today i discovered...

that "School destroyed my passion for learning" - Me.

"Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand." - Albert Einstein

"It is almost a miracle that modern teaching methods have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiousity of inquiry; for what this delicate little plant needs more than anything, besides stimulation, is freedom" - Albert Einstein

Invictus

"Forgiveness starts here too. Forgiveness liberates the soul. It removes fear. That is why it's such a powerful weapon."

"how do we inspire ourselves to greatness, when nothing else will do? how do we inspire everyone around us? I sometimes think it's by using the works of others"

"we need inspiration. b/c in order to build our nation, we must exceed all our own expectations"

"times change, and we need to change as well"

what makes you stronger...

choice. when faced with a difficult situation...you always have a choice......

in the end, either choose to be stifled, or choose to become stronger from what you've weathered.

what doesn't kill you, can only make you stronger.

hope.

and i pray, i pray, that this time around it might work out.

sewing

"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant."

Night.

"Man is too insignificant, too limited, to even try to comprehend God's mysterious ways."

- Elie Wiesel

friends.

have you ever noticed how the word 'friends' can't be spelt without "i end"?

think about it.

postage stamps

"Be like a postage stamp, stick to it until you get there."

- Phil Callaway on perseverance

well well well...

"and you come away, with a great little story.

Of a mess of a dreamer, with the nerve to adore you..."

-t.swift

.hb

"and i've lost my faith in people,

the ground beneath is caving in.

I though it'd never be this way,

but I guess those thoughts were wrong."

-H.B.

lovely bones

"because horror on earth is real and it is everyday. It is like a flower or like the sun; it cannot be contained"

(Sebold, The Lovely Bones)

hiding

"and once again, i'll surround myself with busy-ness, as not to face the pain that keeps coming up when i'm alone." - anonymous

"Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them." - Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper