May 2013
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“Don’t be so main stream that you lose yourself.”
“Don’t be so main stream that you lose yourself.”
A friend of mine posted this the other day on Facebook and I can’t seem to get it out of my head. I have definitely done this. I’ve gotten so far into what’s new and now that I forgot who I am. I was very selfish and my actions reflected a give and take type of relationship with new people. What could you do for me? What can we trade?
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When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
– ― Ernest Hemingway
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When you get everything you wanted, I think maybe you do have to be a little...
– Jennifer Weiner
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When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we...
– ― Henri J.M. Nouwen, The Road to Daybreak: A Spiritual Journey
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It’s not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.
– ― E.M. Forster, The Longest Journey
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Sometimes it was hard to express how much you loved someone. You said the words,...
– Diane Chamberlain, The Midwife’s Confession (via fuzzysparrow)
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I wish I could tell you how lonely I am. How cold and harsh it is here....
– ― Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South
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Just ‘cause there’s snow on the roof doesn’t mean...
– Bonnie Hunt
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I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good...
– Oscar Wilde
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Somtimes
Sometimes,
You need to step outside,
Get some air,
And remind yourself
Of who you are
And
Who you want to be.
I’ve been recently trying to figure out who I am. And I’m not saying that I don’t know who I am just who I want to become. I feel like we’re always changing and evolving. Whether it be our environment or our new beliefs, etc. We’re always growing and learning new information. There...
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She wasn’t bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of said. The...
– The Perks of Being a Wallflower (via apieceofwatermelon)
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Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol,...
– C.G. Jung
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Don’t expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
– Calvin Coolidge (via anundercoveroptimist)
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I admire addicts. In a world where everybody is waiting for some blind, random...
– Chuck Palahniuk, Choke
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I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly...
– Edgar Allan Poe
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‘I’ve been through all this before,’ he says to his heart.
‘Yes, you have been...
– Paulo Coelho, Warrior of the Light (via alittlecoconuttart)
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Ghosts don’t haunt us. That’s not how it works. They’re present among us because...
– Sue Gafton, M is for Malice (via sydneyrae)
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You’re selfish and you’re cold, and I’m tired of getting frostbite when I touch...
– Acheron by Sherrilyn Kenyon (via lostinthesounds)
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She reminds him of every good day he’s ever had. Every summer spent in...
– pleasefindthis, Intentional Dissonance
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Never apologize for how you feel. No one can control how they feel. The sun...
– Iain S. Thomas, Intentional Dissonance
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You forget that even the strongest person to ever live had a weakest day of...
– i wrote this for you
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I’d like to ask that all of you forget about what you’re depressed about, that...
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A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the...
– Winston Churchill
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