January 2012
17 posts
This life is what you make it. Not matter what, you’re going to mess up...
– Marilyn Monroe (via theskeletonofme)
An Open Letter to the Fat Girl I Saw at Hot Yoga... →
this is the best blog post ever.
I believe that love that is true and real creates a respite from death. All...
– Midnight in Paris
Marriage. →
I just want to reblog everything this girl writes…
withoutmelissa:
I hate when we argue, but most often, it is the thing that reminds us we are human. For so long we were a couple and then our eyes blinked closed and they opened to us with a baby on each hip, an official new title: mama. daddy. and less time than we’d ever had before for our individual selves and…
Dear Baby: A lesson in learning to be present. →
dearbaby:
(Photo:Everly is always reaching for Arlo’s hand)
I sat in the back of our van, holding a cold bottle of breastmilk I’d just pulled from the cooler to Arlo’s mouth while he screamed red faced at me. I apologized that it wasn’t warm and held my breath that he would take it anyway. Everly had…
Instructions For Life, by The Dalai Lama
Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.
When you lose, don’t lose the lesson.
Follow the three R’s: - Respect for self, - Respect for others and - Responsibility for all your actions.
Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
Don’t let a little dispute...
This life will disintegrate, no matter how much prosperity we have. No amount of...
– Dalai Lama
No, I think I belong right here. Because maybe there is a place for me in this...
– Dexter
I want to taste and glory in each day, and never be afraid to experience pain;...
– Sylvia Plath (via anditslove)
December 2011
32 posts
What 2011 Has Taught Me.
I can truly say with full conviction that this has been the worst year of my life. And I mean that in the most optimistic way possible, as it can only get better from here on out (right?).
To start off 2012 on as best a note I can, I want to sum up all the lessons that 2011 has taught me, and maybe even be thankful for certain wonderful things I’ve had all along. So here goes nothing (or...
LOVE!
I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike...
– Ghandi
You looked at me
and I was done
And we’re, we’re just getting started.
– Eric Church, Springsteen
The four most over-rated things in life are champagne, lobster, anal sex and...
– Christopher Hitchens (via nedhepburn, karion)
Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can’t, and...
– Robert Frost (via anditslove)
This is the thing: When you hit 28 or 30, everything begins to divide. You can...
– Relevant magazine (via charliebravo)
You know what my friend’s father told me once a long time ago? He said, ‘When...
– How To Make It In America (via precipice)
New York...to me. →
November 2011
24 posts