I sound distant sometimes, like I’m slowly drifting into my own mind- folding in on myself like a black hole swallows everything in it’s path and then in a final transcendent moment, disappears. The truth is, I’m just trying to get a handle on my moods and the way they flicker on and off like that lamppost that sits outside the front of my house.
I wish I could pound my...
August 2009
20 posts
Free personality analysis from ColorQuiz.com. Generated on Sun, 30 Aug 2009 10:30:50 -0700
Your Existing Situation
Desires to be respected by others in order to gain their trust and support for her own personal gain.
Your Stress Sources
Looking to stand out in the crowd and wanting to keep her rank and status. her current situation is irritating her because she can’t seem to find...
Word of the day:
gen·u·ine Pronunciation: \ˈjen-yə-wən, -(ˌ)win, ÷-ˌwīn\ Function: adjective Etymology: Latin genuinus innate, genuine; akin to Latin gignere to beget Date: circa 1639 1 a : actually having the reputed or apparent qualities or character <genuine vintage wines> b : actually produced by or proceeding from the alleged source or author <the signature is genuine> c : sincerely and...
I’m not ready to confront I’d rather...
“By marrying too soon, many individuals sacrifice their chance to struggle...”
– Augustus Napier, The Family Crucible (via psychotherapy)
“We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
– Anais Nin, accidentally encapsulating the driving theory behind cognitive behavioral therapy: the idea that our own thoughts make our lives what they are, that we see things through our own filters and that, if we can adjust those filters somewhat, we can adjust - quite literally - how we...
“We must be our own before we can be another’s.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via reluctantbuddha) (via quote-book)
“Drink life as it comes.
Straight.
No chaser.”
– (via iamblessed) (via borgomani) (via quote-book)
So fathers be good to your daughters... →
The authors studied 78 teens and young adults (average age 19), who reported on the quality of their relationship with their fathers and their current boyfriends. Three specific relationship domains were examined, namely: communication, trust, and time spent with their boyfriends/fathers.
The results:
Girls with good communication with their fathers also had significantly better communication...
“We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension,...”
– Anais Nin (via psychotherapy)
“And you taught me what this feels like.
And then how it feels to lose it.
And...”
– I Wrote This For You (via quotewhore)
some thoughts need air
jenna2step:
likelava:
sometimes i want to just drive, even when i have no where to go. and sometimes i just want to leave —especially when i have no where to go.
“There comes a time in every life when the world gets quiet and the only thing...”
– Sarah Dessen, Just Listen (via quotewhore) (via belowutopia) (via lovebot)
“Summer is fading.
I will miss the way the sun
paints your skin with light.”
– Daily Haiku on Love by Tyler Knott Gregson (via tylerknott) (via quote-book)
“Beware of the word friend. It can often be used by men or the women that love...”
– He’s Just Not That Into You (via quotewhore)
“Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.”
– Arthur Christopher Benson (via quote-book)
July 2009
11 posts
“Love is saying ‘I feel differently’ instead of ‘You’re wrong.”
– Unknown ? (via kari-shma) (via quote-book)
“You can never tell what people are thinking and feeling unless they tell you,...”
– Unknown (via thresca)
“Life doesn’t give you a second canvas. So all you can do is paint on. And,...”
– [via: I wrote this for you] (via kari-shma) (via quote-book)
“The little things,sometimes they’re worth so much more
than what they seem....”
– ~ Unsung Zeros (via gatekeeper)
“The best smell in the world is that man that you love.”
– Jennifer Aniston (via neonsugar) (via quote-book)