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“That's always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because they're pretty. It's like picking your breakfeast cereals based on color instead of taste.”
— John Green, Paper Towns
Tagged: Love, looks, Writing and Expression, John Green, Vanity
“Living with social anxiety feels like being in a field of flowers that you can’t enjoy. You can’t truly see them for what they are. You can’t smell them, pick them, or love them as you wish. You just stand there in the field, with beauty around you and no way to experience it fully.

You just can’t, sometimes.

That’s the best way that I can describe it. That’s my social phobia put into words. The flowers are people. Lots of people. New people. New places. New things. An abundance of fear and sweat emits from my body each time. New hellos. New hugs. New energy. New handshakes. New pictures.”
— ALEXANDRA ELLE, Standing Still in a Field of Flowers: Living with Social Anxiety
“Opportunities are not usually deep, virgin pools that require courage and boldness to dive into, but instead are obscured, dusted over, blocked by various forms of resistance. What is really called for in these circumstances is clarity, deliberateness, and methodological determination.”
— Ryan Holiday, Don’t Follow Your Passion, It’s What’s Holding You Back
“You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you.”
— John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
Tagged: hurt, Love, Loss, Pain
“It’s interesting to think about how we make people who used to be everything into nothing again. How we learn to forget. How we force forgetting. What we put in place of them in the interim. The dynamics afterward always tell you more than what the relationship did – grief is a faster teacher than joy – but what does it mean when you cycle out to being strangers again? You never really stop knowing each other in that way. Maybe there’s no choice but to make them someone different in your mind, not the person who knew your daily anxieties and what you looked like naked and what made you cry and how much you loved them.”
— Brianna Wiest, How The People We Once Loved Become Strangers Again
“The word ‘emotion’ itself comes from the Latin emovere for move away, remove, stir up, agitate. If something vexes your mind — an event from childhood, a slight by a coworker, political discourse on social media — it begs for release. That can happen without the body’s direct assistance. For those able, though, an excellent way to let go is to stop thinking and put yourself into physical motion.”
— Sarah Smarsh, The Danger of Rumination Without Release
“[After] two ducks get into a fight, which never lasts long, they will separate and float off in opposite directions. Then each duck will flap its wings vigorously a few times, thus releasing the surplus energy that built up during the fight. After they flap their wings, they float on peacefully, as if nothing had ever happened.

If the duck had a human mind, it would keep the fight alive by thinking, by story-making. This would probably be the duck’s story: ‘…He thinks he owns this pond. He has no consideration for my private space…’ As far as the body is concerned, the fight is still continuing, and the energy it generates in response to all those thoughts is emotion…”
— Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose (Oprah's Book Club, Selection 61)
“Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience.”
— Jiddu Krishnamurti, via Tumblr
Tagged: Thought, distortion
“A man's love for you means absolutely nothing if it doesn't come with an uncompromising loyalty to you and your relationship; that should be non-negotiable.”
— Mr. Amari Soul, Reflections Of A Man
Tagged: Loyalty, Commitment, Love, Relationships
“If Fox News had written about Peter Thiel being gay and his fund Clarium failing, would anyone be okay with its total destruction? (Even if that destruction was carried out by going after the network on other, unrelated stories that they got wrong, as Thiel did by financing multiple lawsuits against Gawker?) What if the Times wrote about those things? Would you be okay with the continued existence of those publications in the same situation. If so, why?”
— Elizabeth Spiers, Gawker’s Elizabeth Spiers: Against the Death Penalty for Media Companies
Tagged: Gawker, Gawker Media
“Nothing is inevitable in history, media, or culture — but literacy is the only thing that's even close. Bet for better video, bet for better speech, bet for better things we can't imagine — but if you bet against text, you will lose.”
— Tim Carmody, Facebook is wrong, text is deathless
Tagged: Media Formats Don't Die, Media Formats Layer On Each Other, Text, Language, Reading, Writing, The Technology of Thought And Expression
“The experience of the Soviet Union’s working class has shown that the ways and means to free itself from war lie in the breaking out of crisis, the transformation of imperialist war into civil war (Lenin), the merciless struggle under the banner: The principal enemy is to be found in our own country.”
— Michael Richardson, Krzysztof Fijalkowski, Surrealism Against the Current: Tracts and Declarations
Tagged: Soviet Union, The Longing for Peace, History
“Since every discovery changes nature, the destination of an object or a phenomenon constitutes a surrealist fact.”
— Michael Richardson, Krzysztof Fijalkowski, Surrealism Against the Current: Tracts and Declarations
Tagged: Truth as Movement, Discovering Change, Surrealism
“In the words of a Persian sage: Love is a disease no one wants to get rid of. Those who catch it never try to get better, and those who suffer do not wish to be cured. ”
— Paulo Coelho, The Zahir
Tagged: Love, Addiction, Suffering
“There’ll come a night when your bodies will entwine in the darkness, summer rain hammering on the windows in that uncompromising way it does sometimes, and you’ll peel your cheek from their clammy chest and you’ll whisper, quietly, shyly, perhaps, something about ‘home’. How the definition of that word is no longer bricks and mortar, or the kitchen in which you’d lick bowl after bowl of sugary cake mix as a child, but skin.

Bones. Cells. A smile. That smile.

Home. An anchor in the storm. A reference point. An always, for always.

