when pigs have wings

I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you.
– Friedrich Nietzsche

“That song you keep playing is nothing but a photograph you look at with your ears.”

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
- Tao Te Ching

I try & walk a line between terror & ecstasy, she said & then she shook her head. You'd be amazed at the people who avoid me for no good reason, other than that.
-story people

Don’t tell me who I am because unless I write all my thoughts down on a piece of paper and hand it to you, you don’t even know half my life. Isn’t it weird how you never seem to focus on what you like about a person but tend to notice every flaw they have?
— Unknown

Happy Thanksgiving!!

You would not believe your eyes
If ten million fireflies
Lit up the world as I fell asleep
-owl city

“the truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt.”
— Thomas Merton

Before the light I found the dark
Before tonight I fell apart
Frozen up I've realized that
something's gotta change

It took a crash to understand
Time kept slipping through my hands
I never used to know
The sun will shine after the rain

Say goodbye, say goodbye
to the way I was before
Say hello, say hello to a new way
I was lost, but I found what I was looking for
Waking up, waking up to a new day
To a new day

I was sleeping in a twisted dream
Dying just to make believe
A pretty situation was
far from where I was

But I'm not up for giving up
Lying down and out of luck
My mistakes are in the open
and know I'm finally coming clean

Say goodbye, say goodbye
to the way I was before
Say hello, say hello to a new way
I was lost, but I found
what I was looking for
Waking up, waking up to a new day

'Cause everything,
everything ends at the start
I'm healing and feeling all of my scars

Say goodbye, say goodbye
to the way I was before
Say hello, say hello to a new way
I was lost, but I found
what I was looking for
Waking up, waking up to a new day
To a new day
To a new day

"New Day"
Tamar Kaprelian

“I’ve lived through times I would never have thought I was capable of, and I’m much less afraid than I used to be. The process of wounding awakens us to our strength… It shuffles our values, and the top priority is never what you thought it would be. It’s never about perfection or power. It always turns out to be about love. Knowing ourselves to be vulnerable and our time here is limited, we’re freed to live more passionately and fully than we have before, to discover what’s worth fighting for and who we are…real strength lies buried at the depths of any wound we have survived.”

“Go be that starving Artist you’re afraid to be. Open up that journal and get poetic finally. Volunteer. Suck it up and travel. You were not born here to work and pay taxes. You were put here to be part of a vast organism to explore and create. Stop putting it off. The world has much more to offer than what’s on 15 televisions at TGI Fridays. Take pictures. Scare people. Shake up the scene. Be the change you want to see in the world. You’ll thank yourself for it.”
— Jason Mraz

I once had a garden filled with flowers that grew only on dark thoughts but they need constant attention & one day I decided I had better things to do.
-story people

“Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your heart or burn down your house, you can never tell.”
— Joan Crawford

“Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected.”
— Steve Jobs

“Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.

Hold fast to dreams
For when dreams go
Life is a barren field
Frozen with snow”
— Langston Hughes, Dreams

“Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.”
— Anne Frank

Because things change. And friends leave. And life doesn’t stop for anybody.
— The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“At least once a night
I will try to synchronize
my breathing to yours.”
-Daily Haiku on Love by Tyler Knott Gregson

I learned the hard way that I cannot always count on others to respect my feelings, even if I respect theirs. Being a good person doesn’t guarantee that others will be good people, too. You only have control over yourself and how you choose to be as a person. As for others, you can only choose to accept them or walk away.
Oh yes, the past can hurt. But the way I see it, you can either run from it or learn from it.
— Rafiki - The Lion King

It’s surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you’re not comfortable within yourself, you can’t be comfortable with others.
— Sidney J. Harris

“Love is saying ‘I feel differently’ instead of ‘You’re wrong.”

"I walk the balance between heaven and earth
Sometimes I soar
Often I slip
...but I am never alone"

“Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some people move our souls to dance. They awaken us to new understanding with the passing whisper of their wisdom. Some people make the sky more beautiful to gaze upon. They stay in our lives for awhile, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never ever the same.”
— Flavia Weedn

Remind me to live my dreams before I let routine take over.
Push me to go for it before I become the average.
Keep telling me all will be ok before I let details kill me.
Don't forget to embrace me before I stop believing in love.

