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As I’ve mentioned before, I’ve occasionally heard before that there are no good movies to watch on Netflix Instant movies. Since I beg to differ, and after the last post’s popularity, I’ve made a list of random comedies, dramas, and just general good movies to…
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A manic depressive happy summer playlist, featuring my favorite folk rock, alternative indie jams as of late. Includes Angus Young, Middle Brother, & more.
The First Website Ever
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Thinking that I would find you,
thinking I would make the plane
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I drove into the city. (Flight by Anne Sexton)
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About
My name is Jessie & this is my blog. I live just outside of Kansas City. I rant about all kinds of things, like design, books, art, poetry, music, true crime & much more.
My name is Jessie & this is my blog.
I live just outside of Kansas City.
I rant about all kinds of things, like design, books, art, poetry, music, true crime & much more.
Death has nothing to do with going away. The sun sets and the moon sets, but they are not gone. Death is a coming together.
— Rumi
The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
She likes the idea of being a dog...She can run free if she wants. She can be a body and instinct and urge. She can be hunger and rage, thirst and fear, nothing more.
They sat for a while easy together and talked as people do in the ruins of the past, having the unavoidable feeling that we are a short time here, a long time gone.
— Charles Frazier, Cold Mountain
In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
— Albert Camus
Don't you bully me with your politeness! Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God is hard to believe, ask any believer. What is your problem with hard to believe?
— Yann Martel, Life of Pi
I intend to live forever, or die trying.
— Groucho Marx
In actuality they were neither of them old men; their arms were still wiry with muscle, their backs straight and strong, and yet they had surpassed the mean, the center mark of their lives, and were both aware of an overall dimming.
One moment can change a day, one day can change a life and one life can change the world.
— Buddha
Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.
— Helen Keller
I am free and that is why I am lost.
— Franz Kafka
No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.
— Robin Williams
The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
— Alan Watts
Other horses would follow, but this was a once-in-a-lifetime animal. There would be no replacing him once he was gone.
— Michael Blake, Dances With Wolves
The problem is that we live in an uptight country. Why don’t we just laugh at ourselves? We are funny. Gays are funny. Straights are funny. Women are funny. Men are funny. We are all funny, and we all do funny things. Let’s laugh about it.
— Bob Newhart
Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.
— Pablo Picasso
It always seems impossible until it's done.
— Nelson Mandela
You don't find love, it finds you. It's got a little bit to do with destiny, fate and what's written in the stars.
Love what you do and do what you love. Don’t listen to anyone else who tells you not to do it. You do what you want, what you love. Imagination should be the center of your life.
— Ray Bradbury
There is a place in the heart that will never be filled; a space. And even during the best moments, and the greatest times, we will know it.
— Charles Bukowski
I tasted disappointment like metal in my mouth.
— Anna North, Outlawed
It’s a good reminder that I’m still an addict, actually, because a normal person probably wouldn’t look at this poor woman covered in sores and think, Wow, that looks amazing. But I see past her sores to the memory of a feeling now lost to me. I see surrender.
— Melissa Broder, Death Valley
Sometimes the soul takes pictures of things it has wished for, but never seen.
— Anne Sexton
One of the advantages of being disorganized is that one is always having surprising discoveries.
— A.A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh
It was yesterday, or it was a thousand years ago. There wasn’t really a difference. Time was a swamp inside a giant washing machine.
When she asked the birds what to do, they answered that they didn't know anything about love, that love was a distinctly human defect which God had created to counterbalance the power of human greed.
To say the things i want to say to you would be a crime.
To admit i'm still in love with you
after all this time
i'd rather let you touch my arm until you die.
Seduce me with your charms until i'm drunk on them go home and drink in bed
and never let myself love like that again.
— Sharon Van Etten, A Crime
The Devil went off to take care of other business. He had to, with three or four expensive drug habits to support. Like a lot of people in those days, the Devil had discovered escape. Like a lot of people, he felt the world had become the kind of place that needed escaping from.
A great sorrow, and one that I am only beginning to understand: we don’t get to choose our own hearts. We can’t make ourselves want what’s good for us or what’s good for other people. We don’t get to choose the people we are.
You can not hide from the world. It will find you. It always does. And now it has found me. My split second of immortality is over. All that's left now is the end, which is all any of us ever has.
— Drew Magary, The Postmortal
He keeps his deepest belief tight to him: that people are good and want to be good, if only you give them a chance.
— Lauren Groff, Arcadia
The only thing harder than seeing yourself grow old is seeing the people you’ve loved grow old.
— Sigrid Nunez, What Are You Going Through
And the people I have hurt, the mistakes I have made, the damage to myself and others, wasn’t poor judgement; it was the place where love had hardened into loss.
