Sunday 29 January 2012

Sunday Smiles ♥

Sunday can be a grim cocktail of a hangover from Saturday evening and the impending gloom of Monday morning, however it doesn't have to be this way! While I am unable to offer a better hangover cure than Berocca and a bacon sandwich, I do hope to bring a small smile to your Sunday, making the thought of Monday morning seem a little more bearable. 



No promise has been given to you for this night- no, I have suggested too long a respite- no promise has been given even for this hour
Taken from The Fault in Our Stars by John Green



I'm in love with you and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things. I am in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout out into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable and that we are all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labour has been returned to dust,and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we'll ever have, and I'm in love with you.
John Green, TFIOS


Yearning: at the core of this desire is the belief that everything can be perfect
David Levithan



None of us were angels
Imogen Heap


And if we turned back time could we learn to live life?
Lucy Rose


To have it all and still want more, 
one things for sure we're all getting older and before you know it we're pushing up the daises
The Maccabees


I do not know which to prefer,
The beauty of inflections,
Or the beauty of innuendos,
The blackbird whistling,
Or just after.
Wallace Stevens


Thank you for reading my blog,
This week's post included a few quotes by John Green, this is mostly because I received my copy of The Fault in Our Stars this week and I fell in love with it! If I could eat it I would! I you are interested in owning your own copy of this gorgeous book this is the link: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Fault-Our-Stars-John-Green/dp/0525478817/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1327844397&sr=8-1

In other news this is Gotye and Kimbra, I heard it on the radio and immediately loved it. Hope you enjoy it too!
have a fantastic week! See you in February! 


xox

Sunday 22 January 2012

Sunday Smiles ♥

Sunday can be a grim cocktail of a hangover from Saturday evening and the impending gloom of Monday morning, however it doesn't have to be this way! While I am unable to offer a better hangover cure than Berocca and a bacon sandwich, I do hope to bring a small smile to your Sunday, making the thought of Monday morning seem a little more bearable. 



Rolling river of truth, Can you spare me a sip, The holy fountain of youth, Has been reduced to a drip 

The Killers



Tomorrow I’ll be quicker, I’ll stare into the strobe light, flickering afloat I’ll stay, I’m quite alright hiding today.
Tomorrow i’ll be faster, i’ll catch what I’ve been chasing after and have time to play, I’m quite alright hiding today
Alex Turner


There’s only a few things in the world that turn me into a giant squid of anger, and one of them begins, ‘My boyfriend thinks I’m too smart for him
John Green


Be bold, be bold and everywhere be bold
Herbert Spencer 


Another head aches, another heart breaks, I'm so much older than I can take
The Killers


Where's your passion? Where's your fire tonight?
Twin Atlantic


You will never know just how beautiful you are to me
Ed Sheeran


Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart
Wordsworth


Thank you very much for reading my blog! I hope you've had a good week, we had the talk about flats for September this week in halls and it has caused some tension. One group of girls came to the table having already decided that they were living together which left the three of us remaining feeling rather excluded. 

They don't feel that they have acted tactlessly and personally I find that frustrating but I also know that within my own personality I have the bad habit of sulking and nursing perceived slights to my ego rather than letting go and forgiving. So things are a bit strained here but I don't want our friendship to disintegrate so I am going to have to make a concerted effort this week to forgive and move on. 

This is a gorgeous song by the beautiful and exquisitely talented Niki and the Dove, enjoy!


xox 

Sunday 15 January 2012

Sunday Smiles ♥

Sunday can be a grim cocktail of a hangover from Saturday evening and the impending gloom of Monday morning, however it doesn't have to be this way! While I am unable to offer a better hangover cure than Berocca and a bacon sandwich, I do hope to bring a small smile to your Sunday, making the thought of Monday morning seem a little more bearable.




Imagining the future is a form of nostalgia
John Green





If the stars came out only once in a thousand years the whole world would stand in silence before such a sight.



If you forgave me I would sleep at night
Tribes




Kites rise against, not with, the wind
Lewis Mumford




Can you catch me when I drop? I know there'll never be no Superman
Big Pink




The  size and age of the cosmos are beyond ordinary human understanding, lost somewhere between immensity and eternity. Is our tiny planetary home... I believe that our future depends on how well we know this Cosmos in which we float. Like a mote of dust in the morning sky
Carl Sagan




Thank you very much for reading my blog. I love the Carl Sagan quote; at school I found physics irrelevant and dull but thanks to the likes of Brian Cox and Hank Green my interest in what lies beyond this tiny blue marble on which we live has been re-ignited. 


And when the world heads into a fiery destruction if I am able to witness it, this song with it's beautiful cinematic majesty might be what I would want to listen to...







http://weheartit.com/entry21099656/

Sunday 8 January 2012

Sunday Smiles ♥

I hope you had a fantastic festive season, and that you sent 2011 off in style! But as one year drew to a close another brand new year begins. A year of endless possibility, buzzing with potential, 356 days where anything could happen...


Sunday can be a grim cocktail of a hangover from Saturday evening and the impending gloom of Monday morning, however it doesn't have to be this way! While I am unable to offer a better hangover cure than Berocca and a bacon sandwich, I do hope to bring a small smile to your Sunday, making the thought of Monday morning seem a little more bearable.


Forever is composed of nows
Emily Dickinson



Into each life some rain must fall
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers
Voltaire


I felt infinite
Stephen Chbosky, the perks of being a Wallflower


The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled
Plutarch







All life is an experiment
Ralph Waldo Emmerson


We accept the love we think we deserve
The perks of being a wallflower


The poet doesn't invent. He listens
Jean Cocteau


I'm not sure I know how to deal with the wreckage just yet
Ellen and the Escapades


Thank you very much for reading my blog,
I hope I managed to bring a small smile into your Sunday and that 2012 brings you all you can wish for, and more!
I hope you enjoy this beaut of a song from the amazing Ellen and the Escapades.




xox