January 2012
“How do you pick up the threads of an old life? How do you go on, when in your...”
– J.R.R. Tolkien (via misswallflower)
December 2011
“I appear to be misplaced among the multitudes, I don’t belong.”
– Charles Bukowski (via beautyisanillusion)
“Your handwriting. The way you walk. Which china pattern you choose. It’s all...”
– Chuck Palahniuk, Diary (via imfantasyparade)
“I usually walk home from school because it makes me feel like I’ve earned it....”
– The Perks of Being A Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky (via petalsquotesandthorns)
“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”
– Rudyard Kipling (via wordpainting)
“There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they...”
– W. Somerset Maugham (via beautyisanillusion)
“Screaming is bad for the voice, but it’s good for the heart.”
– Conor Oberst (via beautyisanillusion)
“If being ‘in love’ means our lives are in pieces and we are completely broken,...”
– Yasmin Mogahed (via lookhowthey-shine)
“In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get...”
– Mortimer J. Adler (via wordpainting)
“To move, to breathe, to fly, to float,
To gain all while you give,
To roam the...”
– Hans Christian Andersen (via weirdmindwanders)
“The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity.”
– Doug Horton (via paperlover)
“Don’t let me get sappy on you, but when you get right down to it, every...”
– Out of Oz, Gregory Maguire (via booklit)
“The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about...”
– Eckhart Tolle (via beautifulqalb)
“I should try to see things the way they are. But I am too often blinded by my...”
– Phoebe Gloeckner, The Diary of a Teenage Girl (via 70books)
“I wanted a perfect ending. Now I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t...”
– Gilda Radner (via e-pic)
In third grade: Learn cursive, you will use it for the rest of your life
Middle School: Write in cursive if you want, but make sure it's readable
High School: Please don't write in cursive
College: If you do not type it I will not grade your paper
“I feel that there is something in having passed one’s childhood beside the big...”
– T. S. Eliot, from a letter to Marquis Childs dated 15 October 1930
“If I try my best and fail, well, I tried my best.”
– Steve Jobs, 1998 (via david)
