March 2011
3 posts
“Everyone has the power for greatness, not for fame but greatness, because...”
– Martin Luther King, Jr. (via emilyposts)
“We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an...”
– Sam Keen (via writtenwithpersonality) (via teachingliteracy, revertoujours) (via amazingreblogs)
February 2011
2 posts
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
– Mahatma Ghandi (via somewisdom)
September 2010
2 posts
“Everyone is in favor of free speech. Hardly a day passes without its being...”
– Winston Churchill, House of Commons, October 1943 (via apsies)
“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree,...”
– Albert Einstein (via cobrashark) (via sherex, flickflickflicker) (via cancerninja)
August 2010
1 post
“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie — deliberate, contrived...”
– John F. Kennedy (via azspot) (via robot-heart-politics)
July 2010
3 posts
“The best way to find out if you can trust someone is to trust them.”
– Ernest Hemingway (via crookedindifference)
“We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.”
– John F. Kennedy
- wwr
(via brooklynmutt)
June 2010
1 post
May 2010
3 posts
“A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.”
– Jackie Robinson
The Official Site of Jackie Robinson
“Life is not a spectator sport. If you’re going to spend your whole life in...”
– Jackie Robinson
The Official Site of Jackie Robinson
“I’m not concerned with your liking or disliking me… all I ask is...”
– Jackie Robinson
The Official Site of Jackie Robinson
March 2010
4 posts
“I’m starting to realize, in something like panic, that I don’t...”
– When Books Could Change Your Life: Why What We Pore Over At 12 May Be The Most Important Reading We Ever Do | Baltimore City Paper
“There’s no race, no religion, no class system, no color - nothing - no sexual...”
– Sandra Bullock, Oscars acceptance speech for Best Actress in The Blind Side (via gelol) (via superbong) (via whataboutbryan) (via 500daysofkissingmypillow) (via quote-book)
“Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss...”
– Eleanor Roosevelt (via crownofstorms)
February 2010
7 posts
“I studiously avoid looking at myself in a mirror. It would not be productive. If...”
– Roger Ebert, who adheres to the philosophy: “Resentment is allowing someone to live rent-free in a room in your head.” (via savingpaper) (via yungdheezy) (via mimitakestheleftturn)
Whoa, must retain this.
(via thelittlemermaid)
“I believe that if, at the end of it all, according to our abilities, we have...”
– Roger Ebert (via alexblagg) (via fek) (via annicka) (via absurdlakefront)
“History is the queen of the humanities. It teaches wisdom and humility, and it...”
– Gordon S. Wood (via azspot)
“Sometimes only one person is missing and the whole world seems depopulated.”
– Alphonse de Lamartine (via brokenlife)
“Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise...”
– George S. Patton (via quote-book)
January 2010
15 posts
50 ways to make yourself miserable.
yerawizardharry:
Compare yourself frequently with others.
Belittle yourself.
Don’t believe in dreams. You believe dreams will only happen when you are sleeping.
Say yes to everybody and everything.
Work in a job you hate.
Complain about everything.
Complain about everything to your friends.
Suspicious of everything.
Counting your troubles.
Harbor negative thoughts.
Trying to please...
“I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please...”
– Bill Cosby (via mustamuseme)
I went home tonight...
lindsaydinkins:
And for the first time in a very long time, I cried to my mother. Sobbed.
Everything seems to be so right and others seem to be so wrong. It’s a constant scale, having to level things out.
She told me something that has at least turned off the sprinkler system for the time being: “You cannot help how you feel and what goes on in your head. You are a bi-product of your past. ...
“Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.”
– David Starr Jordoan
The Philosophy of Despair US biologist, educator, & ichthyologist (1851 - 1931)
(via present)
(via quote-book)
“You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do...”
– J. Miles (via maluna) (via quote-book)
“Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.”
– Janis Joplin (via erinsshenanigans) (via quote-book)
“Experience is a brutal teacher, but you learn. My God, do you learn.”
– C.S. Lewis (via sade) (via teenageaunt)
“The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think...”
– MLK, jr. (via letstalkequality)
“You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make...”
– Pearl S. Buck (via 3rdplanet) (via doublebagel) (via quote-book)
“There’s only now, there’s only here. Give in to love, or live in fear”
– Jonathan Larson, RENT | Submitted by: morningafters (via quote-book)
“Nobody can make you feel inferior without your permission.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt (via brooklynmutt)
“He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.”
– Voltaire (1694-1778) (via absurdlakefront)
“Your kids are going to make mistakes whether I do or not.”
– Miley Cyrus (via girloffscript)
December 2009
1 post
“Do not pray for an easy life, pray to be a strong person.”
– (viadominickbrady:whitneyj) (via notentirely)
November 2009
6 posts
“Music is love in search of a word.”
– Sidonie Gabrielle (via grace-notes) (via quote-book)
“Life isn’t worth living unless you’re willing to take some big chances and go...”
– Eliot Wiggington (via kari-shma) (via teenageaunt)
“I realized why I’d thought about Sesame Street all day. In a way, you can learn...”
– J.D., Scrubs (via inothernews)
“The willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life is the source from...”
– Joan Didion (via emilyposts)
1 tag
“I hear criticism as, “You are a failure”, “You don’t...”
– D. Putz
October 2009
23 posts
