February 2012
27. Stop trying to be everything to everyone.
– Doing so is impossible, and trying will only burn you out. But making one person smile CAN change the world. Maybe not the whole world, but their world. So narrow your focus.
“It’s true, I am afraid of dying. I am afraid of the world moving forward without...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer (via troubled)
“Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson. (via carouselinparis)
“Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.”
– Bill Cosby (via misswallflower)
“The artist’s job is not to succumb to despair but to find an antidote for the...”
– Gertrude Stein, Midnight in Paris (via ravenzwart)
“Meaning and morality of one’s life come from within oneself. Healthy, strong...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche (via troubled)
“Welcome to a life of insecurity and paralyzing self-doubt.”
– Seth Cohen, The O.C. (via misswallflower)
“What we call our destiny is truly our character and that character can be...”
– Anaïs Nin (via troubled)
“For indeed my life is a perpetual question mark – my thirst for books, my...”
– Anaïs Nin (via troubled)
“Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child...”
– Ray Bradbury (via troubled)
