Don't Let It Bring You Down
Posted by Jess is Jess , Saturday, January 30, 2010 Saturday, January 30, 2010
It has been a rough couple of days and I am feeling exceedingly uninspired.
However, I refuse to be defeated.
You might think that I have some sort of irrepresable sunny disposition but you would be wrong. You might also think that I'm totally delusional.
Here you would be wrong again.
I'm only mildly delusional and I chose to be sunny because I hate feeling bad/angry/sad more than anything. I detest having knots in my stomach or feeling my heart ache. It's the worst and I refuse to feel that way for long.
I do think that is essential that you allow yourself to feel those crappy feelings in order to move past them and that is exactly what I am going to do.
A dear friend of mine once noted that I make myself calenders when I am feeling overwhelmed and he couldn't have been more correct. Writing out what I have to do when is one of the best ways that I know to get my head on straight and to focus.
This is not the method that I am choosing today.
Today I'm going to share some quotes that warm my soul.
“Those who can soar to the highest heights can also plunge to the deepest depths, and the natures which enjoy most keenly are those which also suffer most sharply”
"And people laugh at me because I use big words. But if you have big ideas you have to use big words to express them, haven't you?"
"Marilla, isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?"
"Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive--it's such an interesting world. It wouldn't be half so interesting if we know all about everything, would it? There'd be no scope for imagination then, would there?"
“As a rule, I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted.”
“We must have ideals and try to live up to them, even if we never quite succeed. Life would be a sorry business without them. With them it's grand and great.”
“I am well in body although considerable rumpled up in
spirit, thank you ma'am.”
"A little kingdom I possess, where thoughts and feelings dwell; And very hard the task I find of governing it well."
"I like to help women help themselves, as that is, in my opinion, the best way to settle the woman question. Whatever we can do and do well we have a right to, and I don't think any one will deny us."
"Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won."
"Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us - and those around us - more effectively. Look for the learning."
"We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving, and we all have the power to make wishes come true, as long as we keep believing."
“It was the love of love,
the love that swallows up all else,
a grateful love,
a love of nature, of people,
of animals,
a love engendering
gentleness and goodness
that moved me
and that I saw in you.”
“Hold back the edges of your gowns, Ladies, we are going through hell.”
here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows
higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart
i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart)
Truman Capote
"I don't want to own anything until I know I've found the place where me and things belong together. I'm not quite sure where that is just yet. But I know what it's like.... It's like Tiffany's...."
"But you can't give your heart to a wild thing: the more you do, the stronger they get. Until they're strong enough to run into the woods. Or fly into a tree. Then a taller tree. Then the sky. That's how you'll end up.... If you let yourself love a wild thing. You'll end up looking at the sky. "
"They're certainly entitled to think that, and they're entitled to full respect for their opinions... but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience."
"The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom, be he any color of the rainbow, but people have a way of carrying their resentments right into a jury box."
"I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks."
"It's lovely to live on a raft. We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made or only just happened."
"Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot."
"And as I sat there brooding on the old, unknown world, I thought of Gatsby's wonder when he first picked out the green light at the end of Daisy's dock. He had come a long way to this blue lawn, and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him, somewhere back in that vast obscurity beyond the city, where the dark fields of the republic rolled on under the night. Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter - tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms further... And one fine morning - So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."
"I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine."
"Elizabeth, having rather expected to affront him, was amazed at his gallantry; but there was a mixture of sweetness and archness in her manner which made it difficult for her to affront anybody; and Darcy had never been so bewitched by any woman as he was by her. He really believed, that were it not for the inferiority of her connections, he should be in some danger."
"I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book!"
"Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion."
"Adieu to disappointment and spleen. What are men to rocks and mountains."
"You are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes are unchanged, but one word from you will silence me on this subject for ever."
"I cannot fix on the hour, or the look, or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun."
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ee cummings,
f. scott fitzgerald,
harper lee,
jane austen,
louisa may alcott,
lucy maud montgomery,
mark twain,
truman capote,
william carlos williams
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