Quote of the Week (month, year....I'm a slacker)

Quote of the Week (month, year....I'm a slacker)

You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here.
Azalea Plath to her daughter, Sylvia

Quote of the Week (month, year....I'm a slacker)

Little cosmic girl, isn't it a big world?
Say, don't you worry about the little things,
don't let the daylight rob your dreams.
Little cosmic girl, isn't it a wild world?
There is love and there is sadness,
there are miracles and madness.
And we may never understand,
no, we may never understand.

"Little Cosmic Girl" Brett Dennen

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"Do you think I've gone round the bend?"
"I'm afraid so. You're mad, bonkers, completely off your head. But I'll tell you a secret. All the best people are."
Lewis Carroll

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So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there. We can still do things. And we can try to feel okay about them.
Stephen Chbosky

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"That's the kind of trouble you get when diverse groups of people actually cross paths with one another. That's why many of the worst things in the world happen in and around Starbucks bathrooms."
Tina Fey Bosslady

I am obsessed with Tina Fey's new book. I can't stop laughing through it, and this part especially made me crack up because I immediately thought about the bathroom at the Starbucks on West 6th and Waverly Place, and the large variety of people you see waiting to use it, most of whom are not actually Starbucks customers.

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All the books we own, both read and unread, are the fullest expression of self we have at our disposal.. But with each passing year, and with each whimsical purchase, our libraries become more and more able to articulate who we are, whether we read the books or not.
Nick Hornby

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I have lost friends, some by death...others by sheer inability to cross the street.
Virgina Woolf

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Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Gandhi

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A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
Benjamin Franklin

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There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person.
-Anais Nin

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Everything is the way it is because everything was the way it was.
Jonathan Safran Foer

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Three things in human life are important: The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.

Henry James

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Quote of the Week, Courtesy of The Happiness Project

To know what to leave out and what to put in; just where and just how, ah, that is to have been educated in knowledge of simplicity -- toward ultimate freedom of expression.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

This quote has been brought to you by Gretchen Rubin's The Happiness Project, which is quickly becoming a favorite blog of mine as well as a favorite book. Both are an easy read with lots of simple, straightforward, "why didn't I think of that?" sort of advice in them. At first I found the book a little bit too self-indulgent, but I promise if you can get past the first chapter or two it's worth it, even if you don't end up doing your own "Happiness Project."

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Think of the long trip home.
Should we have stayed at home and thought of here?
Where should we be today?
Is it right to be watching strangers in a play
in the strangest of theatres?
What childishness is it that while there's a breath of life
in our bodies, we are determined to rush
to see the sun the other way around?
"Questions of Travel" Elizabeth Bishop

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Humility is not thinking less of yourself, but thinking of yourself less.
- C.S. Lewis

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If the moon smiled, she would resemble you.
You leave the same impression
Of something beautiful, but annihilating.

— The Rival, Sylvia Plath

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ps. just found my new favorite tumblr: aplathaday

in my humble opinion, a Plath a day trumps an apple a day.

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Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it.
-Eckhart Tolle

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There is really nothing more to say- except why. But since why is so difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.
Toni Morrison The Bluest Eye

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I was going to type it out and everything, but I think this image is nice. Found it on one of my favorite tumblrs, thingssheloves. I take a lot of my quote of the week pictures from here.