December 2010
18 posts
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Where you invest your love, you invest your life.
– Mumford & Sons, “Awake My Soul”
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Quick to judge, quick to anger, slow to understand.
Ignorance and prejudice and...
– Rush “Witch Hunt”
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People talking without speaking,
People hearing without listening,
People...
– Paul Simon, “Sounds of Silence”
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I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together...
– Margaret Mitchell
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Living might mean taking chances, but they’re worth taking.
Loving might...
– Lee Ann Womack, “I Hope You Dance”
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Perfection
Congratulations! You’re not perfect! It’s ridiculous to want to be perfect anyway. But then, everybody’s ridiculous sometimes, except perfect people. You know what perfect is? Perfect is not eating or drinking or talking or moving a muscle or making even the teensiest mistake. Perfect is never doing anything wrong - which means never doing anything at all. Perfect is...
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While we’re living,
The dreams we have as children
Fade away…
– Oasis, “Fade Away”
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Christmas came without ribbons! It came without tags! It came without packages,...
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You must give up the life you planned in order to have the life that is waiting...
– Joseph Campbell
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And after the storm,
I run and run as the rains come
And I look up, I look up,...
– Mumford & Sons, “After the Storm”
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Don’t let some hell-bent heart leave you bitter.
When you come close to...
– Lee Ann Womack, “I Hope You Dance”
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It’s the heart afraid of dying, that never learns to dance;
It’s...
– Amanda McBroom, “The Rose”
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Too often we are scared
Too often we are scared. Scared of what we might not be able to do. Scared of what people might think if we tried. We let our fears stand in the way of our hopes. We say no when we want to say yes. We sit quietly when we want to scream. And we shout with the others, when we should keep our mouths shut.
Why?
After all,we do only go around once. There’s really no time to be afraid.
So stop.
Try...
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All you touch and all you see,
Is all your life will ever be.
– Pink Floyd, “Breathe”
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Is a dream a lie if it don’t come true,
or is it something worse?
– Bruce Springsteen
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Well this place is old
It feels just like a beat up truck
I turn the engine,...
– “One Headlight” - The Wallflowers
One of my favorites.
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the future...
So you’re 21, maybe 22. You can now drink legally, and for all technical purposes, you are an adult. An ADULT. You start avoiding people who ask the dreaded question, “so what’s the plan for next year?”. Next year?! Shit, you’re just barely swimming trying to juggle the right now. Upper level classes, a thesis, an internship, and grad/med/law/job applications....