How to Save Your Own Life
“Have pen, will travel”
1. Renounce useless guilt.
2. Don’t make a cult of suffering.
3. Live in the now (or at least the soon).
4. Always do the things you fear the most; courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
5. Trust all joy.
6. If the evil eye fixes you in its gaze, look elsewhere.
7. Get ready to be eighty-seven.
-Erica Jong

Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.
- Groucho Marx

How many people can you love before it's too much? she said & I said I didn't think there was any real limit as long as you didn't care if they loved you back.
-story people

"The blackest night will fall and I will be gone like the sun. But in the darkness, you will find something more important than me. You will find yourself, deep in that ink. The sky will lift you up like the moon, to bring light to a landscape starved of it. And I will chase you and you will chase me, in the hope that one day we will find each other again.
And when that day comes, we will cast our light.
Together"

A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special.
— Nelson Mandela

Life does not accommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn’t do it better. Every seed destroys its container or else there would be no fruition.
- Florida Scott-Maxwell

“The day I fell for you when I started all of this, I remember the exact moment. It’s been a long time, but I now know what that feels like again. The feeling that someone is going to change your life for good is like no other realization.
I will never forget the way it felt with you, but I am no longer trapped inside that memory. I now get to live that moment and not just look back at it.
This is goodbye to a time where you were what I always wanted.”
— Boy Meets Love

“Our notions about happiness entrap us. We forget that they are just ideas. Our idea of happiness can prevent us from actually being happy. We fail to see the opportunity for joy that is right in front of us when we are caught in a belief that happiness should take a particular form.”

make a birthday wish

"And I don’t understand by the way you look at me, why we can’t be together."

One time I was standing on a corner in Chicago & a man stopped his car & asked for directions to a place I knew & I said that's too easy, ask me something harder & he yelled & said he wasn't playing games kid & then he drove off & I think about him sometimes & wonder if he ever got there.
-story people

“Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it.”
— W. Clement Stone

"In your heart, you know what is right & what is wrong. You know what will ultimately move you ahead & what will hold you back. Though you may be very good at rationalizing against it, the truth is evident when you make the effort to look for it. Though others may be skilled at talking you out of it, you know what is best for your life. Go with your heart. Listen to that voice inside you, the one which makes the most sense & which, in retrospect, is almost always right. In a world where deceit too often is just another strategy, develop a habit of seeing the truth with your heart & not just your eyes. No matter who else might want to take credit for it, the fact is that you have succeeded in bringing yourself this far. And you are the person best equipped to move yourself positively into the future. The value of your life experience is not only in your mind, it is embedded in your heart. Look at the world with all the good that is within you, & you will see it with sparkling clarity."

“ Some people expect things to fall into their lap. Oh, they might work a bit for it. I’ll just shake that tree, and if I shake it long enough that pretty red apple will plop right into my hand. Never occurs to them that they might have to climb the tree, fall out a couple times, and get some scrapes and bruises before they get that apple. Because if the apple’s worth wanting, it’s worth risking a broken neck."
— Nicholas Sparks

"We’ve got this obsession with material things
As if heaven is ours if we’re buying our wings."

Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.
— Ayn Rand

“You want a new life. But you take the new one you get every morning for granted.”

“It was weird, I thought, how much you could have in common with someone, and, from a distance, never even know it.”
— Sarah Dessen

"If you don’t like the situation you’re in you need ask yourself a question. What am I doing to change it?"

“Those who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, usually do”
— Unknown

He only gets vicious when he watches too much tv, so we keep public radio on most of the time instead so mainly all we have to worry about is him going around to all the neighbors asking for money.
-story people

"The average person tells 4 lies a day, or 1460 a year a total of 88,000 by the age of 60. And the most common lie is: I’M FINE."

No hurt survives for long without our help, she said & then she kissed me & sent me out to play again for the rest of my life.
-story people

"All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried to tell me what it was. I accepted their answers too, though they were often in contradiction and even self-contradictory. I was naïve. I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer. It took me a long time and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born with: that I am nobody but myself."

“You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one. I hope someday you’ll join us. And the world will live as one.”
— John Lennon