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The Ill At Easel

This is not where art and commerce meet. This is where commerce slips something in art’s drink. Steel coffins, gears grinding with glee. There’s space on the conveyor belt for one more. This one’s old and rusted, jaded and the green has faded. We need more bright dreams to sell. Who knows. It could be you.

via I Wrote This For You

The Perfect Apathy

You remember and dwell on all the things you’ve lost and ignore all the things you haven’t. Because your scars are like stars. Yet the night stays perfectly black. I Wrote This For You

“ We can make plans
Of which will never unfold
So I’d rather just dance.

— Rediscover - Won’t Let You Down

(via meerweh)

The Princess Is In Another Castle

You cannot go back in time, even if you wish it with every fiber of your being, your heart and soul, even if you think about it every day. Trust me. I know.

via I Wrote This For You

The Well of Dreams

To wake up next to you. And confirm that the images I saw on the back of my eyelids seconds before, have all been made real.

via I Wrote This For You

“ We all suffer from negativity bias, that is, we react to the bad more strongly and persistently than to the comparable good. Research shows one consequence of negativity bias is that when people’s thoughts wander, they tend to begin to brood. Anxious or angry thoughts capture our attention more effectively than happier thoughts.

— Gretchen Rubin, “What’s Your “Comfort Food” Activity?”

“ Here’s to everything
coming down to nothing.
Here’s to silence
that cuts me to the core.
Where is this going?
I thought I knew, but I don’t anymore.

— Taylor Swift - Forever & Always

“ The secret is not to care.

— Gretchen Rubin

How to be Happier - In Four Easy Lessons

First Splendid Truth
To be happier, you have to think about feeling good, feeling bad, and feeling right, in an atmosphere of growth.

Second Splendid Truth
One of the best ways to make yourself happy is to make other people happy;
One of the best ways to make other people happy is to be happy yourself.

Third Splendid Truth
The days are long, but the years are short. (click the link to see my one-minute movie)

Fourth Splendid Truth
You’re not happy unless you think you’re happy.
corollary: You’re happy if you think you’re happy.
[Many argue the opposite case. John Stuart Mill, for example, wrote, “Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.” I disagree.]

via Gretchen Rubin

“ I am not much given to playing ‘If I had’ of ‘If I hadn’t,’ much preferring to stay with ‘It would have happened anyway.’ But that last is usually a lie, and I am not one to kid myself. I am sorry I went to Paris, because when I returned I was full of myself and starved for more of me. Or am I sorry? I do not know. I am mixed up. But I do know that there have been many years when I wished I could have walked into that little group at the airport, never to emerge again. I see them – the husband who looked like Montgomery Clift in his Harrods’ raincoat, the nurse in her white uniform, the little girl dancing in her hair ribbons, and the baby bulwarked in her diapers – and they haunt me, still there, still waiting at Kennedy.

— Mary Cantwell, Manhattan, When I Was Young via Gretchen Rubin

Current State of Being: "Drifting"

Drift is the decision you make by not deciding, or by making a decision that unleashes consequences for which you don’t take responsibility.

I tried to make a list of warning signs for myself:

— Thinking “This situation can’t go on,” but then it does go on.
— Complaining a lot about a situation without working to find ways to make it better.
— Hoping that some catastrophe or upheaval will arise to blow up a situation, e.g., fantasizing that you’ll break your leg or be transferred to another city.
— Feeling that other people or processes are moving events forward, and you’re being passively carried along.
— Getting the urge to do or have something because the people around you are doing it or want it. One of my Secrets of Adulthood is “Just because something is fun for someone else doesn’t mean it’s fun for you – and vice versa.”

Read full article, “A Problem in Happiness: Drift”

“ How did I become so obnoxious?
What is it with you that makes me act like this?
I’ve never been this nasty.
Can’t you tell that this is all just a contest?
The one that wins will be the one that hits the hardest.

— Please Don’t Leave Me - Pink

“ You can’t be afraid to fail. It’s the only way you succeed. You’re not going to succeed all the time and I know that. You have to be able to accept failure to get better.

— Lebron James (via sixty minutes interview)

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