That’s what it feels like, when you get it right, when you give yourself to the person who deserves you. And I think, perhaps,

that it could be the most spectacular
and most terrifying thing
that any human could feel.”
— Kathy Brown, When You Find The One You’re Meant To Be With
Tagged: Love, Beautiful Language, Finding The One, Finding Love, My Favorites, What It Feels Like To Fall In Love, How Love Feels, Feeling
“If someone doesn’t care about losing you: Move on. There are thousands of people that will die and kill to not lose you.”
— Unknown
Tagged: Love, Breakups, Heartbreak, strength, Relationships
“Open that soda pop, watch it fizz and pop
The clock is tickin' and we can't stop (Can't stop, no)
Open that soda pop, bop-a shu-bop shu-bop
The clock is tickin' and we can't stop.”
— Britney Spears, Soda Pop
Tagged: Britney Spears, 90s music
“To begin, how you think you're really going to pretend
Like you wasn't down and you called him again?
Plus when, you give it up so easy you ain't even foolin' him
If you did it then, then you'd probably do it again”
— Lauryn Hill, That Thing
Tagged: Lauryn Hill, 90s songs
“Jump jump
You should know, you should know that ah
Kris Kross is not having anything today
As we stand there totally krossed out
We commence to make you
Jump jump
The Mac Dad will make you jump jump
Daddy Mac will make you jump jump
Kris Kross will make you jump jump”
— Kris Kross, Jump
Tagged: Kris Kross, 90s music
“She'll make you take your clothes off and go dancing in the rain.
She'll make you live her crazy life but she'll take away your pain
like a bullet to your brain. Come On!
Upside, inside out she's livin la vida loca
She'll push and pull you down, livin la vida loca
Her lips are devil red and her skin's the color mocha
She will wear you out livin la vida loca Come On!
Livin la vida loca, Come on!
She's livin la vida loca.”
— Ricky Martin, Livin' la Vida Loca
Tagged: Ricky Martin, 90s songs
“It's the hardest thing I'll ever have to do
To look you in the eye and tell you I don't love you
It's the hardest thing I'll ever have to lie
To show no emotion when you start to cry
I can't let you see what you mean to me
When my hands are tied
And my heart's not free
We're not meant to be
It's the hardest thing I'll ever have to do
To turn around and walk away pretending I don't love you.”
— 98 Degrees, The Hardest Things
Tagged: 98 Degrees, 90s songs
“So no one told you life was gonna be this way
Your job's a joke, you're broke, your love life's D O A
It's like you're always stuck in second gear
When it hasn't been your day, your week
Your month or even your year but
I'll be there for you
(When the rain starts to pour)
I'll be there for you
(Like I've been there before)
I'll be there for you
('Cause you're there for me too)”
— The Rembrandts, I'll Be There For You
Tagged: The Rembrants, 90s songs
“Somebody once told me the world is gonna roll me
I ain't the sharpest tool in the shed
She was looking kind of dumb with her finger and her thumb
In the shape of an "L" on her forehead
Well, the years start coming and they don't stop coming
Fed to the rules and I hit the ground running
Didn't make sense not to live for fun
Your brain gets smart but your head gets dumb.”
— Smash Mouth, All Star
Tagged: Smash Mouth, 90s songs
“Ice ice baby
Ice ice baby
All right stop
Collaborate and listen
Ice is back with my brand new invention
Something grabs a hold of me tightly
Then I flow that a harpoon daily and nightly
Will it ever stop?
Yo, I don't know
Turn off the lights and I'll glow
To the extreme I rock a mic like a vandal
Light up a stage and wax a chump like a candle”
— Vanilla Ice, Ice Ice Baby
Tagged: Vanilla Ice, 90s songs
“If you had my love and I gave you all my trust would you comfort me
And if somehow you knew that your love would be untrue would you lie to me
And call me baby
Now if I give you me, this is how it's got to be
First of all I won't take your cheating on me
Tell me who can I trust if I can't trust in you
And I refuse to let you play me for a fool”
— Jennifer Lopez, If You Had My Love
Tagged: Jennifer Lopez, 90s songs
“I'm so addicted
To the lovin' that you're feeding to me
Can't do without it
This feeling's got me weak in the knees
Body's in withdrawal
Every time you take it away
Can't you hear me callin'
Begging you to come out and play, oh yeah
So baby, come to me
Show me who you are
Sweet to me
Like sugar to my heart, baby
I'm cravin' for you
I'm missin' you like candy”
— Mandy Moore, Candy
Tagged: Mandy Moore, 90s songs
“You are my fire
The one desire
Believe when I say
I want it that way
But we are two worlds apart
Can't reach to your heart
When you say
That I want it that way
Tell me why
Ain't nothin' but a heartache
Tell me why
Ain't nothin' but a mistake
Tell me why
I never wanna hear you say
I want it that way”
— Backstreet Boys, I Want It That Way
Tagged: Backstreet Boys, 90s songs
“You have so many relationships in this life
Only one or two will last
You go through all the pain and strife
Then you turn your back and they're gone so fast
Oh yeah
And they're gone so fast, yeah
Oh
So hold on the ones who really care
In the end they'll be the only ones there
And when you get old and start losing your hair
Can you tell me who will still care
Can you tell me who will still care?
Oh care”
— Hanson, MMMBop
Tagged: Hanson, 90s songs
“It's tearin' up my heart when I'm with you
But when we are apart, I feel it too
And no matter what I do, I feel the pain
With or without you
Baby I don't understand
Just why we can't be lovers
Things are getting out of hand
Trying too much, but baby we can't win”
— 'N Sync, Tearin Up My Heart
Tagged: 'N Sync, 90s songs
“Don't speak
I know just what you're saying
So please stop explaining
Don't tell me cause it hurts
Don't speak
I know what you're thinking
I don't need your reasons
Don't tell me cause it hurts”
— No Doubt, Don't Speak
Tagged: No Doubt, 90s songs

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