January 2012
6 posts
“No one said it would be easy.” No one said anything would ever be. In fact, almost everything is difficult. There’s a catch. There are consequences. Changing yourself, for example, necessarily results in the change of others, the change of the world around you.
It’s like dropping a stone into the pristinely-smooth surface of a lake and seeing the sky’s reflection...
December 2011
2 posts
Thoughts. Expectations. Judgments. They can rule your life if you’re not careful. They can control your every move, your every word, your every breath. But they’re nothing more than ideas…just glimpses of a world of perfection. Utopia is a dream, but nothing more. Sometimes you have to give up the dream to see the beauty that is reality and all of its impeccable imperfections.
…Sometimes...
November 2011
2 posts
Sometimes, even when the weight is gone...you can...
October 2011
2 posts
September 2011
11 posts
1 tag
I can break my own heart fine without you.
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“Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (via suzywire)
1 tag
“My haters are my motivators.”
– Nicki Minaj
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I want to smile without forcing my lips to curve....
Do you ever feel like you’re hazardous in some way? As if, because you’re sad, you can’t be around happy people…because maybe you’ll infect them and bring them down to the point where you now stand alone.
I feel that way all the time.
As a candle lights the darkness, I feel that the darkness inside of me might cast a shadow upon all those in the light…all...
August 2011
2 posts
1 tag
“If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.”
– Emily Dickinson (via misswallflower)
July 2011
2 posts
Seems like the only person you can't get to smile...
June 2011
15 posts
Who is the judge?
Plato said that “beauty is in the eye of the beholder.” If that’s true, then America has one, mysterious beholder that spreads his thoughts through the minds of all citizens. We spend our lives seeking perfection, whether that be money, lifestyle, family, friends or appearance. We spend our lives critiquing ourselves, convinced that we can always do just a...
You give yourself a price. You put the $ amount around your neck when you choose what you are worth. It is your call if you take a bargain, if you let someone alter the cost just to save a few bucks. You choose who deserves to take you home with them. You. Only you. Don’t let someone else make that decision. I can tell you right now that no one deserves to be set out on the driveway with...
The only expectations that matter are your own.
Love stories make me sad, not because I'm...
“To have no yesterday, and no to-morrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be...”
– Sylvia Plath
“You are strong.”
…even when others put you down, climb onto your shoulders to get ontop, call you names that make you crumble on the inside.
“You are strong.”
…even when the world laughs in your face, tears your dreams apart and scatters the pieces in the wind.
“You are strong.”
…even when it seems that nothing’s going right, that...
why would you see me in a world that all about...
May 2011
15 posts
Skipping a Beat.
Every octopus has three hearts. Imagine if we all had three beating muscles inside our chests, strengthening our pulse by three. Would be able to handle more pain and stress? Could we take more risks in relationships, believing that if we broke one heart, we’d have two to back it up? Would having two extra hearts give us greater freedom or greater responsibility? Would we be able to live more...
“Porthos dreams of being a bear, and you want to shatter those dreams by saying...”
– Johnny Depp, as J.M. Barrie in Finding Neverland. (via owlssayhooot)
“Many a false step is made by standing still.”
– Fortune Cookie Saying, Lottery Ticket (via thoughtsdetained)
Do you ever think about objects in your house? The telephone, the walls, the lamps and window shades… and if they had minds or memories, maybe they’d remember events, conflicts, catastrophes that took place in your home? Maybe they saw you hiding in the corner, crying until your eyes shined like marble. Maybe they listened to the words that rained down on you like falling arrows in a...
In some ways, life is very much a series of stages. We pass through many stages of growth and learning, through those of confusion and loss…sometimes, however, it feels that some stages last much longer than others. I feel as if I’ve been stuck, like a fly in amber, in the same place for most of my life. loneliness, isolation, hopelessness. when will it stop? when can I move past this...