Friday, 22 March 2013

  • even then, I knew.

    It's all in the view. That's what I mean about forever, too.

    For any one of us our forever could end in an hour, or a

    hundred years from now. You never know for sure, so

    you'd better make every second count.

     

     

     

    I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting

    almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go

    here, and where you are,

     

     

    I like flaws. I think they make things interesting

     

     

     

     

    I figured something out. The future is unpredictable.

     

     

     

    Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.
    Life is beauty, admire it.
    Life is a dream, realize it.
    Life is a challenge, meet it.
    Life is a duty, complete it.
    Life is a game, play it.
    Life is a promise, fulfill it.
    Life is sorrow, overcome it.
    Life is a song, sing it.
    Life is a struggle, accept it.
    Life is a tragedy, confront it.
    Life is an adventure, dare it.
    Life is luck, make it.
    Life is too precious, do not destroy it.
    Life is life, fight for it.

     

    I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only

    right thing to do

     

     

     

     

Saturday, 05 January 2013

  • if i could open my mouth, wide enough for a marching band to march out

     

    If I could open my mouth,

    wide enough for a marching band to march out. 

    they would make your name sing

     

     

     

    Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.

    Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

     

     

    Pay no attention to what the critics say.

    A statue has never been erected in honor of a critic. -Jean Sibelius

     

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    People are like stained-glass windows.

    They sparkle and shine when the sun is out,

    but when the darkness sets in their true beauty

    is revealed only if there is light from within. 

    -Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

     

    And eventually the sky did return and

    I was there outside in green.
    And I watched the world being reborn

    ‘till one a.m.
    So I thought I ’d let you know it was beautiful,

    slow dancing to tunes of Billie Holiday.
    The city looked wonderful that way

     

    And like I really deserve a chance to,
    Sit across the table,
    And tell you that I think you're wonderful.
    And I think you're something special.
    I guess this is my only chance to,
    Say I wish I knew you,
    Because I'm sure you're wonderful

     

    Well, I got bones beneath my skin, and mister,
    There's a skeleton in every man's house.
    Beneath the dust, and love, and sweat that hang on everybody
    There's a dead man tryin' to get out.
    So please help me stay awake, I'm fallin'

     

    “There was nowhere to go but everywhere,

    so just keep on rolling under the stars.”

     

    Jack Kerouac

    Don’t let it stress you out. Life is a journey,

    you just gotta take each day as it comes, you never know what’s

    gonna be thrown at you.

    and I know where ever you are

    we both see the same moon

     

    Everyone wants stuff, we wake up every day with

    list of wishes a mile long

    and maybe we spend our lives trying to

    make those wishes come true,

    but just because we want them doesn’t

    mean we need them to be happy. 

     

    There’s no shame in being afraid. Hell, we’re all afraid.

    What you gotta do is figure out what you’re afraid of

    because when you put a face on it, you can beat it.

    Better yet, you can use it

     

    We will be perfect in every aspect of the game. You drop a pass, you run a mile.

    You miss a blocking assignment, you run a mile. You fumble the football,

    and i will break my foot off in your John Brown hind parts and then

    you will run a mile. Perfection. Let's go to work.

     

     

    We'd start slow, the way we always did, because the run, and the game,

    could go on for awhile. Maybe even forever.
    That was the thing. You just never knew. Forever was so many different things.

    It was always changing, it was what everything was really all about.

    It was twenty minutes, or a hundred years, or just this instant,

    or any instant I wished would last and last. But there was

    only one truth about forever that really mattered, and that

    was this: it was happening. Right then, as I ran with Wes

    into that bright sun, and every moment afterwards.

    Look, there. Now. Now. Now.

     

Wednesday, 05 December 2012

  • I want the ocean right now

     

    My soul is from elsewhere, 
    I’m sure of that, 
    and I intend for you and I
    to end up there

     

    Baby you've got faith in a smile; I think others would kill for.

     

     

    You seem quite nice for a girl with good looks

    And I'm the kinda fellow that'll make you feel better when your life gets shook

    So give it a chance according to your plans

    I bet I'm not number one on your list to kiss, but please understand

     


    You seem quite shy, but you're oh so cute

    And I'm the kind of girl that would love to be yours if you asked me to

    So just take a chance, try to hold my hand

    I swear I'd never let go

    Just let me know if you'd be my man


     

     

    “I’m one of those people that you have to keep your eye on

    or I’ll wander off into the woods and forget to come back.”

     

     

    I used to think I was the strangest person in the world but then

    I thought there are so many people in the world, there must be someone

    just like me who feels bizarre and flawed in the same ways I do. I would imagine her,

    and imagine that she must be out there thinking of me too. Well, I hope that if you

    are out there and read this and know that, yes, it’s true I’m here,

    and I’m just as strange as you

     

     

    you never know when your luck will change.

     

     

     

    I still catch myself feeling sad about things

    that don’t matter anymore.

     

       

     

     

     I don't believe in perfect love. But I do believe that there

    are people who's lives are inextricably intertwined.

     

    I've always found myself to come out stronger than before.

    If you don't let something break you, you're going to come

    out better in the end

     

    "And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is

    unfolding as it should. Therefore be at peace with God,

    whatever you conceive Him to be, and whatever your labors

    and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life keep peace with your soul.

    With all its shams, drudgery, and broken dreams,

    it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful.
    Strive to be happy.”

     

    Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone

    I've ever known

     

     

     

    You can only hold a smile for so long, after that it's just teeth

     

     

     

    I will not fall in love with anything but the words 

    that flutter from your extraordinary mind.

