What Are You Doing New Years Eve? by Zooey Deschanel and Joseph Gordon-L...

2011 has been without a doubt one of the most challenging years of my life. There were so many times when I thought I didn't have the strength to keep going...it seemed as though I just couldn't catch a break. I was emotionally and physically DRAINED. As soon as one aspect of my life would begin to improve, five other things would fall apart. I realize that December 31st is just another day and as we enter into 2012 we are simply beginning a new calendar year, but closing this chapter/year of my life carries great significance to me. I will bundle up all of the lessons that I have learned and keep them close to my heart. I will FINALLY give myself credit for surviving the many lows that I have lived through, and know that I have the strength to tackle whatever this world wants to throw at me. I could not be more ready for 2012. It's going to be a great year. I can feel it in my bones. 

Nat King Cole - Silent Night (Original Stereo)

the feeling rose

Lou Reed - Perfect Day

Staring at my feet, the world is on my shoulders
My life just skipped a beat back to the start, it’s over
We are but a speck against the night sky
I got the feeling that I’m not alive
And I see you and I’m hypnotized

Nice to meet you, superficial is my name
Protect my innocence, I need someone to blame
We are but floating on a sea of our desire
I got the feeling that I’m not alone
So many voices in the great unknown

I got things I should say
I’m left alone, with these thoughts every day
I got things I should say

-The Great Unknown

“…I’ve come to believe that there exists in the universe something I call The Physics of The Quest – a force of nature governed by laws as real as the laws gravity or momentum. And the rule of Quest Physics maybe goes like this: If you are brave enough to leave behind everything familiar and comforting (which can be anything from your house to your bitter old resentments) and set out on a truth-seeking journey (either externally or internally), and if you are truly willing to regard everything that happens to you on that journey as a clue, and if you accept everyone you meet along the way as a teacher, and if you are prepared – most of all – to face (and forgive) some very difficult realities about yourself….then truth will not be withheld from you. Or so I’ve come to believe.”

- Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat Pray Love

"There are songs to be sung,
and pages to be filled with memories.
There are roads to be traveled in places I have never seen.
There are postcards to send,
and so much beauty just to take in.
There are dreams to be chased,
and friends to be held more dearly.
There is love to be seen more clearly.
There are fears to be faced,
and tremblings to understand.
There are new days to brave,
and all this foolish pride to lay down in your hands."

The Gloria Record - 'Ode To New Grass'

A woman is like a tea bag – you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water. 

– Eleanor Roosevelt

 

 

Fortune favors the brave.

 

 

Future Islands - Swept Inside

she says nothing seems the same
and i can't change a thing
her body's like a wave
breaking to the sea
she says everything seems strange
locked behind the years
but life is ours to find
in the days at night