February 2012
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“Remember that at any given moment there are a thousand things you can love.”
– David Levithan, The Realm of Possibility (via bookmania)
“Life’s hard. It’s supposed to be. If we didn’t suffer, we’d never learn...”
– Jesse (Before Sunset, 2004)
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“Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another.”
– Walter Elliott
The New Yorker: Poem to Daniel Pearl →
newyorker:
Note: A couple of weeks ago, I spent some time in Los Angeles with the parents of Daniel Pearl, a brilliant and courageous reporter for the Wall Street Journal who, ten years ago this month, was kidnapped and slaughtered by terrorists in Pakistan. At the time of his death, Danny’s wife, Mariane, was pregnant with their son. In the videotape that the terrorists forced Danny to make...
“Sleep is still most perfect, in spite of hygienists, when it is shared with a...”
– D. H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers (via bookmania)
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“This morning, with her, having coffee.”
– Johnny Cash, when asked for his definition of paradise. + (via moonandmoon)
intellichick note: This reflects how simple I would want someone to describe being with me.
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“If I were President or the First Lady, that would be the headline all the time.”
– Me after seeing a headline about First Lady Obama wearing a $40 Jason Wu for Target dress
“Some people bring out the worst in you, others bring out the best, and then...”
– Karen Marie Moning (via loveyourchaos)
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"If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't...
pianoacrossamerica:
—Gail Sheehy
I know too many people that have become too comfortable with their lives and their jobs. Its so important to be able to break free from responsibilities at some point in your life and just to be, to feel what life is like without a constant source telling you which direction to go.
“No one ever stopped when they were winning.”
– Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms (via bookmania)
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“Supposing you have tried and failed again and again. You may have a fresh start...”
– Mary Pickford (via kari-shma)
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“…he had been lonely most of his life and didn’t like the public show...”
– Overheard at the cafe in the Guggenheim
“It seems to me that the intellectualization and aestheticizing of principles and...”
– David Foster Wallace (via walkwhilereading)
“Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via kari-shma)