January 2012
62 posts
: cassygolightly: It astounds me that some people... →
cassygolightly:
It astounds me that some people still haven’t figured out the secret to happiness.
These are the people who are still making melodramatic Facebook statuses and tweeting things that suggest they are genuinely unhappy at least semi-regularly. The people who still complain more…
“Every person in this chamber can point to a teacher who changed the trajectory...”
– President BARACK OBAMA (via inothernews)
“Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different...”
– Desmond Tutu (via elige)
You think when you wake up in the morning yesterday doesn’t count. But yesterday is all that does count. What else is there? Your life is made out of the days it’s made out of. Nothing else.
— Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men
“We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (via reluctantbuddha
)
“There comes a time when every life goes off course. In this desperate moment you...”
– One Tree Hill (via eletheowl)
“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr. (via girlwithoutwings)
“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The...”
– Nelson Mandela (via quote-book)
“.. she believed a great happiness awaited her somewhere, and for this reason she...”
– Sunflower, Gyula Krúdy (via winterlief)
“When you read to a child, when you put a book in a child’s hands, you are...”
– Paula Fox (via booksandnerds)
“An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.”
– Benjamin Franklin (via kari-shma)
“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via kari-shma)
“Trying times are not the times to stop trying.”
– Ray Owen (via kari-shma)
“I think you can have anything that you want. Find someone who has a life that...”
– Lana Del Rey (via thatkindofwoman)
Only a fool makes threats. Only another fool feels...
“What can I do with my happiness? How can I keep it, conceal it, bury it where I...”
– Anaïs Nin (via light-essence)
“The reason death sticks so closely to life isn’t biological necessity, —it’s...”
– Piscine Molitor Patel, Life of Pi, Yann Martel (via nubivagantmusings)
“You cannot convince people to love you. This is an absolute rule. No one will...”
– ‘Dear Sugar,’ February 2011 (via belibaby)
Desire is the starting point of all achievement,...
The best revenge is happiness, because nothing...
“The best things in life are free. The second best are expensive.”
– Coco Chanel (via sweet-southern-charm
)
“If one makes a mistake, then an apology is usually sufficient to get things back...”
– Andy Andrews (via mybrainfarts)
“Don’t move the way fear makes you move. Move the way love makes you move. Move...”
– Osho (via xox-mycelia-xox)
“The people who matter will recognise who you are.”
– Alan Cohen (via kari-shma
)
“Bad things happen. Trust that good things happen, too.”
“Every blessing, when ignored, becomes a curse.”
– Brida, Paulo Coelho (via kari-shma)
30 Things to Stop Doing to Yourself
As Maria Robinson once said, “Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.” Nothing could be closer to the truth. But before you can begin this process of transformation you have to stop doing the things that have been holding you back.
Here are some ideas to get you started:
Stop spending time with the wrong people. – Life is too short...
