20 December 2011
...banged up, mentally and emotionally...
"She's banged up, mentally and emotionally. Literally and metaphorically. But every day she walks outside with a smile on her face because that's who she is." -Unknown
...there's beauty in the breakdown
"So, let go, let go / Just get in / Oh, it's so amazing here / It's all right / 'Cause there's beauty in the breakdown" -Frou Frou; Let Go
...another Troy for her to burn?
"Why, what could she have done being what she is? / Was there another Troy for her to burn?" -W.B. Yeats; No Second Troy
18 December 2011
In an infinite multiverse...
"In an infinite multiverse, I can only hope one of me has what it wants." -Scott Nadolski
...like the language you love.
"Find yourself strong and good like the language you love." -Tom Pathos Bill Johns
Love is the whole history...
"Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's." -Madame de Stael
...woman's guess is much more accurate...
"A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty." -Rudyard Kipling; Plain Tales from the Hills
...so many things are possible...
"And, as you've discovered, so many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible." -Norton Juster; The Phantom Tollbooth
...to keep one's wife happy...
"Only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. One is to let her think she is having her own way, and the other is to let her have it." -Lyndon B Johnson
Love me when I least deserve it...
"Love me when I least deserve it, because that is when I really need it." -Swedish Proverb
...dream is something that will disappear...
"A dream is something that will disappear no matter how much you wish to believe it." -Catherine (Video Game)
Answer when you are called...
"Answer when you are called. And know that the calling has never stopped, even when you have made yourself a busy signal." -Divine Winks
Here's to the crazy ones...
"Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The trouble-makers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules, and they have no respect for the status-quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify, or vilify them. But the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do." -Apple Computers
To use our individual...
"To use our individual good or bad luck as a litmus test to determine whether or not God exists constructs an illogical dichotomy that reduces our capacity for true compassion. It implies a pious quid pro quo that defies history, reality, ethics, and reason. It fails to acknowledge that the other half of rising—-the very half that makes rising necessary-—is having first been nailed to the cross." -Sugar; Dear Sugar
16 December 2011
What if you allowed your God...
"What if you allowed your God to exist in the simple words of compassion others offer to you? What if faith is the way it feels to lay your hand on your daughter’s sacred body? What if the greatest beauty of the day is the shaft of sunlight through your window? What if the worst thing happened and you rose anyway? What if you trusted in the human scale? What if you listened harder to the story of the man on the cross who found a way to endure his suffering than to the one about the impossible magic of the Messiah? Would you see the miracle in that?" -Sugar; Dear Sugar
Woah, Mona Lisa...
"Woah, Mona Lisa, / You're guaranteed to run this town / Whoa, Mona Lisa, / I'd pay to see you frown" -Panic! at the Disco; The Ballad of Mona Lisa
And if she had the proper words...
"And if she had the proper words to say, / She would tell him / But she'd have nothing left to sell him" -Panic! at the Disco; The Ballad of Mona Lisa
I want, just once, to wear...
"I want, just once, to wear a bright red, strapless ball gown with no apologies. I want to be shocking, and vivid and wear a dress as intensely amazing as the person I so want to be. And the more I thought about it the more I realized how often we deny ourselves that red dress and all the other capricious, ridiculous, overindulgent and silly things that we desperately want but never let ourselves have because they are simply 'not sensible'." -Jenny; The Bloggess
To all you girls that think...
"To all you girls that think you're fat because you're not a size 0, you're the beautiful ones, it's society who's ugly." -Marilyn Monroe
But trying to use willpower...
"But trying to use willpower to overcome the apathetic sort of sadness that accompanies depression is like a person with no arms trying to punch themselves until their hands grow back. A fundamental component of the plan is missing and it isn't going to work." -Allie; Hyperbole and a Half
I believe God raises you like...
"I believe God raises you like a parent does. Teaches you his values and things and, as you grow up, you learn from him so that when you become an adult God can step back and release you into the world (like your parents do when you move out). / Like a parent, God can trust that what he taught you over the years will be enough to help you make the right choices in life, to lead a happy life, a fulfilled life." -goddessastra
First, I would have her be...
"First, I would have her be beautiful, and walking carefully up on my poetry at the loneliest moment of an afternoon, her hair still damp at the neck from washing it. She should be wearing a raincoat, an old one, dirty from not having money enough for the cleaners. She will take out her glasses, and there in the bookstore, she will thumb over my poems, then put the book back up on its shelf. She will say to herself, 'For that kind of money, I can get my raincoat cleaned.' And she will." -Ted Kooser
12 December 2011
One of abundance's many corollaries...
"One of abundance's many corollaries is that the brighter your life, the more you attract... everything. / Moths and butterflies. / At which point you begin learning what to celebrate and what to let fly on by. / Or who." -TUT; A Note from the Universe
An angel in the book...
"An angel in the book of life wrote down my baby's birth. Then whispered as she closed the book 'too beautiful for earth.'" -Unknown
11 December 2011
I am grateful life...
"I am grateful life beat me into submission, because that’s how I learned to fight with compassion instead of fury. I’m not broken, I’m bendable, and I can survive anything. Damaged goods are the best kind there are." -Liz Roberts; Dear Sugar
Wisdom: Sometimes the only difference...
"Wisdom: Sometimes the only difference between a budding genius and a blooming idiot is where they choose to take a stand." -Demotivators
Irresponsibility: No single raindrop...
"Irresponsibility: No single raindrop believes it is to blame for the flood." -Demotivators
This is the only story...
"This is the only story of mine whose moral I know. I don't think it's a marvelous moral; I simply happen to know what it is: We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be." -Kurt Vonnegut; Mother Night
Once upon a time...
"Once upon a time there was a book and in the book was a nest and in the nest was an egg and in the egg was a dragon and in the dragon was a story..." -Anonymous
Alright, I've been thinking...
"Alright, I've been thinking. When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don't want your damn lemons! What am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life's manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons! Do you know who I am? I'm the man who's gonna burn your house down! With the lemons! I'm gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!" -Portal 2
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