My alone feels so good, I’ll only have you if you’re sweeter than my solitude.
– Warsan Shire https://twitter.com/warsan_shire
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/674591-my-alone-feels-so-good-i-ll-only-have-you-if
Nov 232013
Nov 222013
Though she be but little, she is fierce!
– William Shakespeare
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/101870-though-she-be-but-little-she-is-fierce
Nov 212013
You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living. Then you read a book… or you take a trip… and you discover that you are not living, that you are hibernating. The symptoms of hibernating are easily detectable: first, restlessness. The second symptom (when hibernating becomes dangerous and might degenerate into death): absence of pleasure. That is all. It appears like an innocuous illness. Monotony, boredom, death. Millions live like this (or die like this) without knowing it. They work in offices. They drive a car. They picnic with their families. They raise children. And then some shock treatment takes place, a person, a book, a song, and it awakens them and saves them from death. Some never awaken.
– Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/105928-you-live-like-this-sheltered-in-a-delicate-world-and
Nov 202013
“Well, look who I ran into,”
crowed Coincidence.
“Please,” flirted Fate, “this
was meant to be.”
– Joseph Gordon-Levitt, The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories, Vol. 1
Nov 192013
Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies within us while we live.
– Norman Cousins
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/41499-death-is-not-the-greatest-loss-in-life-the-greatest
Nov 182013
Life is short, break the rules (they were made to be broken)
Forgive quickly, kiss slowly
Love truly, laugh uncontrollably
And never regret anything that makes you smile.
The clouds are lined with silver and the glass is half full (though the answers won’t be found at the bottom)
Don’t sweat the small stuff,
You are who you are meant to be,
Dance as if no one’s watching,
Love as if it’s all you know,
Dream as if you’ll live forever,
Live as if you’ll die today.
– James Dean
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/273725-remember-life-is-short-break-the-rules-they-were-made
Nov 172013
Midway along the journey of our life
I woke to find myself in a dark wood,
for I had wandered off from the straight path.
– Dante, The Divine Comedy, first lines of Inferno, Robert and Jean Hollander translation
http://www.amazon.com/gp/richpub/syltguides/fullview/3FBY1GAQF7JIY