January 2011
107 posts
littlemisterwalf:
“What was the point of fiction if not to edit one’s reality? If not to rewrite...”
– Anita Shreve - A Wedding in December (via readingandwritingjunkie)
“And I don’t, don’t, don’t get the hate. Self hate, women hate, body hate,...”
– bruiseoftheweek (via marythedaring)
If you can correctly pronounce every word in this...
crimsun:
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“You are constantly told in depression that your judgment is compromised, but a...”
– Andrew Solomon, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression (via psychotherapy)
I hate when someone stays behind me when I'm using...
alwaysmythunder:
I’m like
“There must be a million people all over the world who never get any love...”
– Charlie Brown (via thoughtsdetained)
That awkward moment when you still cannot...
“Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet.”
– Roger Miller (via kari-shma)
trueeee story brah
vanessalsaadi:
Going to class: Everyone: Me:
Doing work: Everyone: Me:
Lunch time: Everyone: Me:
Someone tells a joke: Everyone: Me:
Last bell rings on a Friday: Everyone: PARTY TIME Me: TUMBLR ALL NIGHT LOOOOOOONG YEAH
this made me laugh so hard.((:
☐ Single ☐ Taken ☑ Unable to fall in love with...
wordsinaction:
makehouseyourhome:
too bad that this is ACTUALLY true for me….
MY LIFE
“The Philippines is such a crazy place, and yet you meet the sanest people in the...”
– A traveler I met in Vietnam
My favorite quote about the Philippines. Will work this line into a film some day :)
They say all the good ones are taken? Uhm, hello...
“Anger always comes from frustrated expectations.”
– Elliott Larson (via kari-shma)
“It’s the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting,”
– Paulo Coelho (via realistthoughts)
“Every dreamer knows that it is entirely possible to be homesick for a place...”
– Judith Thurman (via iheartloons)
“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely...”
– Marilyn Monroe (via kari-shma)
The Logical Conclusion
zen-cynic:
The path was well-trodden. Pale and hardened, it coughed whiffs of dust with each of the jogger’s frantic steps.
She had been running for several decades now. Today, she happened upon an old man sitting cross-legged on the side of the road. Disheveled and emaciated, he cast a dull look beyond the horizon.
“Excuse me, sir. Would you happen to know… Why am I doing all this running?...
If you think reading is boring,
saintmorrissey:
You are reading the wrong books. Fact.
MANDATORY REMINDER from CNN: NASA reports that by...
At age 8, your dad buys you an ice cream. You...
dreamonforeternity:
samanffa:
(via adaisyintherain-deactivated2010)
I hate it when I'm reading a book and the guy is...
monaii:
miss-antebellum:
And I’m sitting there like
Can you be real? Please?
Right now it’s Nate Cross. oh Nate..
“Laziness is often mistaken for patience.”
– French Proverb | Submitted by ohwellnevermind (via quote-book)
Freedom Fighters for a Fading Empire →
Words matter, as candidate Barack Obama said in the 2008 election campaign. What to make, then, of President Obama’s pep talk last month to US troops in Afghanistan in which he lauded them as “the finest fighting force that the world has ever known”? Certainly, he knew that those words would resonate with the troops as well as with the folks back home.
How a Giant Weapons Maker Became the New Big... →
Lockheed Martin doesn’t actually run the U.S. government, but sometimes it seems as if it might as well. After all, it received $36 billion in government contracts in 2008 alone, more than any company in history. It now does work for more than two dozen government agencies from the Department of Defense and the Department of Energy to the Department of Agriculture and the Environmental...
When someone asks me, "How's your love life?"
monaii:
alyaae:
gonna try this..
“The thing about being irresponsible is it’s only cute till you are about...”
– Donald Miller (via quote-book)
