I'll be home for Christmas, if only in my dreams.

“There must be ghosts all over the world. They must be as countless as the grains of the sands, it seems to me. And we are so miserably afraid of the light, all of us.”
Henrik Ibsen, Ghosts



“For what it’s worth: it’s never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be. There’s no time limit, stop whenever you want. You can change or stay the same, there are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. And I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald



“Your heart and my heart
are very, very old friends.”
Hafiz



“In life to handle yourself, use your head, but to handle others, use your heart.”
Swami Chinmayananda



“He must have looked up at an unfamiliar sky through frightening leaves and shivered as he found what a grotesque thing a rose is and how raw the sunlight was upon the scarcely created grass. A new world, material without being real, where poor ghosts, breathing dreams like air, drifted fortuitously about…like that ashen, fantastic figure gliding towards him through the amorphous trees.”
The Great Gatsby




“I thought I understood it, that I could grasp it, but I didn’t - not really. I knew the smudgeness of it. The pink-slippered, all-containered, semi-precious eagerness of it. I didn’t realize it would sometimes be more than whole, that the wholeness was a rather luxurios idea; because it’s the halves that have you in half. Didn’t know, don’t know, about the in between bits. The gory bits of you, and gory bits of me.”
Like Crazy


“Try to overcome your doubt. Believe you are beautiful. Look at yourself through someone else’s green eyes. Believe someone out there will find you and kiss your skin until you feel it blister with heat. Believe in something bigger than your problems and you will be saved.”
Max Bemis




Happy holidays and a joyous 2012 to you and your loved ones.
xo,
Chelsea