the walls of my prison crumble
as the walls of my castle appear
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Down-mid-uptown
I’m a coffee is half-full kind of girl.
Everyone, everywhere
Hate less, live longer.
Blind cheerfulism
“At any rate, I remain cheerful — if only through some inner necessity. Cheerfulness will prevail. I believe it in my bones… While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he was sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness is not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful.”
—H. G. Wells, Apropos of Dolores, 1938
Blessomancy
Every day, spread the magical stardust of thankfulness into your life.
Upward
I am not a wing
but a feather —
I can’t fly, however
all of us together
we can, by rising
do almost anything!
Common denominator
“We are all, in the course of a lifetime, a half dozen different people, bound together by memories of the same childhood.”
—Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
Sick day
Some days we can only hope
that Death has called in sick.
Two steps forward, one stumble backward
There are two sides to every story. Even my own story. Probably every story I’ve ever told myself.
Quits
If you let go of the things you’re addicted to, your pains will let go of you.
Carpe Diem
Youth is a Budd
Life is a flower
Springs in a Moment
Dyes in an hour.
Time is as Sand
Flesh is as glass
Sand quick is Run
Life soon doth pass.
—Author Unknown—
source: wellcomecollection.org
So tired!
“I have been awfully busy… And it tires me so that generally
—Lewis Carroll, 1879
Binding years
“The knowledge of my years is ever with me, a sort of binding torment, like an armhole that is
—Kate Trimble Sharber, At the Age of Eve, 1911