“I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful or exciting happens, but just those that bring simple little pleasures, following one another softly, like pearls slipping off a string.”
—L.M. Montgomery (via julie911)
February 2011
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“Take a look at yourself in a mirror…who do you see looking back? Is it the person you want to be? Or is there someone else you were meant to be? The person you were meant to be but fell short of. Is someone telling you you can’t or won’t? Because you can. Believe that love is out there. Believe that dreams come true every day. Because they do. Sometimes happiness doesn’t come from money or fame or power. Sometimes happiness comes from good friends and family and the quiet nobility of leading a good life. Believe that dreams come true every day. Because they do. So take a look in that mirror and remind yourself to be happy because you deserve to be. Believe that. And believe that dreams come true every day. Because they do.”
—One Tree Hill (via never-ending-faith)
“One is happy as a result of one’s own efforts once one knows the necessary ingredients of happiness: simple tastes, a certain degree of courage, self denial to a point, love of work, and above all, a clear conscience.”
— George Sand (via justbesplendid)
“So, I’ve been thinking about this whole being happy thing, and I feel like people get lost when they think of happiness as a destination. We’re always thinking that someday we’ll be happy; we’ll get that car or that job or that person in our lives that will fix everything. But happiness is a mood, and it’s a condition, not a destination. It’s like being tired or hungry, it’s not permanent. It comes and goes, and that’s okay. And I feel like if people thought of it that way, they’d find happiness more often.”
—One Tree Hill | Submitted by yeh-its-nowshad (via quote-book)
“When life is sweet, say thank you and celebrate. And when life is bitter, say thank you and grow.”
— Shauna Niequist (Bittersweet: Thoughts on Change, Grace, and Learning the Hard Way)
“I am feeling the need to do some drinking. Actually, I’m feeling the need to do some crying, but my tear ducts seem to be too proud, so I am going to do some drinking instead.”
—Grey’s Anatomy (via quote-book)
“Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.”
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“How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.”
—George Washington Carver (via quote-book)
“Here is the deepest secret nobody knows. Here is the root of the root, and the bud of the bud, and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide. And this is the wonder that’s keeping the stars apart: I carry your heart. I carry it in my heart.”
—I Carry Your Heart With Me, EE Cummings (via keepcalmandonetwothreefuckit)
“Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do something else. Something hurts you, yet you know you shouldn’t. You take certain things for granted, even when you know you should never take anything for granted.”
—tuesdays with morrie by mitch albom (via quote-book)
“I want a life that sizzles and pops and makes me laugh out loud. And I don’t want to get to the end, or to tomorrow, even, and realize that my life is a collection of meetings and pop cans and errands and receipts and dirty dishes. I want to eat cold tangerines and sing out loud in the car with the windows open and wear pink shoes and stay up all night laughing and paint my walls the exact color of the sky right now. I want to sleep hard on clean white sheets and throw parties and eat ripe tomatoes and read books so good they make me jump up and down, and I want my everyday to make God belly laugh, glad that he gave life to someone who loves the gift.”
— Shauna Niequist (Cold Tangerines: Celebrating the Extraordinary Nature of Everyday Life (via michelleums)
“Some of the most comforting words in the universe are “me too.” That moment when you find out that your struggle is also someone else’s struggle, that you’re not alone, and that others have been down the same road.”
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“A photo says, you were happy, and I wanted to catch that. A photo says, you were so important to me that I put down everything else to come watch.”
—Jodi Picoult | submitted by: imfeelingmorethanalive (via quote-book)
“I’ve made mistakes in my life. I’ve let people take advantage of me, and I have accepted way less than what I deserve. But, I have learned from my bad choices and even though there are some things I can never take back and people who will never be sorry, I’ll know better next time and I wont settle for anything less than what I deserve..”
—(via independentlyy)
“but,’ you say, ‘i have no time!’ nonsense, there is always time. to be precise, there are 86,400 seconds in every day, each second waiting to be used, wanting to be lived. perhaps because we can’t see or touch time, we don’t understand the gift that is ours - that if we don’t use our daily allotment as best we can we end up, once again, with the ache. we all have enough time; we simply misuse it.”
~Joan Anderson” —(via myartisticnature)
~Joan Anderson” —(via myartisticnature)
“And then my soul saw you and it kind of went “Oh there you are. I’ve been looking for you”
— Unknown (via justbesplendid)
