happiness

happiness is the consequence of personal effort. you fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. you have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings.

elizabeth gilbert

live to the point

live to the point of tears.
- albert camus

the kind of tears that both
break your heart
and fill you with joy

becomes one

"One is not born a woman; 

one becomes one".

-Simone de Beauvoir 1973.

bud

and the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud, was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
-anais nin

in your arms

millions and millions of years 

would still not give me half enough time 

to describe that tiny instant of all eternity 

when you put your arms around me

and i put my arms around you.

jacques prevert

can make her do anything

if you can make a girl laugh, you can make her do anything.
marilyn monroe

only you can hear

you don't love a person for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear. 

oscar wilde

cling

let go. why do you cling to pain? there is nothing you can do about the wrongs of yesterday. it is not yours to judge. why hold on to the very thing which keeps you from hope and love?
-leo buscaglia



i need to let go of some pain. words that i still can't believe were spoken. again and again. some people refuse to lift the disapproval from your choices. refuse to believe that maybe i do know just how to find the happiness they insist i will never get. perhaps they forget what it means to unconditionally love. 
it hurts my heart. and my soul. i want to fight back. so badly. but also i want to just let it all go. i can do nothing to change the minds of others. and i can't try any longer. so you believe what you will. 
all i want is to live my life. and you to live yours.

like new batteries

"she wants to know if i love her, that's all anyone wants from anyone else, not love itself but the knowledge that love is there, like new batteries in the flashlight in the emergency kit in the hall closet."

extremely loud and incredibly close

by all means paint

“If you hear a voice, within you say ‘you cannot paint', then by all means paint, 

and that voice will be silenced.” 

–Vincent Van Gogh

is simply not

"Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves." -- Albert Einstein

alive

We are unusual and tragic and alive.

- a heartbreaking work of staggering genius by dave eggers

just do something

“In any moment of decision 

the best thing you can do 

is the right thing. 

The next best thing 

is the wrong thing, 

and the worst thing you can do 

is nothing.” 

–Theodore Roosevelt

wings to fly

when you come to the edge of all that you know, 

you must believe one of two things: 

there will be earth upon which to stand,

or you will be given wings to fly.

-unknown

you alone

*you alone are enough.
you have nothing to prove to anybody*

- maya angelou

be happy

"You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness."

-Jonathan Safran Foer

why i love clothes

"The most beautiful clothes that can dress a woman are the arms of the man she loves. But for those who haven't had the fortune of finding this happiness, I am there.”
-Yves Saint Laurent (YSL)