Saturday, April 16, 2011
Date a girl who reads.
"Date a girl who reads. Date a girl who spends her money on books instead of clothes. She has problems with closet space because she has too many books. Date a girl who has a list of books she wants to read, who has had a library card since she was twelve.
Find a girl who reads. You’ll know that she does because she will always have an unread book in her bag.She’s the one lovingly looking over the shelves in the bookstore, the one who quietly cries out when she finds the book she wants. You see the weird chick sniffing the pages of an old book in a second hand book shop? That’s the reader. They can never resist smelling the pages, especially when they are yellow.
She’s the girl reading while waiting in that coffee shop down the street. If you take a peek at her mug, the non-dairy creamer is floating on top because she’s kind of engrossed already. Lost in a world of the author’s making. Sit down. She might give you a glare, as most girls who read do not like to be interrupted. Ask her if she likes the book.
Buy her another cup of coffee.
Let her know what you really think of Murakami. See if she got through the first chapter of Fellowship. Understand that if she says she understood James Joyce’s Ulysses she’s just saying that to sound intelligent. Ask her if she loves Alice or she would like to be Alice.
It’s easy to date a girl who reads. Give her books for her birthday, for Christmas and for anniversaries. Give her the gift of words, in poetry, in song. Give her Neruda, Pound, Sexton, Cummings. Let her know that you understand that words are love. Understand that she knows the difference between books and reality but by god, she’s going to try to make her life a little like her favorite book. It will never be your fault if she does.
She has to give it a shot somehow.
Lie to her. If she understands syntax, she will understand your need to lie. Behind words are other things: motivation, value, nuance, dialogue. It will not be the end of the world.
Fail her. Because a girl who reads knows that failure always leads up to the climax. Because girls who understand that all things will come to end. That you can always write a sequel. That you can begin again and again and still be the hero. That life is meant to have a villain or two.
Why be frightened of everything that you are not? Girls who read understand that people, like characters, develop. Except in the Twilightseries.
If you find a girl who reads, keep her close. When you find her up at 2 AM clutching a book to her chest and weeping, make her a cup of tea and hold her. You may lose her for a couple of hours but she will always come back to you. She’ll talk as if the characters in the book are real, because for a while, they always are.
You will propose on a hot air balloon. Or during a rock concert. Or very casually next time she’s sick. Over Skype.
You will smile so hard you will wonder why your heart hasn’t burst and bled out all over your chest yet. You will write the story of your lives, have kids with strange names and even stranger tastes. She will introduce your children to the Cat in the Hat and Aslan, maybe in the same day. You will walk the winters of your old age together and she will recite Keats under her breath while you shake the snow off your boots.
Date a girl who reads because you deserve it. You deserve a girl who can give you the most colorful life imaginable. If you can only give her monotony, and stale hours and half-baked proposals, then you’re better off alone. If you want the world and the worlds beyond it, date a girl who reads.
Or better yet, date a girl who writes."
[found on tumblr]
Find a girl who reads. You’ll know that she does because she will always have an unread book in her bag.She’s the one lovingly looking over the shelves in the bookstore, the one who quietly cries out when she finds the book she wants. You see the weird chick sniffing the pages of an old book in a second hand book shop? That’s the reader. They can never resist smelling the pages, especially when they are yellow.
She’s the girl reading while waiting in that coffee shop down the street. If you take a peek at her mug, the non-dairy creamer is floating on top because she’s kind of engrossed already. Lost in a world of the author’s making. Sit down. She might give you a glare, as most girls who read do not like to be interrupted. Ask her if she likes the book.
Buy her another cup of coffee.
Let her know what you really think of Murakami. See if she got through the first chapter of Fellowship. Understand that if she says she understood James Joyce’s Ulysses she’s just saying that to sound intelligent. Ask her if she loves Alice or she would like to be Alice.
It’s easy to date a girl who reads. Give her books for her birthday, for Christmas and for anniversaries. Give her the gift of words, in poetry, in song. Give her Neruda, Pound, Sexton, Cummings. Let her know that you understand that words are love. Understand that she knows the difference between books and reality but by god, she’s going to try to make her life a little like her favorite book. It will never be your fault if she does.
She has to give it a shot somehow.
Lie to her. If she understands syntax, she will understand your need to lie. Behind words are other things: motivation, value, nuance, dialogue. It will not be the end of the world.
Fail her. Because a girl who reads knows that failure always leads up to the climax. Because girls who understand that all things will come to end. That you can always write a sequel. That you can begin again and again and still be the hero. That life is meant to have a villain or two.
Why be frightened of everything that you are not? Girls who read understand that people, like characters, develop. Except in the Twilightseries.
If you find a girl who reads, keep her close. When you find her up at 2 AM clutching a book to her chest and weeping, make her a cup of tea and hold her. You may lose her for a couple of hours but she will always come back to you. She’ll talk as if the characters in the book are real, because for a while, they always are.
You will propose on a hot air balloon. Or during a rock concert. Or very casually next time she’s sick. Over Skype.
You will smile so hard you will wonder why your heart hasn’t burst and bled out all over your chest yet. You will write the story of your lives, have kids with strange names and even stranger tastes. She will introduce your children to the Cat in the Hat and Aslan, maybe in the same day. You will walk the winters of your old age together and she will recite Keats under her breath while you shake the snow off your boots.
Date a girl who reads because you deserve it. You deserve a girl who can give you the most colorful life imaginable. If you can only give her monotony, and stale hours and half-baked proposals, then you’re better off alone. If you want the world and the worlds beyond it, date a girl who reads.
Or better yet, date a girl who writes."
[found on tumblr]
Thursday, April 7, 2011
The Paradoxical Commandments - Kent M. Keith
People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered.
Love them anyway.
