thursday quote

“Hang in there. It is astonishing how short a time it can take for very wonderful things to happen.”

—	Frances Hodgson Burnett

monday quote

“If it is right, it happens—The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.”

—	John Steinbeck

thursday quote

“Close some doors today. Not because of pride, incapacity or arrogance, but simply because they lead you nowhere.”

—	Paulo Coelho

thursday quote

monday quote

I feel like men are more romantic than women.  When we get married we marry one 
girl.

Cause we’re resistant the whole way, until we meet one girl and we think: “I’d 
be an idiot if I didn’t marry this girl she’s so great.”

But it seems like girls get to a place where they just kinda pick the best 
option or something. I know girls that married they’re like: “Oh he’s got a good 
job.”

I mean, they spend their whole life looking for Prince Charming and then they 
marry the guy who’s got a good job and is gonna stick around.

Ryan Gosling

thursday quote

“You can’t just make me different and then leave. You can’t. You can’t change me and make my whole life centered around you, then leave.”

—	John Green, Looking for Alaska

monday quote

"if you have good thoughts, they will shine out of your face like sunbeams, and you will always look lovely."

-roald dahl

thursday quote

“I am driven by two main philosophies, know more about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You’d be surprised how far that gets you.”

—	~ Neil deGrasse Tyson

monday quote

“I no longer believed in the idea of soul mates, or love at first sight. But I was beginning to believe that a very few times in your life, if you were lucky, you might meet someone who was exactly right for you. Not because he was perfect, or because you were, but because your combined flaws were arranged in a way that allowed two separate beings to hinge together.”

—	Lisa Kleypas, Blue-Eyed Devil

thursday quote

“Love is the strongest emotion any creature can feel except for hate, but hate can’t hurt you. Love, and trust, and friendship, and all the other emotions humans value so much, are the only emotions that can bring pain. Only love can break a heart into so many pieces.”

—	Amelia Atwater Rhodes

monday quote

"never say goodbye, because saying goodbye means going away, and going away means forgetting."

--peter pan

thursday quote

"This is love, she thought, isn’t it? When you notice someone’s absence and hate that absence more than anything? More, even, than you love his presence?"

--Johnathon Safran Foer "Everything is Illuminated"

monday quote

"For what it’s worth: it’s never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be. There’s no time limit, stop whenever you want. You can change or stay the same, there are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. And I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again."

--F. Scott Fitzgerald "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"

thursday quote

"What did my arms do before they held you?"

--Sylvia Plath

monday quote

"i can't tell you the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everyone."

--ed sheeran

thursday quote

"Holding on to anything is like holding on to your breath. You will suffocate. The only way to get anything in the physical universe is by letting go of it. Let go and it will be yours forever."

Deepak Chopra

monday quote

"I wish I’d done everything on Earth with you."

F. Scott Fitzgerald

thursday quote

“I find the best way to love someone is not to change them, but instead, help them reveal the greatest version of themselves.”

—	Steve Maraboli

monday quote

“There is nothing wrong with loving the crap out of everything. Negative people find their walls. So Never apologize for your enthusiasm. Never. Ever. Never.”

—	Ryan Adams

i made this

i finished this during my first week home from school.  i painted the canvas background at a class at the international quilt festival five years ago and never did anything with it until now.  i just dove in one day and finished it.  YES...i realize i spelled "disappear" wrong, but i have a creative license, right?  i used alphabet stamps and then colored the letters in to make them darker.  i'm happy with the result and think i will hang it up in my room at school.

i truly believe we are all made of little pieces...the pieces come and go.  i feel like i have pieces of me that are dead through all the normalcy, but once they are fed or triggered they just explode and flourish for quite some time.  i go through phases of being inspired and driven to routine where i just go through the motions until the inspiration strikes me upside the head.

someone asked me, "what's it worth to you, being inspired by someone?"  it took me by surprise, this question and i had to think.  it's a good question to find out what drives your inner creative being. 
this was my reply, "if someone can get at my core and truly inspire me to create or think or come alive, it cannot be numbered.  it gets into my blood and stays there until i do something about it."


i feel indebted to people who inspire me and draw me out of ruts.  people who ask the tough questions that help me understand the inner networks of my mind.  all the pieces are there, i just never asked the questions that helped me put them all together.  and i don't manifest all the pieces on my own...they come and go along the way from who i meet and what i experience.  i just hope i can keep them coming alive without letting too many die off before i'm ready.