Liz Loves Words

A modern day common place book for a girl who loves words.

[lizloveswords]

The joy is in the process, the discovery, endless exploration, and constant improvement.

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Maurizio Leo, The Perfect Loaf

[lizloveswords]

The small steps along the winding path, the valuable additions and revelations uncovered -- that's where we discover the joy in the smallest details.

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Maurizio Leo, The Perfect Loaf

[lizloveswords]

"You can be a force for peace and for light in dark surroundings."

from a letter a murdered woman's father sent to the man that murdered her.

[lizloveswords]

Technology reshapes the landscape of our emotional lives, but is it offering us the lives we want to lead?

Sherry Turkle, Alone Together

[lizloveswords]

Collect the moments one by one, I guess that's how the future's done.

Feist, Mushaboom

[lizloveswords]

Have I done my best here, or

Will I be here next year, or

Are these my best years yet?

Was looking forward to

Being important, but

I'm not important, yet

If you put this scene on a movie screen

Is it called a happy end?

If the world gets me

Where I'm supposed to be

Will I know I've made it then?

It's so hard

Can we skip to the good part?

AJR, The Good Part

[lizloveswords]

Love isn't big, kid It's little and quiet

AJR, Turning Out, pt. iii

[lizloveswords]

Real life is, to most men, a long second-best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible.

Bertrand Russell, A Free Man's Worship

[whendidmythoughtsgocrazy]

One day I will stop falling in love with you. Until I do, I'll be thinking of you.

k.b. // laufey, philharmonia orchestra - let you break my heart again

[lizloveswords]

You say I turned out fine. I think I'm still turning out.

AJR, Turning Out

[lizloveswords]

It is from common rather than individual consciousness - from generations of communal labor and not the passing whimsies of individuals - that the enduring features of human identity are born. We are above all creatures of time, defined by a history that we make together.

Benjamin R. Barber, Strong Democracy

[lizloveswords]

No matter if you're born To play the king or pawn For the line is thinly drawn between joy and sorrow So my fantasy becomes reality And I must be what I must be and face tomorrow.

Simon & Garfunkel, Flowers Never Bend With the Rainfall

[lizloveswords]

For no part of life, neither public affairs nor private, neither in the forum nor at home, neither when acting on our own nor in dealings with another, can be free from duty. Everything that is honorable in a life depends upon its cultivation, and everything dishonorable upon its neglect.

Cicero

[thehopefulquotes]

“I’m not into convincing people I’m worthy. I’m into people who’ll convince me on my worst days that I’m still worth the world.”

— Reyna Biddy

[thehopefulquotes]

“Don’t kill flowers growing inside of you for someone who doesn’t appreciate the way you bloom.”

— Billy Chapata

[stay-close]

“Today I forgive myself. Not just once. Again, and again, and again. As many times as it takes to find peace.”

— Unknown

[quotefeeling]

“At some point you just have to let go of what you thought should happen and live in what is happening.”

— Unknown