May 2013
1 post
April 2013
4 posts
It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple.
– Rabindranath Tagore (via youlooklikesomethingblooming)
March 2013
23 posts
Night is purer than day; it is better for thinking, loving and dreaming. At...
– Elie Wiesel,Dawn (via youlooklikesomethingblooming)
An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing...
– Charles Bukowski (via youlooklikesomethingblooming)
I want to be magic. I want to touch the heart of the world and make it smile. I...
– Charles de Lint (via youlooklikesomethingblooming)
Don’t get attached to moments. Good or bad, they all pass.
– Yasmin Mogahed (via youlooklikesomethingblooming)
Surround yourself with people who make you happy. People who make you laugh, who...
– Karl Marx (via youlooklikesomethingblooming)
It is possible to live twenty-four hours a day in a state of love. Every...
– Thich Nhat Hanh (via youlooklikesomethingblooming)
Remember how far you’ve come, not just how far you have to go. You are not where...
– Rick Warren (via youlooklikesomethingblooming)
Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
– Gustave Flaubert (via youlooklikesomethingblooming)
Minimalism is not the lack of something, it’s the perfect amount of something
– Nicholas Burroughs (via youlooklikesomethingblooming)
He found something that he wanted, had always wanted and always would want—not...
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise (via youlooklikesomethingblooming)
Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of...
– Leonardo da Vinci (via youlooklikesomethingblooming)
My philosophy in life is to ask for everything nice and politely, and if they...
– Paloma Faith (via youlooklikesomethingblooming)
It’s not hard to decide what you want your life to be about. What’s hard, she...
– Shauna Niequist, Bittersweet (via youlooklikesomethingblooming)
The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own....
– Bob Moawad (via youlooklikesomethingblooming)
Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.
– Robert T. Kiyosaki (via youlooklikesomethingblooming)
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists...
– Albert Camus (via youlooklikesomethingblooming)
Nothing is so common as the wish to be remarkable.
– William Shakespeare (via youlooklikesomethingblooming)
The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it - basically because you...
– Charles Bukowski (via youlooklikesomethingblooming)
Every dreamer knows that it is entirely possible to be homesick for a place...
– Judith Thurman (via youlooklikesomethingblooming)
She had studied the universe all her life, but had overlooked its clearest...
– Carl Sagan (via youlooklikesomethingblooming)
We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way...
– Kurt Vonnegut (via youlooklikesomethingblooming)
The confidence that comes from being well-dressed is immeasurable.
– Brooks Brothers, 1932 (via youlooklikesomethingblooming)
A book can teach you, a conversation can assure you, a poem can seduce you, a...
– Anthony Anaxagorou (via youlooklikesomethingblooming)
February 2013
32 posts
The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own....
– Bob Moawad (via youlooklikesomethingblooming)
When I thought about why I was sometimes reluctant to push myself, I realized...
– Gretchen Rubin, The Happiness Project (via youlooklikesomethingblooming)
The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others,...
Opportunity is missed by most because it is dressed in overalls and looks like...
– Edison
Being a good writer is 3% talent and 97% not being distracted by the internet.
– (via worldinink)
Don’t hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit...
– Teddy Roosevelt
You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns...
Remember the three R’s: Respect for self; respect for others; and...
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters...
– Khalil Gibran
Traveling is like flirting with life. It’s like saying, ‘I would stay and love...
– Lisa St. Aubin de Terán
People often say that beauty is in the eyes of the beholder… I say the most...
– Selma Hayek
When something is inflexible, it is bound to break. No matter how strong it...
If you look confident you can pull off anything - even if you have no clue what...
The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to...
– John Pierpont