365 days of quotes

Hi! I'm Hailley and I am thoroughly addicted to quotes. I'll do my best to list a source to each quote or put it as "unknown" if I can't find out who the original speaker was. Enjoy! Also: Main blog

Do what you can now; forget what wasn't done then. - Skins

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  1. "Life is like music for its own sake. We are living in an eternal now, and when we listen to music we are not listening to the past, we are not listening to the future, we are listening to an expanded present."
    — Alan Watts (via philosophicalpoetry)
     
     
  2. "Most importantly, if you can at all avoid it, don’t be normal. Strive, burn and do everything you can to avoid being the industry standard. Even the highest industry standard. Be greater than anything anyone else has ever dreamed of you. Don’t settle for pats on the back, salary increases, a nod-and-a-smile. Instead, rage against the tepidness of the mundane with every fiber of whatever makes you, you. Change this place."
    — I Wrote This For You: The Defiance Of The Different (via kari-shma)
     
     
  3. "I thought, it’s a shame that we have to live, but it’s a tragedy that we get to live only one life, because if I’d had two lives, I would have spent one of them with her."
    — ― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (via lepier)
     
     
  4. "I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen."
    — John Steinbeck  (via ialwayslovedyoubestsid)

    (Source: accidentalism)

     
     
  5. "We mistake sex for romance. Guys are taught that pushing a girl up against a wall is romance. Sex is easy; you can do it with anyone, yourself, with batteries. Romance is when someone you like walks into a room and they take your breath away. Romance is when two people are dancing and they fit together perfectly. Romance is when two people are walking next to each other and all of a sudden they find themselves holding hands, and they don’t know how that happened."
    — John C. Moffi   (via brokenpromisesanddbrokenhearts)

    (Source: salveo)

     
     
  6. "The trouble is that you think you have time."
    — Buddha (via imfeelingdirectionlessyes)

    (Source: joc868)

     
     
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  8. Moving on isn’t easy, but it isn’t impossible.

    (Source: ohshititslorenzo)

     
     
  9. "But still, I find the need to remind myself of the temporariness of a day, to reassure myself that I got through yesterday, I’ll get through today."
    — Gayle Forman, Where She Went (via creatingaquietmind)

    (Source: larmoyante)

     
     
  10. "You cannot save people. You can only love them."
    — Anaïs Nin (via marchist)
     
     
  11. "I think that one of these days you’re going to have to find out where you want to go. And then you’ve got to start going there."
    — J.D. Salinger (via outcamethesun)

    (Source: bookmania)

     
     
  12. "Then I grew up, and the beauty of succulent illusions fell away from me. The fibre of my mind coarsened and my eyes grew miserably keen."
    — F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and the Damned (via thenameisflower)
     
     
  13. worthlessly: strawberrytelle: Take a second and think about the one thing that promotes attraction the most. I’ll give you a hint. The answer is not physical looks, wealth, having things in common, or even the person’s personality. I know, it’s crazy right? The answer is actually proximity. Study after study finds that most people tend to become attracted to people who are physically close to them. The theory is called the mere exposure effect, and it states that we tend to become attracted to a novel stimuli if it was repeated over and over again. I am sure you once saw a very attractive person who caught your attention while passing by your car, then you never saw him/her again. Why do most people forget about that very attractive person a few days later? Simply because they never see that person again. If the stimuli wasn’t reinforced we tend to forget about it even if we liked it. It really is true. Just talking to someone a lot can do so much. You may not even see it coming. But If you spend a considerable amount of time with someone, you could be friends one day, and before you know it, you’ve completely fallen head over heals in love with each other. Maybe this has happened to you. You can’t fight it, but why would you want to? It’s a beautiful thing, really. oh 

    worthlessly:

    strawberrytelle:

    Take a second and think about the one thing that promotes attraction the most. I’ll give you a hint. The answer is not physical looks, wealth, having things in common, or even the person’s personality. I know, it’s crazy right? The answer is actually proximity. Study after study finds that most people tend to become attracted to people who are physically close to them. The theory is called the mere exposure effect, and it states that we tend to become attracted to a novel stimuli if it was repeated over and over again. I am sure you once saw a very attractive person who caught your attention while passing by your car, then you never saw him/her again. Why do most people forget about that very attractive person a few days later? Simply because they never see that person again. If the stimuli wasn’t reinforced we tend to forget about it even if we liked it. It really is true. Just talking to someone a lot can do so much. You may not even see it coming. But If you spend a considerable amount of time with someone, you could be friends one day, and before you know it, you’ve completely fallen head over heals in love with each other. Maybe this has happened to you. You can’t fight it, but why would you want to? It’s a beautiful thing, really.

    oh 

    (Source: staypozitive)