this little life of mine

Quotes, thoughts and pictures that make up my life.

[my-life-quote]

Almost.
It’s a big word for me. I feel it everywhere. Almost home. Almost happy. Almost changed. Almost, but not quite. Not yet. Soon, maybe. I’m hoping hard for that.

Joan Bauer

[my-life-quote]

Anything that costs you your peace is too expensive.

Jackie Dorman

[my-life-quote]

Maybe I was being too picky. Maybe I didn’t want to be close to anyone. Maybe I’d just be the type who couldn’t feel love all the way or something. I couldn’t tell what was wrong, but what was wrong was that it just wasn’t right.

Deb Caletti

[my-life-quote]

Some people enter your life in a whirlwind and no matter how hard you try you can’t stop thinking about them, even after they leave…especially after they leave.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

[my-life-quote]

Accept that this experience taught you something you didn’t want to know. Accept that sorrow and strife are part of even a joyful life. Accept that it’s going to take a long time for you to get that monster out of your chest. Accept that someday what pains you now will surely pain you less.

Cheryl Strayed

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I could snuggle for hours….

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[meredithbklyn]

This is the thing: When you hit 28 or 30, everything begins to divide. You can see very clearly two kinds of people. On one side, people who have used their 20s to learn and grow, to find … themselves and their dreams, people who know what works and what doesn’t, who have pushed through to become real live adults. Then there’s the other kind, who are hanging onto college, or high school even, with all their might. They’ve stayed in jobs they hate, because they’re too scared to get another one. They’ve stayed with men or women who are good but not great, because they don’t want to be lonely. … they mean to develop intimate friendships, they mean to stop drinking like life is one big frat party. But they don’t do those things, so they live in an extended adolescence, no closer to adulthood than when they graduated. Don’t be like that. Don’t get stuck. Move, travel, take a class, take a risk. There is a season for wildness and a season for settledness, and this is neither. This season is about becoming. Don’t lose yourself at happy hour, but don’t lose yourself on the corporate ladder either. Stop every once in a while and go out to coffee or climb in bed with your journal. Ask yourself some good questions like: “Am I proud of the life I’m living? What have I tried this month? … Do the people I’m spending time with give me life, or make me feel small? Is there any brokenness in my life that’s keeping me from moving forward?” Now is your time. Walk closely with people you love, and with people who believe life is a grand adventure. Don’t get stuck in the past, and don’t try to fast-forward yourself into a future you haven’t yet earned. Give today all the love and intensity and courage you can, and keep traveling honestly along life’s path.

Relevant magazine  (via laurenarlene)

At 28, this is so accurate.

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[my-life-quote]

There’s a trick to the “graceful exit.” It begins with the vision to recognize when a job, a life stage, or a relationship is over — and let it go. It means leaving what’s over without denying its validity or its past importance to our lives. It involves a sense of future, a belief that every exit line is an entry, that we are moving up, rather than out.

Ellen Goodman

[delta-breezes]

[my-life-quote]

stepping onto a brand new path is difficult, but not more difficult than remaining in a situation, which is not nurturing to the whole woman.

Maya Angelou

[other-side-of-midnight]

[skullxcrusher-deactivated201501]

nostalgia is a liar. nothing was ever as good as you remember it to be. there’s a reason you don’t talk to that person anymore, there’s a reason you’re not part of each other’s lives. don’t trust nostalgia. grieve. reflect. move on.

[my-life-quote]

Self,

Stop remembering just the good times. The bad times also happened, and they were so real and at times they were unbearable.

You deserve better than this. You are better than this.

[wnq-movies]

I have to ask you a question. It’s a good one so think about it. If two people love each other, but they just can’t seem to get it together, when do you get to that point of enough is enough? Never.

The Mexican Movie (2001), Dir. Gore Verbinski  (via wordsnquotes)

This quote has come across my dash multiple times. And it has always kind of rubbed me the wrong way or felt a bit off. Perhaps because I habitually stay way too long in relationships when the writing has been on the wall and incompatibilities blatantly obvious for a while. I’m all for acknowledging a soul connection, but we have more power than this. Love doesn’t rule all. Our self love and dedication to nurturing healthy relationships does. As someone who regrets (yes. regrets. I have them and don’t believe in the whole *~* no regrets!*~* mentality) spending years trying to “get it together” and working towards something I knew in my gut was futile, I want to say that it is okay to walk away from that connection. Brave, even. Enough truly is enough sometimes.

(via redcatinsanfrancisco)

Self, remember this.

[my-life-quote]

I hope you have the courage to pursue someone who is worth pursuing, and not someone who is convenient. Convenience is impatience disguised as your desires, you are worth more than what time has told you, you are worthy of finding someone who will wait for you; don’t settle for what is easy, settle for what is good.

T.B. LaBerge

[my-life-quote]

[my-life-quote]

Love is so short, forgetting is so long.

Pablo Neruda