January 2011
December 2010
“You can’t live your life for other people. You’ve got to do what’s right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.”
—Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook | Submitted by: parasiticparrots (via quote-book)
“We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.”
—Eleanor Roosevelt (via mikeycdavis)
“We tend to forget that happiness doesn’t come as a result of getting something we don’t have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.”
—Frederick Keonig (via quote-book)
“We were meant to lose people we love. How else would we know how important they are?”
—The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (via kari-shma)
“The world changes in direct proportion to the number of people willing to be honest about their lives.”
—Armistead Maupin (via kari-shma)
“He looked at her as a man looks at a faded flower he has gathered, with difficulty recognizing in it the beauty for which he picked and ruined it.”
—Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina (via colormerealist)
“I no longer believed in the idea of soul mates, or love at first sight. But I was beginning to believe that a very few times in your life, if you were lucky, you might meet someone who was exactly right for you. Not because he was perfect, or because you were, but because your combined flaws were arranged in a way that allowed two separate beings to hinge together.”
—Lisa Kleypas (via quotewhore)
“When things don’t work out in life, that’s out of your control but you have a choice, a moment, where you decide to build your own life. It’s putting aside your hurt, your pride, your anger and making things happen. It’s never easy but it’s usually worth it at some point.”
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Anaïs Escobar, a bright wall in a dark room.: Christmas Week: White Christmas (1954)
(via quotewhore)
“Be thankful for your good health because you can’t buy it nor does it come gift wrapped in a box.”
—Sara Wayland (via kari-shma)
“Never love anybody who treats you like you’re ordinary.”
—Oscar Wilde (via quotewhore)
