July 2012
“I want to tear myself from this place, from this reality, rise up like a cloud and float away, melt into this humid summer night and dissolve somewhere far, over the hills.”
—Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner (via bookmania)
June 2012
“You are not defeated when you lose. You are defeated when you quit.”
—Paulo Coelho (via kari-shma)
“Whatever you believe in, you should believe it firmly and visualize it. And it’s good to be aggressive about what you want.”
—Daul Kim (via greaterthanexpected)
Tag! You’re it! The rules are to state 5 random facts about yourself. Then, go to ten blogs and tell them that they are it! :)
1. I love the weird combination of milk and oven-fried potato chips.
2. I speak Russian.
3. I love to read history books.
4. I’m a news junkie, I often check the news 8 times a day.
5. My favorite band is Keane.
“She loved with so much passion as she loved with ignorance. She did not know whether it were good or evil, beneficent or dangerous, necessary or accidental, eternal or transitory, permitted or prohibited: she loved.”
—Victor Hugo, Les Miserables (via larmoyante)
“Be a dreamer. Have a sense of greatness. It has been said that if you can dream it, you can do it. And I believe that. Before your dream can become a reality, you have to see it in your own mind; see its fulfillment, whatever it may be.”
—Mary Kay Ash (via learning-peace)