February 2011
“I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent...”
– Robert Fulghum (All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten)
January 2011
“I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in...”
– Henry David Thoreau (Walden: Or, Life in the Woods)
“Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state...”
– Daphne Du Maurier (via kari-shma)
“He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up.”
– Paul Keating (via sittingontheringsofsaturn)
6 tags
“Waking up alive is reason enough to spread love to any and all you meet...”
– (via random-acts-of-kindness)
What the last six months have taught me about...
It has been said that time heals all wounds. In theory, this is absolutely true. You skin your knee, and in a week or so it heals. The problem I have with this statement is that it is applied to the wounds inflicted by the loss of someone you loved. Wounds like this, I’m sorry to say, are not healed by time alone. When I think of those that I lost this year, I still miss them as much as the...
ir·ri·ta·ble
–adjective1.easily irritated or annoyed; readily excited to impatience or anger. I guess this is my word of the day. I’m starting to feel really stressed out about going abroad, and my dad’s incessant questions about things are not making me feel any better. On top of all the visa stuff, and flights, and making sure I pay my taxes and pay for school here before I leave, now I have to...
You're the other side of the world to me
I can’t believe that I’m going to Australia in a month. I’ve been having dreams about it a lot lately…going to the airport, forgetting my luggage, getting there and then not being able to find anything…the typical nervous dream stuff I guess. I honestly didn’t expect to be nervous, but I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t. The realities of being away from...
“Time stands still best in moments that look suspiciously like ordinary life.”
– Brian Andreas (via julie911)
“I love Grey’s Anatomy more than most things in life…
A wise man...”
– Grey Anatomy (Season 2, Episode 24) (via Safari Poet)
“Before you can inspire with emotion, you must be swamped with it yourself....”
– Winston Churchill - (via biancaarenee)
woahitsamber asked: your back! Your back!
woahitsamber asked: your back! Your back!
To a new year
A new year, a new beginning. This last one changed me forever, so I hope the new one is a little more gentle. I have more resolutions than I can count, but the most important one is to be open. Open to everything…experiences, people, feelings, open to it all. I’m done putting up walls. If 2010 taught me anything it was that every moment of life is precious. I am resolved to appreciate...