...I SHOULD be cleaning my frat house, going to the grocery store, painting my nails, etc and so on etc and so on.

My ambition is handicapped by laziness.
― Charles Bukowski, Factotum

Just for the love of a passionate quote:

"I want to swim in the way you make me feel;
I want it to soak my clothes until they become a skin,
and I want that skin to soak into my bones.
I want to become the way it feels in the instant
you stare at me from across this crowded place."

~ Tyler Knott Gregson

" Without a reasonable amount of confidence in yourself, you can neither be happy nor successful." - Norman Vincent Peale

Confidence is preparation. Everything else is beyond your control.

Richard Kline

Lushness
 

“I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.”― Umberto Eco


“It's not what you say out of your mouth that determines your life,it's what you whisper to yourself that has the most power!” ― Robert T. Kiyosaki



“Sometimes it's not enough to know what things mean, sometimes you have to know what things don't mean.” - Unknown

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"It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are,
or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy.
It is what you think about." - Dale Carnegie

Smile until your face hurts.
 

"As we grow up, we learn that even the one person that wasn't supposed to ever let us down, probably will.
You'll have your heart broken and you'll break others' hearts.
You'll fight with your best friend or maybe even fall in love with them, and you'll cry because time is flying by.
So take too many pictures, laugh too much, forgive freely, and love like you've never been hurt.
Life comes with no guarantees, no time outs, no second chances you just have to live life to the fullest, tell someone what they mean to you and tell someone off, speak out, dance in the pouring rain, hold someone's hand, comfort a friend, fall asleep watching the sun come up, stay up late, be a flirt, and smile until your face hurts.
Don't be afraid to take chances or fall in love and most of all, live in the moment because every second you spend angry or upset is a second of happiness you can never get back."

~ Dr. Charlie Jansen

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"A true friend knows your weaknesses but shows you your strengths; feels your fears but fortifies your faith; sees your anxieties but frees your spirit; recognizes your disabilities but emphasizes your possibilities." William Arthur Ward

“You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.” - Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette


“Our ability to adapt is amazing. Our ability to change isn't quite as spectacular.”― Lisa Lutz


“Sometimes you weren't supposed to share pain. Sometimes it was best just to deal with it alone.” - Unknown

"Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect."
— George Santayana(f)

"My confidence always pulls me through the toughest of battle fields, and I somehow walk away confidently."
— Rose Mashigo(f)

~ Don't tell me ~~ show me ~ actions speak louder than words ~

_____BUT when she came up against me like silver foil all fragrance and warm presence - everything else was gone from my mind.

"If you judge people, you have no time to love them."
— Mother Teresa

"Your time is limited, don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living the result of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinion drown your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition, they somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary."
— Steve Jobs

"Perfect love is rare indeed -
for to be a lover will require
that you continually have
the subtlety of the very wise,
the flexibility of the child,
the sensitivity of the artist,
the understanding of the philosopher,
the acceptance of the saint,
the tolerance of the scholar and
the fortitude of the certain."
~Leo Buscaglia~

"The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it"
— Mark Twain

"I feel there are two people inside me - me and my intuition. If I go against her, she'll screw me every time, and if I follow her, we get along quite nicely."
— Kim Basinger

I slept before a wall of books and they
calmed everything in the room, even
their contents, even me, woken
by the cold and thrill, and still
they said, like the Dutch verb for falling
silent that English has no accommodation for
in the attics and rafters of its intimacies.

Zwijgen by Saskia Hamilton (1967)

“Everything happens for a reason. Just be patient.” ― Michael Christos Zeis

“Hope in the beginning feels like such a violation of the loss, and yet without it we couldn't survive.” ― Gail Caldwell


“So don't be frightened, dear friend, if a sadness confronts you larger than any you have ever known, casting its shadow over all you do. You must think that something is happening within you, and remember that life has not forgotten you; it holds you in its hand and will not let you fall. Why would you want to exclude from your life any uneasiness, any pain, any depression, since you don't know what work they are accomplishing within you?” ― Rainer Maria Rilke,

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
e. e. cummings

"Fear less; hope more. Eat less; chew more. Talk less; say more. Hate less; love more."
— Abigail Buren

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear."
— Ambrose Redmoon

"Suspicion amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they never fly by twilight."
— Francis Bacon