I found this in an old LJ and its words seem to transcend the (FIVE FIVE FIVE OMG FIVE) years. “The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans are suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they’re okay, then it’s you.” –Rita Mae Brown. [...]
Posts Tagged ‘quotes’
dsm
Posted in find of the day, tagged quotes on July 15, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
true story
Posted in find of the day, tagged quotes on April 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
reminder
Posted in blog, tagged quotes on February 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Because if you don’t know how to write, to speak, to draw, to act, to express, then what’s the point? Reblogged from Personally
calling friends
Posted in blog, tagged quotes on February 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Reblogged from Personally I wish I had a camera and happy friends to take pictures of and emo sayings to photoshop in. Hint hint!
life quotes
Posted in blog, tagged quotes on January 26, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Dear Jessie, “In life you’ll meet a lot of jerks. If they hurt you, tell yourself that it’s because they’re stupid. That will help keep you from reacting to their cruelty. Because there is nothing worse than bitterness and vengeance… Always keep your dignity and be true to yourself.” – Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi AS A [...]
forgiveness
Posted in revelation, tagged quotes on January 23, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
“My ‘life’ will always be an edited version.” -Ciaran Benson, “Placing Oneself in Personal Time” Time passes by quickly. It gets harder to remember the smaller things–the time you spilled cereal milk on yourself, those few dollars you owe someone, those years that you thought Santa Claus was real (and worked through mysterious ways by [...]
minus bereaved
Posted in revelation, tagged quotes on January 19, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
“The urge explicitly to narrativise oneself in an effort to ‘take stock’ frequently occurs to when people are in deep personal pain, often bereaved, and desperately seeking to reassume control of their lives…” -Ciaran Benson, “Placing Oneself in Personal Time” in The Cultural Psychology of Self: Place, Morality, and Art in Human Worlds
are you okay
Posted in blog, find of the day, tagged quotes on November 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Here is some inspiration. And by inspiration I mean words strung together that should arouse some sort of inward action/reaction. Reblogged from Jessie: “When I get lonely these days, I think: So BE lonely. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human [...]
franny and zooey
Posted in favorites, tagged book, childhood, quotes on November 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
“I’m sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.” - Franny and Zooey, J.D. Salinger Me too. It’s been awhile since I’ve read the novel, which was one of the summer reading options assigned once upon a time in high school.* I remember a scene with Zooey** sitting in [...]
watercooler talk
Posted in favorites, tagged book, quotes on November 11, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Last night, I finished reading Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro but of course I had to reread the ending this morning for it all to sink in. I think, because I watched the movie first, that it was easier for me to imagine Kathy H. and Ruth and Tommy, together at Hailsham as [...]
