05.22.12 /02:26/♥ 87781

You know, sometimes all you need is 20 seconds of insane courage. Just literally 20 seconds of just embarassing bravery. And I promise you, something great will come of it.

~   Benjamin Mee, “We Bought a Zoo” 
05.22.12 /02:25/♥ 24

There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars.

~   Jack Kerouac, On the Road
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Start anywhere, follow it everywhere

~   from Walk Out, Walk On
04.11.12 /17:10/♥ 9

I think part of the reason I’m attracted to him is because he’s such a mess. I mean, the people I have loved in my life have never been easy to love. I’m not used to normal. I’m used to disaster. I don’t know, as messed up as he is, he’s also sort of exciting, sort of a challenge. I’m accustomed to working for love.

~   Augusten Burroughs
04.11.12 /16:40/♥ 83

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

~   Friedrich Nietzsche
04.11.12 /16:40/♥ 130

The Dalai Lama, when asked what surprised him most about humanity, answered “Man. Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived.

04.11.12 /16:40/♥ 44

It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for, and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s longing. It doesn’t interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love, for your dream, for the adventure of being alive. It doesn’t interest me what planets are squaring your moon. I want to know if you have touched the center of your own sorrow, if you have been opened by life’s betrayals or have become shriveled and closed from fear of further pain. I want to know if you can sit with pain, mine or your own, without moving to hide it or fade it, or fix it.

~   Oriah Mountain Dreamer
04.09.12 /16:15/♥ 2

I always said I’d be happier alone. I’d have my work, my friends - but someone in your life all the time? More trouble than it’s worth. Apparently, I got over it.There’s a reason I said I’d be happy alone. It wasn’t ‘cause I thought I’d be happy alone. It was because I thought if I loved someone and then it fell apart, I might not make it. It’s easier to be alone. Because what if you learn that you need love and then you don’t have it? What if you like it and lean on it? What if you shape your life around it and then it falls apart? Can you even survive that kind of pain? Losing love is like organ damage. It’s like dying. The only difference is death ends. This? It could go on forever.

~   Meredith Grey
04.09.12 /16:06/♥ 121

It’s strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words.

~   T.S. Eliot
04.09.12 /16:06/♥ 61

Those who fail to exhibit positive attitudes, no matter the external reality, are seen as maladjusted and in need of assistance. Their attitudes need correction. Once we adopt an upbeat vision of reality, positive things will happen. This belief encourages us to flee from reality when reality does not elicit positive feelings. These specialists in ‘happiness’ have formulated something they call the ‘Law of Attraction.’ It argues that we attract those things in life, whether it is money, relationships or employment, which we focus on. Suddenly, abused and battered wives or children, the unemployed, the depressed and mentally ill, the illiterate, the lonely, those grieving for lost loved ones, those crushed by poverty, the terminally ill, those fighting with addictions, those suffering from trauma, those trapped in menial and poorly paid jobs, those whose homes are in foreclosure or who are filing for bankruptcy because they cannot pay their medical bills, are to blame for their negativity. The ideology justifies the cruelty of unfettered capitalism, shifting the blame from the power elite to those they oppress. And many of us have internalized this pernicious message, which in times of difficulty leads to personal despair, passivity and disillusionment.

~   Chris Hedge
04.09.12 /16:06/♥ 39

I do not mind that you are a girl, but the main thing is that you yourself do not mind. There is no reason for it.

~   Einstein’s Advice to a Little Girl Who Wants to Be a Scientist
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