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The silver sound is all around and the colors fall like snow.
The feeling of letting go, I guess we’ll never know
Owl City
Fear grows in darkness; if you think there’s a bogeyman around, turn on the light.
Dorothy Thompson
Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you’ll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.
Above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.
Roald Dahl
i’m not going to lie, though i do it often. when someone matters, i’ll tell them the truth, just like the way i only smile when it’s needed. i don’t overuse things, because things easily lose their meaning that way. i think you’re an amazing person. you’re smart, clever, witty, incredible with words and with the colours that flutter from each stroke of your paintbrush. when i look in your eyes, i see the sky. you’re still a bird trapped in that cage of yours, and one day, i’ll be there to see you fly
I love to sleep. Do you? Isn’t it great? It really is the best of both worlds. You get to be alive and unconscious.
Rita Rudner
Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else’s life forever
Margaret Cho
Those with the greatest awareness have the greatest nightmares
Mahatma Gandhi
nobody can save you but
yourself
and you’re worth saving.
it’s a war not easily won
but if anything is worth winning then
this is it.
Sometimes I wish my eyes were not as wide and my dreams were not as big and my heart was not as open. Sometimes I just wish I didn’t fall in love with the world so easily
what truly bothers me, is
people. people who have the audacity to think they can do things and say things that are completely uncalled for.
you know, now it isn’t so much the question of “how dare you?”
it’s the statement, “I dared.”
our generation is so focused on the things that we should not have. we are so focused on the things that others have that we do not. we are so focused on our wishful desires that when it comes to priorities we put ourselves first. it is rare now that you can meet a person and trust them not to be two faced. it is rare to find a person now that IS courteous. it is rare you will find a girl that isn’t swallowed by her disatisfaction with her appearance. it is rare you will find a guy that doesn’t see past the sick romance in his life. nothing of us is original anymore - everything we are has already been thought up and written down millions and millions of years ago. we are the combined effort of everyone we’ve ever known. and we still seek new ways to be bolder, bigger, stronger, faster, more daring, and ultimately no one on this earth will know what is right from wrong.
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
please don’t fight the hands that are holding you.
Minutes become hours and hours become a day, continually marking time and life.
But strangely, when you are away, a single, solitary moment lasts forever. Time refuses to be measured in an ordinary way
everything started to come together at the same time. i'm not sure what to think of it. i will admit i'm scared, but what we have is beautiful. but at the same time, i know i need my independence.
You know what? Fuck beauty contests. Life is one fucking beauty contest after another. You know, school, then college, then work, fuck that. And fuck the air force academy. If I wanna fly, I’ll find a way to fly. You do what you love, and fuck the rest.
it seemed such an overused phrase to me.
but when he said it, its beauty choked me with meaning.
months ago, it seemed the one person that could love me would have never been him. but now, it only seems fitting, like it was that way all along.
but we both know it can’t be.
never lie steal cheat or drink.
if you must lie, lie in the arms of the one you love
if you must steal, steal away from bad company
if you must cheat, cheat death
if you must drink, drink in the moments that take your breath away
when did the future switch from being a promise to a threat?
No matter how careful you are, there’s going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn’t experience it all. There’s that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should’ve been paying attention.
we weren’t meant to be, we just happened.
Even after all this time the sun never says to the earth, you owe me. Look what happens with a love like that. It lights the whole sky.
i know that at times, waking up everyday is tiring. it’s not easy, to find in every moment, something inspiring. every cycle of the clock brings nothing new, only the same hoops to jump and run through. longing for moments that make your heart beat faster, but all that ever happens is one after another disaster. you try to fool yourself, that with that acquired possession, my life will be complete. just know that greed has an impossible standard to meet. and there may be times when you think u r happy. and other times, you find out that you’re actually u n happy. it’s not easy to remember that others have problems too. some of them have more problems than you. it’s not hard, for life to bring you down, but you can’t hug with arms crossed, nor kiss with a frown.
when i arrive, i bring fire.
History repeats itself, and it has never been so blatant as it is now. I’ve heard it all before and seen it all before. Yes, things are different. Variables will always change. But at the core, things are really just recycled. I say that this time it will be different, but will it really? I can’t afford to fall. I can’t afford to see everything crumble as it once did.
I have to take the first step. It’s as though I am stepping into a dark tunnel, not knowing what to expect. If history does repeat itself in the end, I am headed for a motherfucking train. Those headlights speeding toward me must be the light they always speak of.
Living on earth is expensive, but it does include a free trip around the sun
You can close your eyes to reality but not to memories.
have i ever truly given up on anything in my life?
yes. i’ve given up on the things that held me back.
i’ve given up on the things that i didn’t need, the things that hurt me more than helped me. and i became better after i let go of those things.
but what if i gave up on something beautiful?
would it hurt, after everything beautiful decided to let go of me?
i can’t keep bullshitting my way through life. not at the time when i need to give my best to make it work. but at the same time, so many things i think about now seem worthless. and this isn’t pessimism, this truly is my logic. because there are some things that are beautiful in the world, that make you so entirely happy when you have them around. but when they aren’t around, you can still go on. you can still go on without the chance of being hurt. even if it isn’t as enjoyable.
i really need to focus on the things that would be beneficial to me, my future, and my family.
which is why, for the first time, i might just let go of something beautiful.
i’m too used to the hurt for it to matter at this point.
You are doing your best to push me away. And you know what? I’m finally going to do you a favor and not push back
If you train hard, you’ll not only be hard, you’ll be hard to beat.
Once in a while I find a song that stirs up a whirlwind of emotions inside my heart. And for three to four minutes, I’m reminded that I have a heart that beats, one that knows pain, one that knows joy and one that does not forget all that my head has.
People are just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
I’m tired of this back-slapping “Isn’t humanity neat?” bullshit. We’re a virus with shoes, okay? That’s all we are
Until he looks for you, he’s not the one.
Common sense is not so common.
In the end, you’re always by yourself. You’re all you got. That’s the point."
Even if I did get past all my problems, I’m just gonna get out and get new ones