     

    If you enter this world knowing you are loved and

    you leave this world knowing the same, then everything

    that happens in between can be dealt with.

    The point is we’re all connected, through love,

    through loneliness,

    through one lamentable lapse in judgement…

    All of us. We reach out from

    the darkness, from the alienation of modern life

    to form these connections.

    I think it’s a really profound statement about

    the nature of human existence.

     

     

Friday, 19 October 2012

  • nothing but some deja vu

     

     

    Being too scared to even try it—that’s just a waste.

    I can say I made a lot of mistakes, but I don’t regret things.

    Because at least I didn’t spend a life standing outside,

    wondering what living would be like.

     

     

     

     

    do you not think so far, ahead?

     

     

    There are millions of people in this world,

    but in the end it all comes down to one.

     

     

     

    Growing up sucks. Not all kisses are magic,

    and most boys do not live up to your expectations,

    but there are those times when everything, I mean love,

    romance, relationships, it all falls together perfectly and

    it's incredible. It's those moments, no matter how

    depressingly few and far between, that make growing up worth it

     

     

     

     

    Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to mourn everything

    worth mourning.

    The broken laughs, the empty hearts, the secret tears and

    the ones who don’t love us back. There will always be that one

    girl wearing green among the black dresses and the other women

    might stick up their noses but deep down they all know she’s

    the only one there who knows herself.

    Everyone wants to be in love on Christmas,

    and not the kind of love that’s special like getting

    dressed up to see a play downtown, but the kind of love

    that’s special like snow on your birthday,

    when your birthday’s in July.

     

     

    Once upon a time, nobody gave a fuck.

     

    Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to mourn

    the unmailed letters and the lonely Decembers.

    The children ask, does it ever go away? They’re asking about

    heartache and you know better than to lie, so you answer

    truthfully and you say, no, it doesn’t, it doesn’t go away.

    One day you’re jumping in puddles and the next thing you

    know 30 years have passed and you’re telling your kids to

    walk around them. Everyone is taught to look both ways

    before crossing the street and to talk quietly in the library,

    but no one ever learns anything that matters,

    like how to keep breathing when your heart breaks in half.

     

     

     

    Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to remember

    what it’s like to be alone and to listen to the silence as the

    casket is lowered and the mother starts to cry and the aunts

    try to comfort her and the father doesn’t cry and no one tries

    to comfort him and the silence shatters like a thousand pieces

    of paper ripping in half and the day you danced in front of the

    three-way mirror seems like a lifetime ago as the father starts

    to cry and no one knows what to do.

     

     

     

    "ya know something, if the whole damn world was to go to

    the dogs, as long as I had you standing by my side, or sitting

    by my side, or laying by my side, everything would be just ok.

     I’ve been blowing my own horn for a lot of years. 

    I’m gonna tell ya something, I ain’t nothin without you.”

    “ya know something, Archie? You’re a pip… A real pip.”

    - last lines on the last episode of All in the Family. 

     

Friday, 12 October 2012

  • nothing more than to have you

    Finding someone you love and who loves you back is a wonderful,

    wonderful feeling. But finding a true soul mate is an even better feeling.

    A soul mate is someone who understands you like no other, loves you like no other,

    will be there for you forever, no matter what. They say that nothing lasts forever,

    but I am a firm believer in the fact that for some, love lives on even after we're gone.

     

     

    We'll always be friends. And I would never take you for granted in

    a million years. And I miss you. And I love you

     


     

    And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you

    because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.

    Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.

     

    A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly.

    You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth,

    but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like

    sunbeams and you will always look lovely.

     

     

     

    A little nonsense now and then, is cherished by the wisest men

     

     

    I believe in the magic of books. I believe that during certain periods

    in our lives we are drawn to particular books--whether it's strolling

    down the aisles of a bookshop with no idea whatsoever of what it is

    that we want to read and suddenly finding the most perfect, most wonderfully

    suitable book staring us right in the face. Unblinking. Or a chance meeting with

    a stranger or friend who recommends a book we would never ordinarily reach for.

    Books have the ability to find their own way into our lives.

     

     

     

    There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally,

    in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.

     

     

    Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend

     

     

    Music is a total constant. That's why we have such a strong visceral connection to it,

    you know? Because a song can take you back instantly to a moment, or a place, or

    even a person. No matter what else has changed in your or the world, that one

    song says the same, just like that moment.

     

     

    You deserve someone who loves you with every single beat of his heart,

    someone who thinks about you constantly, someone who spends every minute

    of every day just wondering what you’re doing, where you are, who you’re with,

    and if you’re OK. You need someone who can help you reach your dreams and

    protect you from your fears. You need someone who will treat you with respect,

    love every part of you, especially your flaws. You should be with someone who

    could make you happy, really happy, dancing on air happy.

     

     

     

    I’ve learned that home isn’t a place, it’s a feeling

     

     

     

     

    You should never be surprised when someone treats you with respect,

    you should expect it

     

    Oh why haven't you been there for me?
    Can't you see, I'm losing my mind this time?
    This time I think it's for real, I can see

    All the tree tops turning red
    The beggars near bodegas grin at me
    I think they want something
    I close my eyes, I tell myself to breathe

    And be calm.
    Be calm.
    I know you feel like you are breaking down.
    Oh I know that it gets so hard sometimes.
    Be calm.

    Don't let romance and beating hearts change what we came to do

     

     

    I wanna have friends that I can trust,
    that love me for the man I've become not the man I was.
    I wanna have friends that will let me be
    all alone when being alone is all that I need.

     

     

    How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours