December 2009
I wanted to tell her that sometimes there doesn’t even have to be a reason. I knew from experience that no matter how much you turn things in your head, trying to make sense of them, some people just defy all logic.
And it’s hard to be a human being and it’s harder as anything else and I’m lonesome when you’re around and I’m never lonesome when I’m by myself and I miss you when you’re around.
You know that point in your life when you realize that the house that you grew up isn’t really your home anymore? All of the sudden even though you have some place where you can put your stuff. That idea of home is gone. It just sort of happens one day & it’s just gone. & you can never get it back. It’s like you get homesick for a place that doesn’t exist. I mean,...
“The most beautiful people are those who have known defeat, known suffering,...”
– Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
“Maybe we should develop a crayola bomb as our next secret weapon. A happiness...”
– Robert Fulghum
“yeah, it’s cute when people who have a lot in common date each other. but I prefer somebody i can argue with & in the end, agree to disagree, & then make out … really, why date yourself?”
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I envy you. You haven’t had time to mess things up. You and him, are just getting to know each other. The whole start of a relationship is so giddy and you’re just, like, completely into that person and everything they say is meaningful and funny and you feel like you’re the only two people in the world. God, I really miss that.
Of course what I think is boring must not be the same as what other people think is, since I could never stand to watch all the most popular action shows on TV, because they’re essentially the same plots and the same shots and the same cuts over and over again. Apparently, most people love watching the same basic thing, as long as the details are different. But I’m just the opposite:...
John: The first time we met, what was your first thought? Jane: You tell me. John: I thought…I thought you looked like Christmas morning. I don’t know how to say it. Jane: Why are you telling me this now? John: I guess in the end, you get to thinking about the beginning. So there it is, I thought you should know. -Mr. and Mrs. Smith
Sometimes you just feel everything & nothing all at once. Sometimes you’ll find yourself smiling while missing someone at the same time, at times you can absolutely love a person all the while wanting to hate them; life comes without guarantees. Except that smiling will brighten your face, laughing will enhance your eyes & falling in love will change your life.
“Perhaps they are not stars, but rather openings in heaven
where the love of our...”
– Eskimo Proverb
My generation was weaned on subliminal advertising, stupid television, slasher movies, insipid grocery store literature, MTV, VCRs, fast food, infomercials, glossy ads, diet aids, plastic surgery, a pop culutre wherein the hyper-cool, blank-eyes supermodel was a hero. This is the intellectual and emotional equivalent of eating nothing but candy bars - you get nourished and tired. We grew up in a...
People who’ve been to hell and back develop a certain sort of self-righteousness. There is a tendency to say: I have an addictive personality, I am terribly sensitive, I’m touched with fire, I have scars. There is a self-perpetuating belief that one simply cannot help it and this is very dangerous. It becomes an identity in and of itself. It becomes its own religion and you wait for...
“Those awful things are survivable, because we are as indestructible as we...”
– John Green
“People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings most of...”
– Jim Morrison
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, & the wisdom to know the difference.
“Your heart just breaks, that’s all. But you can’t judge or point...”
– Audrey Hepburn
“Weight isn’t important the way the magazines
make you think it is. I know a...”
– Andy Warhol
and you will find no fear here, in unkind words or the hardness of others. and you will find no sadness here, in the meanness of the world, in the anger that comes from those who feel small. and you will find no hurt here, in a million insults or a single, softly spoken lie. because only a hard heart shatters. only a hard heart, breaks.
Life is the ability to feel so happy, you think your insides are going to explode. It’s being so upset or disappointed, you feel as if your stomach just dropped ten feet out of place. It’s running so hard, you can barely breathe. It’s the feeling of panic when you know you’ve been caught doing something wrong. It’s having that sudden rush before you kiss someone you...
You deserve the right kind of love, the kind of love that makes you happy, the fantastic love that’s in books and movies. Even if you aren’t together forever, you’ll want to look back & never regret falling in love with him. That’s the kind of love we all deserve.
“What is the meaning of life? That was all—a simple question; one that...”
– Virginia Woolf
“you can choose to be happy or sad and
whichever you choose, that is what you...”
– Sidney Madweed
“Santa Claus has the right idea;
visit people only once a year.”
– Victor Borge