November 2009
95 posts
“We laughed and laughed, together and separately, out loud and silently, we were...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close (via quotewhore)
“Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and...”
“Blessed are those that can give without remembering and receive without...”
“At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person....”
“Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.”
– Seneca (via quotewhore)
“Let us remember that, as much has been given us, much will be expected from us,...”
– Theodore Roosevelt (via quotewhore) (via lifeasquotes)
“It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life...”
– Viktor Emil Frankl (via thechosenwords)
“…but better to be hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”
– Khaled Hosseini (The Kite Runner) (via kari-shma) (via lovebot)
“So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.”
– Paulo Coelho (via kari-shma) (via lovebot) (via lifeasquotes)
“There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we...”
– John Lennon (via kari-shma) (via quote-book) (via lifeasquotes)
“We…often add to our pain and suffering by being overly sensitive, over-reacting...”
– Tenzin Gyatso, The 14th Dalai Lama (via reluctantbuddha)
“Bear in mind that the wonderful things you learn in your schools are the work of...”
– Albert Einstein (via reluctantbuddha)
“Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche (via reluctantbuddha)
“Everybody keeps telling me how surprised they are with what I’ve done. But I’m...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via reluctantbuddha)
Maybe my favorite beatles song? definitely top...
eavesdropping @ the farmers market
woman in black: whatever happened to you two?
woman in purple: he fell in love with someone else. who was i to mess with something as cosmic as love.
“while love is common, true love is rare, and i believe that few people are...”
– -psychologist david buss author of the evolution of desire the best american nonrequired reading 2006
(via myonlyappeal)
(via cultivate-romance)
(via lifeasquotes)
i fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. and it’s these things i’d believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn’t all she should be. i love her and it is the beginning of everything. — f. scott fitzgerald
lifeasquotes:
cultivate-romance:
“whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”
– emily bronte - wuthering heights (via cultivate-romance) (via lifeasquotes)
...nothing works better than to have someone you...
interviewer: why can’t you be alone without yoko?
john lennon: but i can be alone without yoko, but i just have no wish to be. there’s no reason on earth why i should be alone without yoko. there’s nothing more important than our relationship, nothing. and we dig being together all the time. both of us could survive apart but what for? i’m not going to sacrifice love, real love for any whore or any friend or any business, because in the end you’re alone at night and neither of us want to be. and you can’t fill a bed with groupies. it doesn’t work. i don’t want to be a swinger. i’ve been through it all and nothing works better than to have someone you love hold you.
“Come away with me and we’ll kiss
On a mountaintop
Come away with me
And I’ll...”
– Come away with me, Norah Jones. (via kari-shma) (via quote-book) (via lovebot)
U2 | All i want is you
a beautiful wedding song
“And, in the end
The love you take
is equal to the love you make.”
– Paul McCartney (via kari-shma) (via quote-book) (via avajean) (via lovebot)
“I’ve never known a musician who regretted being one. Whatever deceptions life...”
– Virgil Thomson (via grace-notes)
myserendipities:
“How dull, how impossible life would be without dreams — waking dreams, I mean — the dreams that we call ‘castles in the air,’ built by the kindly hands of Hope! Were it not for the mirage of the oasis, drawing his footsteps ever onward, the weary traveler would lie down in the desert sand and die. It is the mirage of distant success, of happiness that, like the bunch of carrots...
“I am in love - and, my God, it is the greatest thing that can happen to a man. I...”
– D.H. Lawrence (via thechosenwords)
