“Hearts may break, but hearts are the toughest of muscles, able to pump for a lifetime, seventy times a minute, and scarcely falter along the way. Even dreams, the most delicate and intangible of things, can prove remarkably difficult to kill.”
—Neil Gaiman - Fragile Things
June 2013
5 posts
“
It’s said it takes seven years
to grow completely new skin cells.
To think, this year I will grow
into a body you never will
have touched.
“When someone is crying, of course, the noble thing to do is to comfort them. But if someone is trying to hide their tears, it may also be noble to pretend you do not notice them.”
—Lemony Snicket
“I am very much in love with no one in particular.”
—Ezra Miller
“You know how they say you only hurt the ones you love? Well, it works both ways.”
—Chuck Palahniuk - Fight Club
May 2013
10 posts
“Nothing in this life will ever make sense to me but I can’t help but try to collect the change and hope it’s enough to pay for our mistakes.”
—
Tahereh Mafi - Unravel Me
“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby
“If there’s one thing I’ve learned, it’s this: We all want everything to be okay. We don’t even wish so much for fantastic or marvelous or outstanding. We will happily settle for okay, because most of the time, okay is enough.”
—David Levithan - Every Day
“The only thing I know is this: I am full of wounds and still standing on my feet.”
—Nikos Kazantzakis
“Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on.”
—Eckhart Tolle
“We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.”
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“Be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here.”
—Desiderata - Max Ehrmann
“Loneliness does not come from having no people around you, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to you.”
—Carl Jung
“I find pieces of myself everywhere, and I cut myself handling them.”
—Jeanette Winterson - Lighthousekeeping
“The person may have a scar, but it also means they have a story”
—Jodi Picoult - The Storyteller
April 2013
8 posts
“There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.”
—Laurell K. Hamilton - Mistral’s Kiss
“Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald
“But if a mirror ever makes
you sad
you should know
that it does
not know
you” —Kabir
you sad
you should know
that it does
not know
you” —Kabir
“We are made to persist. That’s how we find out who we are.”
—Tobias Wolff
“Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.”
—Buddha
