write down all good quotes that have a meaning for me

26. remembered, if outlived,
as freezing persons, recollect the snow -
first – chill – then stupor – then the letting go.
- emily dickinson.

I keep a text file open while I browse the internet so I can quickly copy and paste quotes that I see and like (and eventually add to a notebook). I still have trouble memorizing and writing down things I hear and like when I’m out and about, or while I’m reading.

Just sounds fun.

25. there are a lot of things about me you don’t know anything about, things you wouldn’t understand, things you couldn’t understand, things you shouldn’t understand. – paul reubens ‘pee-wee’s big adventure’.

22. many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. – thomas edison.

23. be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind. – dr. seuss.

24. success is never final. failure is never fatal. it is courage that counts. – winston churchill.

20. you can only be young once. but you can always be immature.

21. don’t waste your youth growing up.

(from I-D mag)

13. i’d rather be hated for who i am, than loved for who i am not. – kurt cobain.

14. wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are. – kurt cobain

15. a lot of things you see as a child remain with you…you spend a lot of your life trying to recapture the experience. – tim burton.

16. all i can do is be me. whoever that is. – bob dylan.

17. whatever people say i am. that’s what i’m not. – arctic monkeys’ album title.

18. joy is not in things; it is in us. – richard wagner.

19. avoid the flourish. do not be afraid to be weak. do not be ashamed to be tired. you look good when you’re tired. you look like you could go on forever. now come into my arms. you are the image of my beauty. – ‘how to speak poetry’, leonard cohen.

8. i thought what i’d do was, i’d pretend i was one of those deaf-mutes. that way i wouldn’t have to have any goddam stupid useless conversations with anybody. – ‘the catcher in the rye’, j.d. salinger.

9. what i have to do, i have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff— i mean if they’re running and they don’t look where they’re going i have to come out from somewhere and catch them. that’s all i’d do all day. i’d just be the catcher in the rye and all. i know it’s crazy, but that’s the only thing i’d really like to be. i know it’s crazy. – ‘the catcher in the rye’, j.d. salinger.

10. i was very strange back then. i could see i had problems. i was always perceived as weird. i would sit in a closet a lot of the time and not come out, or i would sit up on top of my desk, or under my desk, or do weird things like get my wisdom teeth out and bleed all over the hallways. – tim burton.

11. a second is no more than a second. a minute is no more than a minute. a day is no more than a day. they pass. all things and all time will pass. don’t force or fear, don’t control or lose control. don’t fight and don’t stop fighting. embrace and endure. if you embrace then you will endure. – ‘a million little piece’, james frey.

12. when you’re dealing with someone who is that brilliant but is tortured you have to put up with a lot of misanthropic shit. – courtney love

4. i have a very childlike rage, and a very childlike loneliness. – richey edwards.

5. what they like about you they fear about you. they think you’re a somewhat strange person, so they’re always a little bit worried. – tim burton.

6. let them think what they liked, but i didn’t mean to drown myself. i meant to swim till i sank – but that’s not the same thing. – joseph conrad.

7. my car was repeatedly stopped on the way to the studio by armed rebels, but it would have taken more than a revolution to stop me. – fritz lang.

1. fight for what you believe in.

2. never regret anything.

3. act your age not your shoe size.

(from I-D mag)