Love them anyway.
If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.
Do good anyway.
Do good anyway.
If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies.
Succeed anyway.
Succeed anyway.
The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.
Do good anyway.
Do good anyway.
Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.
Be honest and frank anyway.
Be honest and frank anyway.
The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds.
Think big anyway.
Think big anyway.
People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs.
Fight for a few underdogs anyway.
Fight for a few underdogs anyway.
What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.
Build anyway.
Build anyway.
People really need help but may attack you if you do help them.
Help people anyway.
Help people anyway.
Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth.
Give the world the best you have anyway.
Give the world the best you have anyway.
Amigo- Roberto Carlos
Tú eres mi hermano del alma realmente un amigo.
Que en todo camino y jornada está siempre conmigo.
Aunque eres un hombre aún tienes alma de niño.
Aquel que me dá su amistad, su respeto y cariño.
Recuerdo que juntos pasamos muy duros momentos.
Y tú no cambiaste por fuertes que fueran los vientos.
Es tu corazón una casa de puertas abiertas.
Tú eres realmente el más cierto en horas inciertas.
En ciertos momentos difíciles que hay en la vida.
Buscamos a quien nos ayude a encontrar la salida.
Y aquella palabra de fuerza y de fé que me has dado.
Me da la certeza que siempre estuviste a mi lado.
Tú eres mi amigo del alma en toda jornada.
Sonrisa y abrazo festivo a cada llegada.
Me dices verdades tan grandes con frases abiertas.
Tú eres realmente el más cierto de horas inciertas.
No preciso ni decir, todo eso que te digo.
Pero es bueno así sentir que eres tú mi gran amigo.
No preciso ni decir, todo eso que te digo.
Pero es bueno así sentir que yo tengo un gran amigo.
No preciso ni decir, todo eso que te digo.
Pero es bueno así sentir que eres tú mi gran amigo.
No preciso ni decir, todo eso que te digo.
Pero es bueno así sentir que yo tengo un gran amigo.
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
Il y a -Vanessa Paradis
Il y a là la peinture
Des oiseaux, l’envergure
Qui luttent contre le vent
Il y a là les bordures
Les distances, ton allure
Quand tu marches juste devant
Il y a là les fissures
Fermées les serrures
Comme envolés les cerfs-volants
Il y a là la littérature
Le manque d’élan
L’inertie, le mouvement
Parfois on regarde les choses
Telles qu’elles sont
En se demandant pourquoi
Parfois, on les regarde
Telles qu’elles pourraient être
En se disant pourquoi pas
Il y a lalala
Si l’on prenait le temps
Si l’on prenait le temps
Il y a là la littérature
Le manque d’élan
L’inertie, le mouvement
Parfois on regarde les choses
Telles qu’elles sont
En se demandant pourquoi
Parfois, on les regarde
Telles qu’elles pourraient être
En se disant pourquoi pas
Il y a là les mystères,
Le silence sous la mer
Qui luttent contre l’temps
Il y là les bordures
Les distances, ton allure
Quand tu marches juste devant
Il y a là les murmures
Un soupir, l’aventure
Comme emmêlés les cerfs-volants
Il y a là la littérature
Le manque d’élan
L’inertie le mouvement
Parfois on regarde les choses
Telles qu’elles sont
En se demandant pourquoi
Parfois, on les regarde
Telles qu’elles pourraient être
En se disant pourquoi pas
Parfois on regarde les choses
Telles qu’elles sont
En se demandant pourquoi
Parfois, on les regarde
Telles qu’elles pourraient être
En se disant pourquoi pas
Un petit bonhomme
Un petit bonhomme au bout du chemin
Qui mangeait du pomme et a vu Lapin
Lapin, Lapin donnez, donnez-moi la main
Mangeons du pommes et soyons copains.
Time Tested Beauty Tips by Sam Levenson
For attractive lips,
speak words of kindness.
speak words of kindness.
For lovely eyes,
seek out the good in people.
seek out the good in people.
For a slim figure,
share your food with the hungry.
share your food with the hungry.
For beautiful hair,
let a child run his fingers through it once a day.
let a child run his fingers through it once a day.
For poise,
walk with the knowledge you’ll never walk alone…
walk with the knowledge you’ll never walk alone…
People, even more than things,
have to be restored, renewed, revived,
reclaimed and redeemed and redeemed …
have to be restored, renewed, revived,
reclaimed and redeemed and redeemed …
Never throw out anybody. Remember, if you ever need a
helping hand, you’ll find one at the end of your arm.
helping hand, you’ll find one at the end of your arm.
As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands.
One for helping yourself, the other for helping others”.
One for helping yourself, the other for helping others”.
In The Mood For l'Amour-Claire Denamur
In The Mood for l'Amour
You inspire
All the good
All the great
Puts me in the mood for love {x2}
Tu m’inspires
Tout le bon
Le meilleur
Meilleur que des bonbons
L’amour
Tu m’inspires tant d’amour
Je t’enlève tes habits
Comme le papier joli
Autour
Des caramels
Et le sucre de ta peau
C’est tout ce qu’il me faut
Pour être
In the mood for l’amour
{au Refrain}
Toi, tu es ma friandise
Mon adorée bêtise
L’objet
De ma faiblesse
Et si seulement je pouvais
T’infuser comme un thé
Toujours
In the mood for l’amour
{au Refrain}
Quoi que la vie nous réserve
D’un baiser sur mes lèvres
Tu me fais
Tout oublier
Pour le meilleur ou le pire
Que l’on s’aime ou qu’on se déchire
J’aurai toujours le souvenir de toi
Pour te chérir
Tu m’inspires
Tout le bon
Le meilleur
Meilleur que des bonbons
L’amour
Tu m’inspires tant d’amour
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