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"What makes an experience worthwhile? Is it the quality of the experience as it’s happening, or as..."

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 21:24:50 -0400

“What makes an experience worthwhile? Is it the quality of the experience as it’s happening, or as it’s remembered?”

- Joshua Rothman

"The hardest thing you will ever do, will be not doing something."

Sat, 23 Mar 2013 02:09:42 -0400

“The hardest thing you will ever do, will be not doing something.”

- I Wrote This For You

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Thu, 21 Mar 2013 21:29:55 -0400

Sinking Ship (Large Clipper Ship), 2012

In the Woods, Of the Woods, 2009

Niagara Falls, 2007

Fallen Bierstadt, 2007

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But you are important. You are important in a way that many people will never acknowledge, because...

Tue, 19 Feb 2013 01:58:00 -0500

But you are important. You are important in a way that many people will never acknowledge, because they are too consumed with their image in the mirror or their voice on a recording to notice that they share the world with people around them. But you are important because you are good, because you look at your surroundings with tenderness and understanding. You don’t step on flowers when you walk, you allow a housepet to come to your hand instead of roughly insisting on your touch, you leave messages and wait for people to call you back at their convenience. You treat people with respect, and so rarely ask it for yourself. But you should. Because you matter. You matter to me, you matter to the woman you held the elevator for, and you matter to the friend you listened to while they unloaded the problems the world had put on them. You are more important than you will ever know, and never let anyone tell you that your economy of words is a stinginess of character. You are overflowing with love, and we can see it from a mile away.

"I love you — I’m not afraid to admit that, even if it isn’t reciprocated — but I love myself more...."

Mon, 18 Feb 2013 14:15:03 -0500

“I love you — I’m not afraid to admit that, even if it isn’t reciprocated — but I love myself more. And I must start taking care of the things I love.”

- Charlotte Green, Don’t Tell Me You Love Me (via creatingaquietmind)

"You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly..."

Mon, 18 Feb 2013 14:14:48 -0500

““You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should’ve behaved better.””

- Anne Lamott (via creatingaquietmind)

"Sometimes you’re 23 and standing in the kitchen of your house making breakfast and brewing coffee..."

Mon, 18 Feb 2013 14:10:07 -0500

“Sometimes you’re 23 and standing in the kitchen of your house making breakfast and brewing coffee and listening to music that for some reason is really getting to your heart. You’re just standing there thinking about going to work and picking up your dry cleaning. And also more exciting things like books you’re reading and trips you plan on taking and relationships that are springing into existence. Or fading from your memory, which is far less exciting. And suddenly you just don’t feel at home in your skin or in your house and you just want home but “Mom’s” probably wouldn’t feel like home anymore either. There used to be the comfort of a number in your phone and ears that listened everyday and arms that were never for anyone else. But just to calm you down when you started feeling trapped in a five-minute period where nostalgia is too much and thoughts of this person you are feel foreign. When you realize that you’ll never be this young again but this is the first time you’ve ever been this old. When you can’t remember how you got from sixteen to here and all the same feel like sixteen is just as much of a stranger to you now. The song is over. The coffee’s done. You’re going to breathe in and out. You’re going to be fine in about five minutes.”

- The Winter of the Air. (via maddywirtz)

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Sun, 17 Feb 2013 23:53:25 -0500

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Cecelia Ahern, If You Could See Me Now

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"It’s not hard to decide what you want your life to be about. What’s hard, she said, is figuring out..."

Sun, 17 Feb 2013 23:52:59 -0500

“It’s not hard to decide what you want your life to be about. What’s hard, she said, is figuring out what you’re willing to give up in order to do the things you really care about.”

- “Bittersweet” by Shauna Niequist (via kari-shma)

"The more you know of who you are and what you want, the less you let things upset you."

Sun, 17 Feb 2013 23:52:42 -0500

“The more you know of who you are and what you want, the less you let things upset you.”

- Lost in Translation (via somuchsass)

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"You must accept the reality of other people. You think that reality is up for negotiation, that we..."

Sun, 17 Feb 2013 23:47:59 -0500

“You must accept the reality of other people. You think that reality is up for negotiation, that we think it’s whatever you say it is. You must accept that we are as real as you are; you must accept that you are not God.”

- Tessa Wall - The Casual Vacancy - J.K. Rowling (via creatingaquietmind)

"You are most powerful when you are most silent. People never expect silence. They expect words,..."

Sun, 17 Feb 2013 23:47:06 -0500

“You are most powerful when you are most silent. People never expect silence. They expect words, motion, defense, offense, back and forth. They expect to leap into the fray. They are ready, fists up, words hanging leaping from their mouths. Silence? No.”

- Alison McGhee, All Rivers Flow To The Sea (via misteranthropist)

"That is why it is so important to let certain things go. To release them. To cut loose. People need..."

Sun, 17 Feb 2013 23:46:19 -0500

“That is why it is so important to let certain things go. To release them. To cut loose. People need to understand that no one is playing marked cards; sometimes we win and sometimes we lose. Don’t expect to get anything back, don’t expect recognition for your efforts, don’t expect your genius to be discovered or your love to be understood. Complete the circle. Not out of pride, inability, or arrogance, but simply because whatever it is no longer fits in your life. Close the door, change the record, clean the house, get rid of the dust. Stop being who you were and become who you are.”

- Paulo Coelho (via creatingaquietmind)

"In the space between yes and no there’s a lifetime. It’s the difference between the path you walk..."

Sun, 17 Feb 2013 23:45:09 -0500

“In the space between yes and no there’s a lifetime. It’s the difference between the path you walk and the one you leave behind; it’s the gap between who you thought you could be and who you really are.”

- Jodi Picoult (via onlinecounsellingcollege)

"You find a way, somehow, to get through the most horrible things, things you think would kill you...."

Sun, 17 Feb 2013 23:42:50 -0500

“You find a way, somehow, to get through the most horrible things, things you think would kill you. You find a way and you move through the days, one by one, in shock, in despair, but you move. The days pass, one after the other, and you go along with them — occasionally stunned, and not entirely relieved, to find that you are still alive.”

- “The Year of Fog” by Michelle Richmond (via kari-shma)

"I have this theory that the more important & intimate the emotion, the fewer words are required..."

Sun, 17 Feb 2013 23:40:54 -0500

“I have this theory that the more important & intimate the emotion, the fewer words are required to express it. For instance, in dating. ‘Will you go out with me?’ Six words. ‘I think I care for you.’ Five words. ‘You matter to me.’ Four words. ‘I love you.’ Three words. ‘Marry me.’ Two words. So what’s left? What’s the one most important & intimate word you can ever say to somebody? It’s ‘goodbye.’”

- J. Michael Straczynski (via thelovewhisperer)

"Go so far away that you stop being afraid of not coming back."

Sun, 17 Feb 2013 23:40:17 -0500

“Go so far away that you stop being afraid of not coming back.”

- Eve Ensler, I am an Emotional Creature: The Secret Life of Girls Around the World (via creatingaquietmind)