-wishlist -new ballet shoes -an oversized sweater -patterned tights -oversized glasses -headbands -crocheted boots -a new ipod -v neck tees
to-do -finish college apps -go to the zoo -knit a sweater -cut my hair goals -join a professional dance company -live in France -get married -find an apartment of my own -learn to knit socks -learn to ride a unicycle -have perfect skin -learn to make coffee make it Columbia College Chicago
favourites
book: A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray song:Baby I'm a Star by Prince band: Dashboard Confessionals movie: 500 Days of Summer season: Autumn. food: clam chowder. animal: otters.
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01:
"I'll tell you something. This is your one chance. You're going off to college soon, and this is your one and only chance to leave. Get out. I don't care where you go; the Midwest, California, Hell, just go. Get out there and see the world. Cause after college, you're gonna need to have an actual life. And then life passes you out. Take this chance. Because I can promise you, you won't get another." -Elizabeth Coleman
02:
A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.
03:
you have to choose between what the world expects from you
and what you want for youself.
04:
I may still not know what I want to do when I grow up, but I do want to live in a house filled with books and travel souvenirs. And the walls that aren't covered in bookshelves will be covered with photos of my family and friends. When I leave the house, I will be going to a job I love, and I'll return to a person I love. So, that's the dream I'm working on.
05:
And maybe someday I'll believe that
we are all a part of some bigger plan.
But, tonight I just don't give a damn.
If the world is ending, I'm throwing the party.
06:
Find a great song, whether it's disco, or pop or punk, or whatever.
Just turn up your stereo as high as it goes and dance.
And if you have to, keep dancing until you lose yourself,
or until you find yourself again.
07:
"May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness.
I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone
who thinks you're wonderful, and don't forget to make some art--
write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can;
and I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself." -Neil Gaiman
08:
“The most beautiful person in the world is not the person most people find beautiful, but rather the person you find the most beauty in.” – Adam Ghantous
09:
"Don't envy anybody. Every person has something no one else has. Develop that one thing in yourself, and make it outstanding. Another year is fast approaching. Go be that starving artist you’re afraid to be. Open up that journal and get poetic finally. Volunteer. Suck it up and travel. You were not born here to work and pay taxes. You were put here to be part of a vast organism to explore and create. Stop putting it off. The world has much more to offer than what’s on 15 televisions at TGI Fridays. Take pictures. Scare people. Shake up the scene. Be the change you want to see in the world."
-Jason Mraz
10:
"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined." -Henry David Thoreau
you need to love yourself before you can expect anyone else to love you. you need to be happy with who you are alone before you can ever expect be happy with anyone else.
i'm sick of seeing everyone jump from one relationship to the next because they can't deal with their own thoughts. if you are constantly scrutinizing the way you look, wanting to change every little thing, wishing you were more popular, or more beautiful, or more curvaceous, or thinner, or wish you had a love story worthy of Nicholas Sparks... obsessions like these do not lead to happy relationships. they lead to addictions, not addictions to drugs or alcohol, but addictions to significant others, an addiction to false love that helps you forget how much you really hate yourself. it leads to a relationship where you are abused and taken advantage of because both parties know you would never leave on your own.
please, say this to yourself every time you doubt:
"I thank [God/the world/the powers that be] for my radiant beauty, and everlasting happiness."
you do not need another human being to make you happy. you can be happy with your own person. once you reach that stage, any other person is just a bonus to this beautiful thing called life. -creditme.
so... i don't remember the last time i used Xanga. actually, i don't really remember how to use Xanga at all. i don't remember any of the html for layouts, or any of the other little shortcuts. this may in fact be my last post, unless i get any recognition (meaning some damn comments lol). if i can get at least 5 comments, i'll revamp this entire quotesite, update you guys on what's been happening in my life since the last time i posted, and have a new quote/image update every week :D sound like a good deal? i think so too :)
It's easier for you to judge, than it is for you to understand. It's easier for you to bewilder at my mysteries, than it is for you to probe deeply into the depths of my soul. And it's easier for me to walk alone, than it is to risk rejection. If only you'd really look at me and see who I am. But it's the easy roads that are most often taken. And so I hurt, ...alone. "when i'm hurting" by Jo A. Witt
I look upon her face lying on my pillow Lit by the light of my bedroom window Wrapped within my gentle arms Knowing she will come to no harm I look upon her face staring into mine Filling my body as if it were wine I close her eyes with gentle kisses For she has answered all my wishes. "i look upon her" by Raven
I am thinking of a fairy tale, Cinder Elephant, Sleeping Tubby, Snow Weight, where the princess is not anorexic, wasp-waisted, flinging herself down the stairs. I am thinking of a fairy tale, Hansel and Great, Repoundsel, Bounty and the Beast, where the beauty has a pillowed breast, and fingers plump as sausage.
