When you have given nothing, ask for nothing

“There’s only us, There’s only this, Forget regret, Or life is your to miss” - Mimi, Rent

Let's have some new cliches

“You can make mistakes, but you are not a failure until you blame others for those mistakes.” -John Wooden

The palest ink is better than the best memory

“It’s not about breaking the rules. It is about abandoning the concept of rules altogether” - Paul Lemberg

Never tell everything at once

“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” -Maya Angelou

I'm kind of jealous of the life I'm supposedly leading

“People who don’t take risks generally make about 2 big mistakes a year, people who do take risks generally make about 2 big mistakes a year” -Peter Drucker

Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life

“Each moment of our life, we either invoke or destroy our dreams.” -Stuart Wilde

The great thing in this world is not so much where you stand, as in what direction you are moving

“Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get — only what you are expecting to give — which is everything. What you will receive in return varies. But it really has no connection with what you give. You give because you love and cannot help giving.” - Katharine Hepburn

When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane

“Do not be critics, you people, I beg you. I was a critic and I wish I could take it all back because it came from a smelly and ignorant place in me, and spoke with a voice that was all rage and envy. Do not dismiss a book until you have written one, and do not dismiss a movie until you have made one, and do not dismiss a person until you have met them. It is a f@*$%load of work to be open-minded and generous and understanding and forgiving and accepting, but Christ, that is what matters. What matters is saying yes.” - Dave Eggers

A doctor saves lives -- It's up to people to create lives that are worth saving

“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.” ~Antoine De Saint Exupery

Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself

“F@*# self-doubt. I despise it. I hold it in contempt, along with the hell-spawned ooze-pit of Resistance from which it crawled. I will NEVER back off. I will NEVER give the work anything less than 100%. If I go down in flames, so be it. I’ll be back.” -Steven Pressfield

It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact

“The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanely sensitive. To them… a touch is a blow, a sound is a noise, a misfortune is a tragedy, a joy is an ecstasy, a friend is a lover, a lover is a god, and failure is death. Add to this cruelly delicate organism the overpowering necessity to create, create, create — so that without the creating of music or poetry or books or buildings or something of meaning, their very breath is cut off… They must create, must pour out creation. By some strange, unknown, inward urgency they are not really alive unless they are creating.” - Pearl Buck

Do not accustom yourself to use big words for little matters

"There is always one person you love who becomes that definition. It usually happens retrospectively, but it happens eventually. This is the person who unknowingly sets the template for what you will always love about other people, even if some of these lovable qualities are self-destructive and unreasonable. The person who defines your understanding of love is not inherently different than anyone else; they’re often just the person you happen to meet the first time you really, really, want to love someone. But that person still wins. They win, and you lose. Because for the rest of your life, they will control how you feel about everyone else."

— Chuck Klosterman, Killing Yourself To Live

Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it

“As he watched her walk away, he feels a loss. How is it possible, he thinks, to miss a woman whom he kept at a distance so that when she was gone he would not miss her? Only then does he realize that wanting part of her and not all of her had hurt them both and how he cannot justify his actions except that… well… it was life.”

-- shopgirl

You know everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects

Merry xMAS!!!

"Xmas isn't a season, it's a feeling" - Edna Ferber

image credited to: http://fuckyeahskinnybitch.tumblr.com

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause

Walk in the rain, jump in mud puddles, collect rocks, rainbows and roses, smell flowers, blow bubbles, stop along the way, build sandcastles, say hello to everyone, go barefoot, go on adventures, act silly, fly kites, have a merry heart, talk with animals, sing in the shower, read childrens' books, take bubble baths, get new sneakers, hold hands and hug and kiss, dance, laugh and cry for the health of it, wonder and wander around, feel happy and precious and innocent, feel scared, feel sad, feel mad, give up worry and guilt and shame, say yes, say no, say the magic words, ask lots of questions, ride bicycles, draw and paint, see things differently, fall down and get up again, look at the sky, watch the sun rise and sun set, watch clouds and name their shapes, watch the moon and stars come out, trust the universe, stay up late, climb trees, daydream, do nothing and do it very well, learn new stuff, be excited about everything, be a clown, enjoy having a body, listen to music, find out how things work, make up new rules, tell stories, save the world, make friends with the other kids on the block, and do anything else that brings more happiness, celebration, health, love, joy, creativity, pleasure, abundance, grace, self-esteem, courage, balance, spontaneity, passion, beauty, peace, relaxation, communication and life energy to...all living beings on this planet.

- Bruce Williamson, "It's Never Too Late To Have A Happy Childhood", 1987

Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?

My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right?
-- Charles M. Schulz

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it.

i am the kind of person;
that gets so afraid;
after a break up;
i straight away delete the number;
just to avoid myself getting emotional;
i am like that.

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
-- Anne Frank, Diary of a Young Girl, 1952

If you wish me to weep, you must mourn first yourself.
-- Horace

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
-- Storm Jameson


just surprise;
mere surprise;
he knew something was up;
it's not always easy, he said;
i kinda feel it's got something to do with that;
and i thought he didnt know me;
dont know what is right and what is wrong.

...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work

说起来；原来你理想的世界和真实真的是有区别；我其实很同意你的看法；但是当你认识了一个人更加久以后你会发觉所谓你理想的一套想法统统都不是很实际；要怎样能够坦白呢；我没有逃避呀；但如果每分每秒都要坦荡荡毫无保留地将一切和对方说；总的要有个限度吧；再说当你认识一个人到某种程度的时候双方根本彼此不用说什么但是就已经能够知道彼此的想法和心意；你让我看到你懦弱的一面很强烈地感受到你的不安和你根本就没有安全感；然而要真真正正去认识了解一个人也需要很长的时间啊；而我又怎么能够确定你以后不会改变呢？

“could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? life would be intolerably bearable.”

But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself

if he is someone that makes you change for the better;
then he is the one.

and i quote from a friend's friend: [wish]
所谓爱人就是能够在你身上找到你其实并没有的优 点的人。

When you reach the end of your life, do you want to be one of the people who are glad they did, or one of the people who wish they had?

But when the strong were too weak to hurt the weak, the weak had to be strong enough to leave.