November 2011
2 posts
“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
– Mae West
October 2011
3 posts
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“Being a leader is like being a lady, if you have to go around telling people you...”
– Margaret Thatcher
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Stumbled Upon
I always seem to stumble upon books I haven’t read in a while, especially classics. I am a huge fan of Ayn Rand and found my copy of Atlas Shrugged yesterday. Unsurprisingly it is incredibly worn with highlighting throughout.
I thought I would share one of my favorite quotes.
“I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another...
August 2011
5 posts
“in this world, love has no color— yet how deeply my body is stained by yours.”
– Izumi Shikibu (via withoutyourkiss)
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A Tribute to Border's Bookstore
Border’s: A Tribute to a Store that will Never be Forgotten.
Take a deep breath, take a look around you, take in all that you see, because the things that exist now may not exist 5 - 10 - or 20 years from now.
When large bookstores came into the picture many people cautioned “This will be the end of the independent bookstores.” This may have been true for a majority of small...
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“Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one’s soul,...”
– John Keats, in a letter to John Hamilton Reynolds dated February 3, 1818. (via bookoasis)
“When you’re struggling with something, look at all the people around you...”
– - Nicholas Sparks
July 2011
2 posts
June 2011
1 post
Slow Down..... You're Moving Way too Fast
The world is a fast car and doesn’t slow down for hitchhikers. When life hits you smack in the face it performs a hit and run, never slowing down to see if you’re ok.
Your life is in your hands. Take Control. Get back up after you fall down. Learn to make the right choices, and comeback from the wrong ones. Don’t feel sorry for yourself when handed a lousy deck…. find...
May 2011
1 post
““I have a history of making decisions very quickly about men. I have...”