“Happiness is a choice, not a result. Nothing will make you happy until you choose to be happy. No person will make you happy unless you decide to be happy. Your happiness will not come to you. It can only come from you.”
—Ralph Marston
June 2013
3 posts
May 2013
3 posts
“Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people.”
—Andre Dubus
“I bet if we dusted her heart for fingerprints, we’d only find yours.”
—Rudy Francisco (via ontheedgeofdarkness)
“Do not settle for less than exactly what you want. Your heart’s desires are there for a reason. Chase them. Pursue them relentlessly. Do not lose sight of your goals. They are your very reason for being.”
—Franki Durbin
April 2013
3 posts
“When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps.”
—John Lennon
“Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive.”
—Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
March 2013
1 post
“I felt like crying but nothing came out. It was just a sort of sad sickness, sick sad, when you can’t feel any worse. I think you know it. I think everybody knows it now and then. But I think I have known it pretty often, too often.”
—Tales of Ordinary Madness, Charles Bukowski
February 2013
7 posts
I already said too much. I already shared too much, and I want all my secrets back. I hate getting close to people these days, I always regret sharing too much, caring too much, doing too much, feeling too much.
“I will remember the kisses
our lips raw with love
and how you gave me
everything you had
and how I
offered you what was left of
me,
and I will remember your small room
the feel of you
the light in the window
your records
your books
our morning coffee
our noons our nights
our bodies spilled together
sleeping
the tiny flowing currents
immediate and forever
your leg my leg
your arm my arm
your smile and the warmth
of you
who made me laugh
again.” —Charles Bukowski, “Raw With Love”
our lips raw with love
and how you gave me
everything you had
and how I
offered you what was left of
me,
and I will remember your small room
the feel of you
the light in the window
your records
your books
our morning coffee
our noons our nights
our bodies spilled together
sleeping
the tiny flowing currents
immediate and forever
your leg my leg
your arm my arm
your smile and the warmth
of you
who made me laugh
again.” —Charles Bukowski, “Raw With Love”
January 2013
2 posts
“Being honest may not get you a lot of friends but it’ll always get you the right ones”
—John Lennon
“If you love a flower, don’t pick it up.
because if you pick it up it dies and it ceases to be what you love.
So if you love a flower, let it be.
Love is not about possession.
Love is about appreciation.” —
because if you pick it up it dies and it ceases to be what you love.
So if you love a flower, let it be.
Love is not about possession.
Love is about appreciation.” —
December 2012
7 posts
“The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.”
—Ernest Hemingway
