April 2012
38 posts
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“Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in...”
– Elbert Hubbard
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“Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of...”
– Siddhārtha Gautama
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“Whenever we crack open a book to read it, we are admitting the inadequacy of our...”
– C.S. Lewis
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“Remember, when you’re with me, it’s the only time you’re not...”
– Calista Flockheart, Ally McBeal
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“There comes a time in a man’s life when to get where he has to go—if...”
– Bernard Malamud
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“Your problem, my darling daughter, is that you’re afraid you’re...”
– Claire Cook, Life’s a Beach
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“I think perfection is ugly. Somewhere in the things humans make, I want to see...”
– Yohji Yamamoto
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“We are the girls with anxiety disorders, filled appointment books, five-year...”
– Courtney Martin (via searchingfor-peace)
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“In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.”
– Albert Camus (via thesearepeopleyouknow)
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“If your comfort comes at the cost of someone else’s discomfort, it is not...”
– Robert Brenton
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“The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.”
– Harry Golden
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“We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow...”
– Herman Melville
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“So you think you’re a failure, do you? Well, you probably are. What’s wrong with...”
– Tom Robbins, Even Cowgirls Get The Blues
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“Who has not loved twice? More than twice? Who has never broken a heart?”
– Annie Dillard, The Maytrees
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“We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.”
– Cynthia Ozick
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“Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement… get up in the morning and...”
– Abraham Joshua Heschel (via monsieurmademoiselle)
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“There’s plenty of days when I’m like ‘Oh God, why? But...”
– Beyonce Knowles
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“I love when it goes soft and even sometimes if there’s movement there’s a little...”
– Grace Coddington, The September Issue
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“There is a miracle in every new beginning.”
– Herman Hesse
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“It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get...”
– Zora Neale Hurston
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“Perhaps if we saw what was ahead of us, and glimpsed the follies, and...”
– Lemony Snicket
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“Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they’ve...”
– William James
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“Now she knows it won’t kill her. She can survive it. It won’t...”
– David Foster Wallace, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
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“In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.”
– Margaret Atwood (via scout)
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“Nothing to me feels as good as laughing incredibly hard.”
– Steve Carell
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“Life roars by you like a flood and you grab whatever looks like it will hold you...”
– Barbara Kingslover, The Poisonwood Bible
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“Reading is one form of escape. Running for your life is another.”
– Lemony Snicket
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“That’s the trouble I suppose in coming at people with honesty, some times...”
– Peter MacNicol, Ally McBeal
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“You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment unless...”
– Frank Crane
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“Energy and persistence conquer all things.”
– Benjamin Franklin
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“Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.”
– John Steinbeck
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“You know what the secret is? It’s so simple. We love one another....”
– Ann Brashares, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
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“Morning is an important time of day, because how you spend your morning can...”
– Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can’t Avoid
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“Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you...”
– Ovid
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“Whales have been evolving for thirty million years. To our one million. A sperm...”
– Cormac McCarthy, Of Whales and Men (via delicada)
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“There is no choice more intensely personal, after all, than whom you choose to...”
– Elizabeth Gilbert, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
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“Ugly is irrelevant. It is an immeasurable insult to a woman, and then supposedly...”
– Margaret Cho
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“On the girl’s brown legs there were many small white scars. I was...”
– Chris Cleave, Little Bee 