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GOODBYE TO ALL THAT by Joan Didion ( Read more... )

"Were you being bitten in your dream? If so, you may be feeling badgered by a problem, addiction or person, or there may be someone in your life who doesn't deserve your trust. It may be time to confront the problem straight on. Perhaps you've been procrastinating on a task or ending a bad relationship ( Read more... )

"Every song has a CODA, a final movement. Whether it fades out or crashes away. Every song ends. Is that any reason not to enjoy the music? The truth is, there is nothing to be afraid of. It's just life."
-aL*

"Most of our lives are a series of images, they pass us by like towns on a highway. But sometimes a moment stuns us as it happens and we know that this instant is more than a fleeting image. We know that this moment, every part of it, will live on forever."
-aL*

"Someone once told me, Every song has an ending Jake, but is that any reason not to enjoy the music?"
-aL*

"Because it´s only when you´re tested that you truly discover who you are. And it´s only when you´re tested that you discover who you can be. The person that you want to be does exist, somewhere in the other side of hard work and faith, and belief and beyond the heartache and fear of what life has."
-aL*

"Sometimes i wonder if anything's absolute anymore. Is There Still right and wrong? Good and bad? Truth and lies? Or is everything negotiable,left to interpretation, grey. Sometimes we're forced to bend the truth, transform it, cause we're faced with things that are not of our own making. And sometimes things simply catch up to us."
-aL*

"The fantasy is simple. Pleasure is good. And twice as much pleasure is better. That pain is bad. And no pain is better. But the reality is different. The reality is that pain is there to tell us something. And there is only so much pleasure we can take without getting a stomachache. And maybe that's okay. Maybe some fantasies are only supposed to ( Read more... )