17 Thursday May 2012
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bittersweet, couple, grief, inspiration, loss, love, photogrpahy, quote, romance, tragedy, writing
Sometimes I touch the things you used to touch, looking for echoes of your fingers.
– I Wrote This For You
This one is for all you romantics (at least I first thought of the romantic implication of the quote)! I think it’s beautifully bittersweet. Enjoy!
A look in the mirror by ~lifeAnightmare
28 Saturday Apr 2012
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“Truth is like a language with no native speakers left.”
– Lyrics from Kyteman, ‘Truth Or Dare’
My partner showed me the song ‘Truth or Dare’ and I loved this quote. It speaks for itself, and does so loudly and powerfully.
– Ermisenda Alvarez
20 Friday Apr 2012
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box, darkness, gift, inspiration, photography, quote, writing
Someone I loved once gave me
a box full of darkness.
it took me years to understand
that this, too, was a gift.
—Mary Oliver
by ~Wafflesl
I find this quote so beautiful. There are many ways to interpret it. The first thing it made me think about was how there is so much to learn, experience and explore in both the good and bad, light and dark. It also reminds me of a conversation I had with an old friend… she was a great drawer and I wanted to be as good as she was. I remember she told me that when you are adding shading to your drawing to keep in mind that – the stronger the light shines, the harsher the shadows.
What does it make you think of?
– Ermisenda Alvarez
14 Saturday Apr 2012
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No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.
-Confucius
Image source: Rose City Reader
The quote might be taken to mean reading non-fiction, but I don’t think it has to. I’ve learned plenty from fiction including vocabulary and higher levels of sentence structure. Part of why we wrote Blind Sight was to highlight that only getting one side of a story could incorrectly skew your understanding of events. This quote makes me feel guilty I’m not reading as much as I would like (last time I looked I was 4% behind my Goodreads reading challenge for 2012).
-Eliabeth Hawthorne
What about you? Does this inspire you to read more or are you surrendering to self-chosen ignorance?
12 Monday Mar 2012
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creativity, emotion, fiction, life, photography, poetry, quote, self doubt, writing
And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt. ~Sylvia Plath
An amazing photograph, Self Doubt, by Morgana Creely.
We all get feelings of self-doubt. This is a great quote to motivate us to keep writing. 🙂 How do you combat your self-doubts?
– Ermisenda Alvarez
18 Saturday Feb 2012
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26 Thursday Jan 2012
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authors, book, inspiration, life, multiple lives, quote, reading, stories, urban fantasy, writing
Anyone who says they have only one life to live must not know how to read a book.
An awesome quote. Enjoy! Are you someone who has lived multiple lives? As a book-a-holic and writer, I sure have! 😀 I’ve recently lived as a 16 year old Shadowhunter, and multiple survivors from World War Z (2 new book reviews should be published soon :)), and, of course, a Spanish immigrant discovering his new life in Edaion with his blind, gifted sister. 😉
What lives have you recently lived?
– Ermisenda Alvarez
09 Friday Dec 2011
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change, life, mortality, permanence, photography, quote, steve jobs, ted
“Nothing is permanent in this wicked world, not even our troubles” – Charlie Chaplin
What I love about this quote is that it can be taken two ways. We can be upset about how nothing in our life, right now, will stay exactly the same as it is (those things that are positive). On the other hand we can be grateful that those things that are negative, our troubles, will soon change and hopefully for the better.
Holding onto that notion is important: we are ephermeral beings, we are mortal and we will one day be no more, just like those troubles we once had. This pushes us. It pushes me. We must live each day knowing that nothing is permanent, especially not our lives. Watch this great inspirational speech given by Steven Jobs, he explores this notion as well. Do you agree that nothing is permanent, whether it’s for better or for worse?
How To Live Before You Die – Steve Jobs (TEDTalk)
– Ermisenda Alvarez
12 Saturday Nov 2011
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If you suck on a tit the movie gets an R rating. If you hack the tit off with an axe it will be PG. ~Jack Nicholson
When I first encountered this quote I thought it was hilarious. I had a good chuckle. *Insert good chuckle*. But then I pondered it on a little longer, and a little longer. Why is that quote surprisingly funny (and slightly exaggerated or is it?) and true?
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03 Monday Oct 2011
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Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you.
– Hafiz of Persia
Reblogged on Ermisenda's tumblr
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