"Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them."

- Jodi Picoult; My Sister's Keeper

"Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness."

— Maya Angelou

"Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?"

— Haruki Murakami

It's not who you are that holds you back, it's who you think you're not. -Author Unknown

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
Henry David Thoreau

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
Theodore Roosevelt

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to continually be afraid you will make one.
Elbert Hubbard

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
Walt Disney

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.
Brian Littrell

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.
Rabindranath Tagore

If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up. J.M. Power

Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
Confucius

The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Albert Einstein

You have brains in your head.
You have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.
You're on your own.
And you know what you know.
You are the guy who'll decide where to go.
Dr. Seuss

There is no telling how many miles you will have to run while chasing a dream.
Author Unknown

Memory

'Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us.' - Oscar Wilde

"I missed you even when I was with you. That's been my problem. I miss what I already have, and I surround myself with things that are missing." - Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Poignant Quotes...

All quotes by Jonathan Safran Foer, an amazing writer who can so easily encapsulate raw human emotions within words.

"I like to see people reunited, I like to see people run to each other, I like the kissing and the crying, I like the impatience, the stories that the mouth can't tell fast enough, the ears that aren't big enough, the eyes that can't take in all of the change, I like the hugging, the bringing together, the end of missing someone."

"What about little microphones? What if everyone swallowed them, and they played the sounds of our hearts through little speakers, which could be in the pouches of our overalls? When you skateboarded down the street at night you could hear everyone's heartbeat, and they could hear yours, sort of like sonar. One weird thing is, I wonder if everyone's hearts would start to beat at the same time, like how women who live together have their menstrual periods at the same time, which I know about, but don't really want to know about. That would be so weird, except that the place in the hospital where babies are born would sound like a crystal chandelier in a houseboat, because the babies wouldn't have had time to match up their heartbeats yet. And at the finish line at the end of the New York City Marathon it would sound like war."

"Humans are the only animal that blushes, laughs, has religion, wages war, and kisses with lips. So in a way, the more you kiss with lips, the more human you are. And the more you wage war."

"I hope that one day you will have the experience of doing something you do not understand for someone you love."

"'Why do beautiful songs make you sad?' 'Because they aren't true.' 'Never?' 'Nothing is beautiful and true.'"

"Sometimes I imagined stitching all of our little touches together. How many hundreds of thousands of fingers brushing against each other does it take to make love? Why does anyone ever make love?"

"The more you love someone, he came to think, the harder it is to tell them. It surprised him that strangers didn't stop each other on the street to say I love you."

"It's so beautiful at this hour. The sun is low, the shadows are long, the air is cold and clean. You won't be awake for another five hours, but I can't help feeling that we're sharing this clear and beautiful morning."

"From space, astronauts can see people making love as a tiny speck of light. Not light, exactly, but a glow that could be confused for light - a coital radiance that takes generations to pour like honey through the darkness to the astronaut's eyes. In about one and a half centuries - after the lovers who made the glow will have long since been laid permanently on their backs - the metropolitan cities will be seen from space. They will glow all year. Smaller cities will also be seen, but with great difficulty. Towns will be virtually impossible to spot. Individual couples invisible."

Today my heart swings.

x.

Let Down

I am trying to write a belonging short story centred about these lyrics....

I feel as though this song perfectly encapsulates the disillusion and disassociation of the individual living in a modern society. Everyone just walks about in their own sorrows, nobody stops to notice others...we are all too contained in ourselves that it is awfully hard to disengage and thus, associate with others.

And there's the uplifting end to the song, 'One day, I am gonna grow wings', signifying the hope that still lingers about even in this cold world we live in. There will inevitably be one day when we can flee from such a life..surely.

Transport, motorways and tram lines
Starting and then stopping, taking off and landing
The emptiest of feelings, disappointed people clinging onto bottles
And when it comes, it's so, so disappointing

Let down and hanging around
Crushed like a bug in the ground
Let down and hanging around

Shell smashed, juices flowing wings twitch, legs are going
Don't get sentimental, it always ends up drivel
One day I'm going to grow wings
A chemical reaction, hysterical and useless hysterical and

Let down and hanging around
Crushed like a bug in the ground
Let down and hanging around let down again

You know, you know where you are with you, know where you are
With floor collapses floating, bouncing back and one day
I am going to grow wings
A chemical reaction, hysterical and useless hysterical and

Let down and hanging around
Crushed like a bug in the ground
Let down and hanging around

One day, I am gonna grow wings

A chemical reaction, hysterical and useless

hysterical and let down and hanging around.

sweet disposition

so stay there
cause i'll be comin over
and while our bloods still young
it's so young
it runs
and we won't stop til it's over
won't stop to surrender

American Beauty

Lester Burnham:

'...but it's hard to stay mad, when there's so much beauty in the world. Sometimes I feel like I'm seeing it all at once, and it's too much, my heart fills up like a balloon that's about to burst... And then I remember to relax, and stop trying to hold on to it, and then it flows through me like rain and I can't feel anything but gratitude for every single moment of my stupid little life...'