January 2009
20 posts
30 things to put you in an instant good mood:
hello-therelove:
pieceofmymind:
littlemiss:
From Glamour magazine<3. 1. Google your first head-over-heels summer love. Consider sending him an e-mail.
2. Get rid of some unhappiness: Let go of a grudge, forgive a slight, unload a worry.
3. Give dark nail polish the summer off. Yes, it’s edgy, but nothing beats looking down at 10 pretty pastels.
4. See The Bourne Ultimatum just for brainy...
You can be Loved
hello-therelove:
even if you are not perfect even if you don’t know the answer even if you are horribly confused even if you can’t make anyone feel better even if you don’t know how to make yourself well even if you made a mistake even if you don’t know how to be even if you are ashamed even if you are hopeless even if you don’t quite fit in even if you are scared even if you are lonely even if...
“Would you want to live in a refrigerator?”
– my mom, while explaining that Mrs. Buttersworth does not go in the fridge. (via hello-therelove)
“To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering, one must not love. But then, one...”
– Woody Allen (via hello-therelove)
“Our language is dead. No more heavy consonants and long vowels with soft...”
– I Wrote This For You (via hello-therelove)
I Love You More Than... →
(via hello-therelove)
“It’s okay to need each other. That’s what makes us strong. That’s what makes us...”
– (via hello-therelove)
“Human beings are funny. They long to be with the person they love but refuse to...”
– Sigmund Freud (via hello-therelove) (via spinninground)
Jack: Hey, you know what sucks?
Lindsey: vaccuums
Jack: Hey, you know what sucks in a metaphorical sense?
Lindsey: black holes
Jack: Hey, you know what just isn't cool?
Lindsey: lava?
Back when I was a child...
Blockbuster store. Interior, night. The present day. Me: Hi, I need Generations. Blockbuster Drone: Generations? Me: Star…Trek…Generations. Blockbuster Drone: Is that a movie? Me: Uh, no, It’s the name of my dog, have you seen him? Blockbuster Drone: (vacant stare) Me: Yeah it is a movie, A star trek movie. Blockbuster Drone: (taps a keyboard) No. Me: No? What does that mean? Are...
My Secret Superpower.
In the beginning, there was the cloud. It was odourless, colourless and deadly—Like a giant radioactive fart—and spread all over Europe. In the days and weeks after the disaster. It floated as far north as Sweden and as far west as France, and blanketed the landscape with 400 times more toxic dust that what fell on Hiroshima. In response to the fallout, most governments told their...
The life resume
RIDA IMRAN WONDERS IF HER LIFE SKILLS AND ACHIEVEMENTS ARE WORTHY OF A CV.
This resume is a life-long conundrum. From a young age we are advised to be humble and wise. “Don’t be snooty or haughty, too slick or too proud,” My nan would say. “Just be good and do it quietly.” As an impressionable tyke, this advice was well received. Then in charges adulthood, abruptly...
November 2008
136 posts
You will have stars...
spinninground:
“People have stars, but they aren’t the same. For travelers, the stars are guides. For other people, they’re nothing but tiny lights. And for still others, for scholars, they’re problems. For my businessman, they were gold. But all those stars are silent stars. You, though, you’ll have stars like nobody else.” “What do you mean?” “When you look up at the sky at night, since I’ll...
“… when someone blushes, doesn’t that mean “yes”?”
– The Little Prince (via spinninground)
The Notebook
spinninground:
“I am nothing special; just a common man with common thoughts, and I’ve led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten. But in one respect I have succeeded as gloriously as anyone who’s ever lived: I’ve loved another with all my heart and soul; and to me, this has always been enough.”
It’s a good movie.
spinninground:
whatson:
fred-wilson:
...
“If you live to be 100, I hope I live to be 100 minus 1 day, so I never have to...”
– Winnie the Pooh.
Winnie has some beautiful quotes, I love Winnie.
(via firstbreathaftercoma)
(via spinninground)
spinninground:
mascarah:
The Beatles - Here...
spinninground:
Frank Sinatra - The Way You...
spinninground:
Temptations - Build Me Up...
spinninground:
mascarah:
John Mayer - No Such...
“There are so many ways to be alive, but only one way to be dead.”
– Nicole Krauss, The History of Love (via poignant)
