Thirteen

As I put down my pen,

I know someone, somewhere is picking up theirs.

I know that someone, somewhere is playing a guitar for the first time.

I know that someone, somewhere is dipping a paintbrush and marking a field of white.

I know that someone, somewhere is singing a song that’s never been sung.

Perhaps someone, somewhere will create something so beautiful and moving, it will change the world.

Perhaps that somewhere is here.

Perhaps that someone, is you."

-http://www.iwrotethisforyou.me/

“It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.”

— Max Eastman

"Women are like teabags; you never know how strong they are until they're put in hot water."
-Eleanor Roosevelt

"Stop talking about love. Every asshole in the world says he loves somebody. It means nothing. It still doesn't mean anything. What you feel only matters to you. It's what you do to the people you say you love, that's what matters. It's the only thing that counts."

-The Last Kiss (2006)-

“Soul meets soul on lovers’ lips.”

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

"You know, I think you try a little harder when you’re scared."

— Rocky Balboa

"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."

-Maya Angelou

"I can’t feel anything but gratitude for every single moment of my stupid life."

— American Beauty

“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”

— e.e. cummings

I squeeze the fabric
of your clothes when we hug so
you can’t blow away.

-Daily Haiku on Love by Tyler Knott

"Regret for the things we do can be tampered with time. It is regret for the things we do not do that is inconsolable."

— Sydney J. Harris

"I’m convinced that tragedy wants to harden us and that our mission is to never let it."

— Felicity

"Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't. I'm not surprised some people prefer books. Books make sense of life. The only problem is that the lives they make sense of are other people's lives, never your own.
-Julian Barnes

Twelve

"If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character…Would you slow down? Or speed up?"

--Chuck Palahniuk




"There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with another. Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss. It is necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live. The sum of all human wisdom will be contained in these two words: Wait and Hope."

Alexander Dumas

"And though she be but little, she is fierce"

--William Shakespeare

"Anyone who does anything to help a child in his life is a hero to me."

--Fred Rogers




You must work, we must all work, to make the world worthy of its children."
--Pablo Picasso




"There were things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So I buried them, and let them hurt me."
--Jonathan Safran Foer
(Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close)




“Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind.”

— William Shakespeare

"Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured."

--Mark Twain

"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society."

--Jiddu Krishnamurti

"Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it’s all over."

--Gloria Naylor

"We read to know that we are not alone."

--C.S. Lewis



"Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. ‘Pooh?’ he whispered.

‘Yes, Piglet?’
‘Nothing,’ said Piglet, taking Pooh’s hand. ‘I just wanted to be sure of you.’"

--A.A. Milne

Eleven

"He smiled understandingly-much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced—or seemed to face—the whole external world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself, and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey."

--The Great Gatsby

"Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without."

--Confucius


"It’s spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you’ve got it, you want — oh, you don’t quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!"
--Mark Twain

"If I am breathing,
if my heart still has a beat,
I am loving you."

--Daily Haiku on Love by Tyler Knott

"There’s no race, no religion, no class system, no color - nothing - no sexual orientation, that makes us better than anyone else. We’re all deserving of love."

--Sandra Bullock
Oscars acceptance speech for Best Actress

"If god is watching us, the least we can do is be entertaining."

--Dave Dunseath

"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."

--Anne Frank

If you are weary
and your smile abandons you,
I will give you mine.

-Daily Haiku on Love by Tyler Knott

"I see using my other senses. I can smell the rain before it drops, but I can’t watch it fall. I can feel the sun on my face, but I can’t see it rise or set. I want to see the world like everyone else, to see the sun, the rain, the music.

Oh I bet music looks beautiful."

--Sydney Wells, The Eye

"The scariest moment is always just before you start. After that, things can only get better."

--Stephen King

"…There are certain people who come into your life, and leave a mark… Their place in your heart is tender; a bruise of longing, a pulse of unfinished business. Just hearing their names pushes and pulls at you in a hundred ways, and when you try to define those hundred ways, describe them even to yourself, words are useless."

--Sara Zarr

"The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become."

--Charles du Bois

^Yep, probably.

“There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.”

— Jane Austen

Ten

Movie Suggestion: Milk

I watched "Milk" for the first time today. If you haven't seen it already, I honestly encourage it--if anything for the fact that James Franco, even as a gay man, is gorgeous :P But in all seriousness, its an inspiring story about an absolutely exceptional person--I teared up quite a bit. Its so depressing to me that they still have to fight for their supposedly unalienable rights. Makes me want to go picket for real.

"It’s so hard to forget pain, but it’s even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace."

--Chuck Palahniuk

"Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation."

--Kahlil Gibran


“The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference.”

— Elie Wiesel

"Music is to the soul what words are to the mind."

--Modest Mouse

"Well-read people are less likely to be criminals."

--Lemony Snicket



"History will be kind to me for I intend to write it."
--Winston Churchill

^Indeed :) haha

“To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children…to leave the world a better place…to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Always be yourself… unless you suck.”

— Joss Whedon