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People always think that happiness is a faraway thing,” thought Francie, “something complicated and hard to get. Yet, what little things can make it up; a place of shelter when it rains - a cup of strong hot coffee when you’re blue; for a man, a cigarette for contentment; a book to read when you’re alone - just to be with someone you love. Those things make happiness.

— Betty Smith (A Tree Grows in Brooklyn)

friends are like potatoes

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artist crush- kiki smith

all works by Kiki Smith.

"Without art the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable."

George Bernard Shaw

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Learn to write about the ordinary. give homage to old coffee cups, sparrows, city buses, thin ham sandwiches. make a list of everything ordinary you can think of. keep adding to it. promise yourself, before you leave the earth, to mention everything on your list at least once in a poem, short story, newspaper article.

— from the book writing down the bones by natalie goldberg

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You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.
You're on your own. And you know what you know.
You are the guy who'll decide where to go.

Dr. Seuss

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"The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross, and which to burn."

David Russell

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" If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.

Rollo May

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"Undertake something that is difficult; it will do you good. Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already done, you will never grow."



Ronald E. Osborn

:: Quotation: How To Be Alone

Not quite a quotation, a poem, but just beautiful.
Watch it. Do.


"If you are, at first, lonely, be patient."

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"She felt in italics and thought in capitals"



Henry James

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"Man, oh man, you’re my best friend, I scream it to the nothingness, there ain’t nothin’ that I need. Well, hot & heavy, pumpkin pie, chocolate candy, Jesus Christ; there ain’t nothin’ please me more than you. Home, let me come Home. Home is wherever I’m with you."

Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros

(listen to the whole song)

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And she was so simply his love, his girl, watching him approach as if she were memorizing him and his walk and those flowers and this moment, and he wanted to ask her what sound a heart made when it broke from pleasure, when just the sight of someone filled you the way food, blood, and air never could, when you felt as if you’d been born for only one moment, and this, for whatever reason, was it.

Dennis Lehane, Shutter Island

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I believe in kindness. also in mischief. also in singing, especially when singing is not necessarily prescribed.

mary oliver



(I collect quotes, I love to read them; they make me laugh, expand my thoughts and inspire me. I'd like to share some of my favourites. Post a quote that makes you smile, or cry, or see the world differently, got you through a hard time, or something funny your friend said last week. Pop in your link below. That would be lovely. )

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The most important thing is to create; nothing else matters, creation is all.

Pablo Picasso

(I collect quotes, I love to read them; they make me laugh, expand my thoughts and inspire me. I'd like to share some of my favourites. Post a quote that makes you smile, or cry, or see the world differently, got you through a hard time, or something funny your friend said last week. That would be lovely. )

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"The indispensible first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want."

Ben Stein

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“The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”

Bertrand Russell

new meme- quote tuesday

I collect quotes in an old handbound book. I love to read them when I'm feeling uncertain or heavy with the world. They make me laugh, expand my thoughts and inspire me. I collect all kinds, some from books, some from movies or tv. shows, from historical figures, or something funny my friend said last week. I'd like to share some of my favourites.

Every Tuesday I'll post one of my favourites with a photo. Do add your name if you join in - post a quote that makes you smile, or cry, or see the world differently, or got you through a hard time. That would be lovely.

I don't want to live. I want to love first,

and live incidentally.

zelda fitzgerald

the experience of being alive

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"People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life... I think what we're seeking is an experience of being alive."

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Joseph Campbell

It's still a New Year

“ For last year’s words belong to last year’s language

And next year’s words await another voice.

And to make an end is to make a beginning. ”

~T.S. Eliot, “Little Gidding”

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I hope your voice for 2010 is everything you hope for. (Is it too late for sentimental new year stuff? I THINK NOT!)

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