Another quote derived from studying :P

No two people express themselves or understand the world identically, and

everyone changes his or her perspective over time, largely in response to the

people and the expressive materials he or she comes in contact with.

It's amazing what I find when I'm trying to write assignments

The deceiver

places himself like a master over a

slave, the deceived, deciding what the

deceived should know and, as a result,

how he will likely act given his tampered

view of the world. The deceived

is denied the knowledge he needs to

make optimal decisions.

Fear: False Evidence Appearing Real.

Happiness happiness happiness

You could read a thousand books, or say a thousand things...but that isn't going to change who you are unless you put these thoughts and words to action.

What is it with people born in the 1800s :)

"The true paradises are the paradises that we have lost." — Marcel Proust

"You know, I do believe in magic. I was born and raised in a magic time, in a magic town, among magicians. Oh, most everybody else didn’t realize we lived in that web of magic, connected by silver filaments of chance and circumstance. But I knew it all along. When I was twelve years old, the world was my magic lantern, and by its green spirit glow I saw the past, the present and into the future. You probably did too; you just don’t recall it. See, this is my opinion: we all start out knowing magic. We are born with whirlwinds, forest fires, and comets inside us. We are born able to sing to birds and read the clouds and see our destiny in grains of sand. But then we get the magic educated right out of our souls. We get it churched out, spanked out, washed out, and combed out. We get put on the straight and narrow and told to be responsible. Told to act our age. Told to grow up, for God’s sake. And you know why we were told that? Because the people doing the telling were afraid of our wildness and youth, and because the magic we knew made them ashamed and sad of what they’d allowed to wither in themselves.

After you go so far away from it, though, you can’t really get it back. You can have seconds of it. Just seconds of knowing and remembering. When people get weepy at movies, it’s because in that dark theater the golden pool of magic is touched, just briefly. Then they come out into the hard sun of logic and reason again and it dries up, and they’re left feeling a little heartsad and not knowing why. When a song stirs a memory, when motes of dust turning in a shaft of light takes your attention from the world, when you listen to a train passing on a track at night in the distance and wonder where it might be going, you step beyond who you are and where you are. For the briefest of instants, you have stepped into the magic realm.

That’s what I believe.

The truth of life is that every year we get farther away from the essence that is born within us. We get shouldered with burdens, some of them good, some of them not so good. Things happen to us. Loved ones die. People get in wrecks and get crippled. People lose their way, for one reason or another. It’s not hard to do, in this world of crazy mazes. Life itself does its best to take that memory of magic away from us. You don’t know it’s happening until one day you feel you’ve lost something but you’re not sure what it is. It’s like smiling at a pretty girl and she calls you “sir.” It just happens.

These memories of who I was and where I lived are important to me. They make up a large part of who I’m going to be when my journey winds down. I need the memory of magic if I am ever going to conjure magic again. I need to know and remember, and I want to tell you."
- Robert R. McCammon

New favourite

I miss having short dark hair.

From tomorrow I will be starting a diet. A diet from my usual lifestyle which will consist of me making the absolute most of the day before me. No stressing, no worrying, no reminiscing, no thinking about the future, no unessential thoughts, no negative feelings, nothing to weigh me down. The only thing I am allowed to focus on is the present moment.

I'll let you know the aftermath :)

Lovely day :)

I haven't been so emotionally attached to a book in so long. Definitely a one of a kind novel that will get you hooked right from the first page. So so so beautiful.

"It's our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities"

I'm not interested in the norm and I know I'm not the only one.

A new month speaks for new alterations

You know what, I couldn't care less about any of the toxicity. There are things in my life that irritate me, there are people who I really couldn't trust any less but none of that seems to matter when I think about how precious time is. Do I really want to waste it feeling frustrated? These 'issues' aren't even worth a mere second of a contemplation. If people are annoying the shit out of you then don't associate yourself with them/If things aren't working out the way you wanted them to then find another way. Do something, CHANGE something. Don't just sit there feeling sorry for yourself.