when pigs have wings

“A fashionable woman is always in love - with herself.”
- La Rochefoucauld

“Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.”
- Dorothea Lange

Most of us can forgive and forget; we just don’t want the other person to forget that we forgave
— Ivern Ball

“If I had my life to live over again, I would start barefoot earlier in the spring and stay that way later in the fall.”

- Nadine Stair

“I think of you as a person on a quest. I think of you as someone who is figuring things out under difficult circumstances. Despite the fact that I am falling in love with you, I think that I am likely to be a brief chapter in this quest. I want you to keep sight of that.”
- Gabrielle Zevin, Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac

“You ever look at a picture of yourself and see a stranger in the background? You know, it makes you wonder how many strangers have pictures of you. How many momets of other people’s lives we’ve been in? Were we a part of someone’s life when their dreams came true? Or when their dreams died?”

willing to surrender for treats as often as necessary
- story people

“Conformity is death.”
- Claude Monet

“Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it’s amazing what they can accomplish.”
- Sam Walton

After that, it got pretty late and we both had to go, but it was great seeing Annie again and I realized what a terrific person she was and how much fun it was just knowing her…and I thought of that old joke, you know, the, this guy goes to a psychiatrist and says, ‘Doc, uh, my brother’s crazy, he thinks he’s a chicken,’ and uh, the doctor says, ‘Well why don’t you turn him in?’ And the guy says, ‘I would, but I need the eggs.’ Well, I guess that’s pretty much now how I feel about relationships. You know, they’re totally irrational and crazy and absurd and - but uh, I guess we keep going through it…because…most of us need the eggs.
— Annie Hall

“Making eye contact with adults while dressed as a clown is risky.”
- Doug Coupland

People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
- Iris Murdoch

“Music is one of the best ways to enjoy the present. It’s not much fun to look forward to hearing music or to remember what a song sounded like last week, but music right now absorbs you and places you in the present moment.”
- Sonnett Branche

“I am patient with stupidity, but not with those who are proud of it.”
- Edith Sitwell

“People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within.”

- ~Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

convinced the thing that separates us from the animals is high heels
-story people

“The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes “sightseeing.”
Daniel J Boorstin

“It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness and of pain; of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature, and everlasting beauty of monotony.”
- Benjamin Britten

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
- Cicero

“I have wasted years of my life agonizing about the fires I started when I thought that to be strong you must be flame-retardant.”
- Ampersand - Amanda Palmer

“A ballet dancer goes onstage on a given night, in a specific theater, in a specific ballet and executes, in a specific fraction of musical time a movement that is already past just as it appears. And it takes far more than 10,000 hours of practice and repetition to make this movement exquisite, worthy. A dancer’s entire career consists of these moments of non-existence; they are not even fleeting, they are, somehow, never there at all, a shadow in someone else’s mind at best.”
- Toni Bentley

I'm not going to grow up to be a dwarf, am I? she said. Because if I am, I'm going to start hating men right now while they're still my size
- story people

“You looked happy. Happy with a secret.”
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

“A day without laughter is a day wasted.”
- Charlie Chaplin

“You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.”
- Mahatma Gandhi

“If you blur your eyes, the streetlights become hundreds of ghosts going home.”

“Dreaming isn’t hard. Dreaming while you walk, work and wonder, is another matter entirely.”

“The music continues its fiery revolution all around us and there is a girl inside of me that wants to give in to the fanatical beat...”
- The Sky is Everywhere by Jandy Nelson

In the summertime when the weather's high,
you can stretch right up and touch the sky,
when the weather's fine

Mungo Jerry - In The Summertime

“We have learned much, Siddhartha. There still remains much to learn. We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps.”

- Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
- Isaac Asimov

“Bringing up a family should be an adventure, not an anxious discipline in which everybody is constantly graded for performance.”
- Milton R. Sapirstein

“It is not a sign of good health to be well adjusted to a sick society.”
- J. Krishnamurti

“take your mask off when you speak to me”
- dilly

“Fear is a manipulative emotion that can trick us into living a boring life.”
- Donald Miller

“I am imagination. I can see what the eyes cannot see. I can hear what the ears cannot hear. I can feel what the heart cannot feel.”
- Peter Nivio Zarlenga

“Trust that little voice in your head that says “Wouldn’t it be interesting if…”; And then do it.”
- Duane Michals

“Maybe we’re notes, plucked from strings we cannot see. Maybe we’re all echoes of each other. Maybe that sound is all you are.”

“Never love anybody who treats you like you’re ordinary.” - Oscar Wilde

“beauty is power; a smile is its sword.”
- John Ray

"Insecurities are nothing more than a wounded soul walking with a limp. The tragedies of the heart cause damage much like physical tragedies do. When you see someone with a glaring insecurity, remember that at some point, a very deep hurt put it there and as much as you can, love them through it."

And I was a cage
A cage to you...


But I am afraid
Of the truth
Inside of you

I could use a friend to say they love me...

- i was a cage - right away, great captain!

“Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Conformity is too often prized as a virtue.”
- Marty Sklar

I think I'm having a heart attack, she said, but it's dragging on for hours. I told her not to worry. That's how most people who work a full day feel, I said.
-story people