I am thinking of a fairy tale that is not yet written, for a teller not yet born, for a listener not yet conceived, for a world not yet won, where everything round is good: the sun, wheels, cookies, and the princess. "fat is not a fairy tale" by Jane Yolen (i heard this performed once and it made me smile. i am hardly the kind of girl the poem is talking about, but my god, Jane has a point).
They fight all the time; It's fun What do I owe you? Let's start with an apology Ok, I'm sorry, you dickhead. A sign is held up saying "Laughter." (It's a silent picture). "I've been fucked without a kiss," she says, "and you can quote me on that," which sounds great in an English accent. "when a woman loves a man" by David Lehman (this entire poem is absolutely beautiful in a messed-up sort of way, go look it up :D).
“Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won’t adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is to sign on as its accomplice. Instead of vowing to honor and obey, maybe we should swear to aid and abet. That would mean that security is out of the question. The words “make” and “stay” become inappropriate. My love for you has no strings attached. I love you for free.” – Tom Robbins
"My friends have made the story of my life. In a thousand ways they have turned my limitations into beautiful privileges and enabled me to walk serene and happy in the shadow cast by my desperation." - Helen Keller
"Don't envy anybody. Every person has something no one else has. Develop that one thing in yourself, and make it outstanding. Another year is fast approaching. Go be that starving artist you’re afraid to be. Open up that journal and get poetic finally. Volunteer. Suck it up and travel. You were not born here to work and pay taxes. You were put here to be part of a vast organism to explore and create. Stop putting it off. The world has much more to offer than what’s on 15 televisions at TGI Fridays. Take pictures. Scare people. Shake up the scene. Be the change you want to see in the world." — Jason Mraz (i <3 him).
UPDATE: 500+ plus footprints so far this week?! that's fantastic, but i'm not getting any feedback. y'all make me sad :/
It has been said that we need just three things in life: something to do, something to look forward to, and someone to love.
But love is none of these things.
It won't suddenly make every day okay. It won't change who you are.
It won't make your car go faster. It doesn't even wash your dishes. All love is, is love. And that's all it needs to be, really.
You don't need to change, a thing about you babe, I'm tellin you, from where I sit you're one of a kind Relationships, I don't know why, they never work out, and they make you cry, but the guy that says goodbye to you is out of his mind.
"It is absurd to divide people into good and bad.
People are either charming or tedious." -Oscar Wilde
"Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.
Talent will not; nothing is more common
than unsuccessful men with talent.
Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.
Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts.
Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
The slogan, 'press on' has solved, and always will solve,
the problems of the human race." -Calvin Coolidge
And I'll be by your sidewherever you fall in the dead of nightwhenever you calland please don't fight these hands that are holding you,my hands are holding you."Some people say you're going the wrong way, when it’s simply a way of your own." - Angelina JolieI can't do everything, but I'll do anything for you. I can't do anything except be in love with you.Maybe I should've seen the signs, Should've read the writing on the wall And realized by the distance in your eyes That I would be the one to fall No matter what you say, I still can't believe that you would walk away.Well, you can fall for chains of silver; you can fall for chains of gold. You can fall for pretty strangers and the promises they hold. You promised me everything, you promised me thick and thin. Now you just say, "Oh, Juliet? Yeah, you know, I used to have a scene with her."
is a sign from you that you think of me if you don't then please just say so Cause all I do is think
of you.
I used to cry because I didn't think I was loved. Now I cry because I don't think I deserve to be.
You want to stay with me in the morning. You want to hold me when I sleep. I was meant to tred the waters, now I've gotten in too deep.
Screaming and saying fuck a lot doesn't really get your point across. Sometimes silence is the most violent option to choose.
You stand so close. Do you do this on purpose?
You're close, but not close enough.
Come closer or just walk away.
Stay and watch the stars come out, and then the sun as they all fade away I'll sing you every song I know if it will make you want to stay And then I'll say that I missed you And these words, they'll convince you, to stay -"Your Song" by Mayday Parade
You put on a good show...but I’d be willing to bet that you're suffering more than you let anyone see.
Everybody’s talking in words I don't understand you got to be the only one who knows just who I am your shinin in the distance I hope I can make it through Cause the only place that I want to be is right back home with you.
Consider the postage stamp; its usefulness consists
in the ability to stick to one thing until it gets there.
I want to be the girl who he thinks is the cutest. Not necessarily the "hottest" or the "prettiest", but the cutest. Because hotness refers to the body, and god knows mine isn't perfect. Pretty refers to the face and I know plenty of girls prettier than me. But cuteness is referring to every imperfection that he loves. Every weird little habit. The funny little things that make me different from every other girl he could have. Like how I have a dorky laugh, or I can't watch gory movies, or the way my hair smells. All of the little things that he notices and adores. I want to be that girl.
My name is irrelevent to the content of this site, but one of my good friends likes to call me Xanadu since i "remind him of exotic tea." i am 18 and wish i could remain at this perfect age forever. i like pretty things, and my goal in life is to become a dancer/yoga instructor, live in a small studio apartment in the city, and to always be surrounded by good and interesting company.
