November 2011
“So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more dangerous to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.”
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Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild
(via wordpainting)
“How sad the world is, so beautiful yet so absurd.”
—Irène Némirovsky (via misswallflower)
“There’s always a moment when you start to fall out of love, whether it’s with a person or an idea or a cause, even if it’s one you only narrate to yourself years after the event: a tiny thing, a wrong word, a false note, which means that things can never be quite the same again.”
—The Salmon of Doubt by Douglas Adams (via uglyshygirl)
I was having a fairly bad day today.
- Had to attend a workshop on how to keep a job (obvious, I know)
- The place I needed to go to ask something was closed :/
- My headphones broke.
- I almost missed the bus…
Then just as I ran onto the bus, I walked up to sit down thinking how bored I would be on the journey home with no headphones. But then I saw Chloe.
Smiles all round.
“Do you know what I need? To escape into the mountains, surrounded by tall trees, I will lay on the moss, and breath in the scent of mushrooms, flowers and wet soil.”
—Les Discrets - L’ Échappée (via billowy)
“If only my heart were stone.”
—Cormac McCarthy (via misswallflower)
“You have to stop going, doing and chasing and start spending more time being with yourself.”
—Dr. Robert Holden (via davesingh)
“If I like you, that means at least one of these things: you are disinterested, I am scared to admit I like you so I am not going to call you back, I will write about the possibility of us everywhere, I will email my best friend about your voice, you are not single, you don’t know my name, I really have to know what your favorite sort of music is, I like to eat green apples and think of you, I didn’t mean to become your best friend but now I don’t know how to tell you I think I am in love with you, you are not my type but I like your t-shirt (and your eyelashes), I am an idiot, you are beautiful, I really want to call you, I didn’t see you today so I am going to yell at everyone, you are miles away, I am desperate, you don’t even know me, I want to get drunk with you, let’s sleep under the sky together, I wonder if you would ever like to wake up next to me, I want you for my birthday.”
—Mehmet Erdogan (via silverslipper)
I've been feeling quite good about myself lately.
I’ve dropped two dress sizes; I exercise twenty minutes every day and I’m eating really healthly (most of the time.) I tried on a pair of skinny jeans the other day and I felt kind of sexy in them actually - still flawed, but part of my brain was on the way to self acceptance; it’s a good start.
