You are the opposite of Batman.
April 2012
167 posts
“All life is beautiful. All humans are beautiful. Only behavior makes one ugly.”
— Jeffrey C. Keene II
“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life. And I am horribly limited.”
— Sylvia Plath
“If we listened to our intellect, we’d never have a love affair. We’d never have a friendship. We’d never go into business, because we’d be cynical. Well, that’s nonsense. You’ve got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.”
— Ray Bradbury
“I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.”
— Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
“Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are”
— John Wooden
“If somebody likes me, I want them to like the real me, not what they think I am. And I don’t want them to carry it around inside. I want them to show me, so I can feel it, too. I want them to be able to do whatever they want around me.”
— Stephen Chbosky (The Perks of Being a Wallflower)
“People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered; Forgive them anyway. If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives; Be kind anyway. If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies; Succeed anyway. If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you; Be honest and frank anyway. What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight; Build anyway. If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous; Be happy anyway. The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow; Do good anyway. Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough; Give the world the best you’ve got anyway. You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and God; It was never between you and them anyway.”
— -Mother Teresa of Calcutta
“If she loves you, if she really loves you, you’ll know it. If you can wake up to her staring at you and it’s not even mildly creepy, if you catch her smelling the shoulder of the hooded sweatshirt you lent her for an autumn walk at the beach, and not for B.O., if she makes you a pancake in the shape of a shark, if she calls you drunkenly at four in the morning “to talk,” if she laughs at your jokes when they’re funny and makes fun of you when they’re not, if she keeps her fridge stocked with Guinness tallboys for when you come over, if she tells you how she wishes she were closer to her sister and that her dad makes her sad: She loves you, of course she loves you.”
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“I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till I drop. This is the night, what it does to you. I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.”
— Jack Kerouac, On the Road, Part 2, Ch. 4
“There comes a time in life when you have to let go of all the pointless drama and the people who create it, and surround yourself with people who make you laugh so hard you forget the bad and focus solely on the good. After all, life is too short to be anything but happy.”
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“And maybe you don`t go to hell for the things you do. Maybe you go to hell for the things you don`t do.”
— Chuck Palahniuk
“You are, after all, what you think. Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.”
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— Elizabeth Gilbert
Fuck emotions.
“You must realize that something is happening to you, that life has not forgotten you, that it holds you in its hand and will not let you fall.”
— Rainer Maria Rilke
“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
— Haruki Murakami
Well fuck.
Hope I didn’t mess up anything. I’m so fucking stupid sometimes. Too fucking nice.
Daisy (Adventure Club Dubstep Remix)
Brand New
Adventure Club’s dub remix of Daisy by Brand New.
“Sometimes I wish I could be like other girls & just deal with my life instead of belting out an emotional story to anyone who shows me the slightest bit of compassion. I feel so disgusting & worthless afterwards like I’ve fucked up that person’s life by letting them into mine. So I build a wall & isolate myself so that doesn’t happen again. People move on & leave me behind. Someone else comes along & decides to climb over my wall to see what’s inside. And the cycle begins again. And every time the wall grows higher and the more isolated I feel. Each time it becomes easier it is to hate myself for feeling the way I do. I don’t know how to stop building walls, but I don’t know if I want to. It’s always a pleasent surprise when someone thinks it’s worth it to climb over that wall to get to know me. I wish I didn’t always push them away.”
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“She was so bright and happy, it made me sick. Just being around her was like lightning, she pulsed threw you, electrified you with just a glance. Whenever I was near her, I couldn’t stand it, I had to leave, but as soon as I left, I wanted to go back. She was like a sick addiction. You wondered to yourself why you were there with her, but when you weren’t all you wanted more than anything was just even a glace. She made you sick with her smile. But you loved her, as did every man who knew her, every man who she walked by. She would never feel the same about me, she was light, I was darkness. She had a life, friends, was confident, and smart. I had nothing, no friends, I was awkward and out of place.”
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“I think it’s brave to try to be happy. You’ve gotten so comfortable being unhappy. Wouldn’t it be wonderful to wake up in the morning and choose to be happy?”
— Pushing Daisies
“She said she knew she was able to fly because when she came down she always had dust on her fingers from touching the light bulbs.”
— J.D. Salinger
“The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.”
— Thomas Merton
“Be proud of your mistakes. Well, proud may not be exactly the right word, but respect them, treasure them, be kind to them, learn from them. And, more than that, and more important than that, make them. Make mistakes. Make great mistakes, make wonderful mistakes, make glorious mistakes. Better to make a hundred mistakes than to stare at a blank piece of paper too scared to do anything wrong.”
— Neil Gaiman
“I wonder if Beethoven held his breath the first time his fingers touched the keys the same a way soldier holds his breath the first time his finger clicks the trigger. We all have different reasons for forgetting to breathe.”
— Andrea Gibson
“I don’t know what they are called, the spaces between seconds – but I think of you always in those intervals.”
— Salvador Plascencia
“We all spend so much time not saying what we want, because we know we can’t have it. And because it sounds ungracious, or ungrateful, or disloyal, or childish, or banal. Or because we’re so desperate to pretend that things are OK, really, that confessing to ourselves they’re not looks like a bad move. Go on, say what you want. … Whatever it is, say it to yourself. The truth will set you free. Either that or it’ll get you a punch in the nose. Surviving in whatever life you’re living means lying, and lying corrodes the soul, so take a break from the lies for just one minute.
—” —A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby
—” —A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby
