the girl: sylvy
age: 19 place: the sunshine state! majors: Public Relations and Film minor: Theatre sign: Pisces nationality: Cuban, French, Spanish & American loves: Friends and family, her pet turtle Leslie Ann, helping others, all kinds of music, being superinvolved in school, big words, prehistoric reptiles, ketchup, having "24" marathons, eating cherry cough drops when not sick, finding meaning in song lyrics and quotes, sliding down stair rails, having deep conversations, independent films, making lists and making plans, making people nervous for the sheer fun of it, singing (even though she's awful at it), driving or walking around aimlessly, having inside jokes, talking about music, taking pictures of everything, mocking all things pretentious, buying things she doesn't need, writing poetry, making people smile, staying in when it rains, incorporating movie quotes and random facts into everyday conversation and making people laugh.
dislikes: math, hypocrisy, waking up early, texting (yes, texting), talking on the phone (I'd rather talk in person or on AIM, I only have a cell to keep in touch with my parents) negativity, arrogance.
her favorites: People who smile! Johnny Depp, Patrick Dempsey, Daniel Bruhl, Gabriel Macht, Mocha Fraps, Simon Pegg, Facebookingggg, Chuck Norris, Terry Tate, Jackie and Debra, Chuck Klosterman, Forever 21, BCBG Max Azria, Old-school rap, Spanish Rock, classical music, accents, history & the humanities, sociology, SOCCER (futbol!), Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ernest Hemingway, French cinema, Audrey Tautou, Disney channel, Zac Efron, German cinema, Jimmy Eat World, Mana, Brand New, Bright Eyes, Rilo Kiley, RHCP, Joshua Radin, Ingrid Michaelson, the Beatles, Jason Mraz, Ben Folds, Beirut, playing Taboo and Apples to Apples, screenwriting, Victorias Secret cosmetics, romantic comedies, musicals and musical theatre, James Marsden, Jim Sturgess, Weezer, Rivers Cuomo, road trips, scarves, hats, vintage band tees, web design, painting, drawing, collaging and collecting, the stumbleupon application on firefox, chatting on AIM, reading blogs, poetry, tanning.
the faves:
-Ashley 'cause she's smart and talented and because we're on the same ship and live in the same garden :P -Raquel 'cause she leaves the best comments all the time and they make my day & because she's a great photographer!
-Shann 'cause she's a dear and she always has something nice or encouraging to say :)
That one of the boys from my Honors College freshman year symposium group died in a car accident today.
We never hung out much but he was always happy, always making other people laugh, and just 21 years old, so it’s really upsetting to me…lately death in general seems to be hitting closer and closer to home for me, and I guess it comes with getting older, but every time it just makes me think more and I’m just praying that it’ll teach me to be a)more aware and b)more careful.
I’m entirely convinced that we complain too much and waste too much time on the most trivial of things. Quit whining, start living, people. Value what you have.
Last night I was really busy but I still felt the need to update Xanga...I finished adding quotes in this morning, so here it is :)
Hope you all have been doing well! I'll get around to replying to comments soon, I'm glad so many of you have stuck around through the years!
Don’t try to be different. Just be good. To be good is different enough. —Arthur Freed
Follow the tugs in your heart. I think that everyone gets these gentle urges and should listen to them. Even if they sound absolutely insane, they may be worth going for. -Victoria Moran
Above all else, guard your heart, for it affects everything you do. - Proverbs 4:23
The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life. -Frank Lloyd Wright
Let us rid ourselves of all things that hinder us and run with courage and endurance the race that is set before us. —Hebrews 12:1
I choose my company by the beating of their hearts, not the swelling of their heads. - Saves The Day
Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire. —Thomas Merton
Nostalgia for what we have lost is more bearable than nostalgia for what we have never had. — Mignon McLaughlin
No storm is so bad that you can’t learn something from it. You can grow in a storm. You can thrive. Rain cleans the air. — I Wrote This For You
Love cures people — both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it. — Karl Menninger
To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never, to forget.
On what slender threads do life and fortune hang... -The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas.
Nothing will tell you where you are. Each moment is a place you've never been. -Mark Strand
If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is compromise. —Robert Fritz
Wheresoever you go - go with all your heart. -Confucius
Happiness is only real when shared. -Into The Wild
Life is music. Play it louder.
Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it. -Ella Williams
Let's run away to a place where the air tastes like rain and the sun shines like Sunday morning. You bring your laugh and I'll bring my sense of humor, and we can waste the days, one week after another.
I wanted to write one perfect song to make you cry in your sleep. Kind of like a soundtrack for your dreams, to let you know I’m watching. Making sure it turns out alright, it’ll be alright. I guess I wanted to make you feel something. I wanted to make you feel everything. -Kevin Devine
Sometimes we need to stop analyzing the past. Stop planning for the future. Stop trying to figure out precisely how we feel. Stop deciding with our minds what we want our hearts to feel. And sometimes we just have to go with whatever happens, happens and whatever doesnt, doesnt.
Remember this -- very little is needed to make a happy life. -Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
I love you, you annoy me as much as possible but I want to spend every little irritating minute with you. I love you. - Scrubs
Maybe the past is like an anchor, holding us down...maybe we all need to let go of who we are and let ourselve transform into who we will become.
The miracle of life itself; why people live and die, why they hurt and get hurt is still a mystery. We want to know the reason, the secret, the answer at the back of the book…because the thought of our being all alone down here is just too much for us to bear. But at the end of the day, the fact that we show up for each other, in spite our differences, no matter what we believe, is reason enough to keep believing.
You deserve the right kind of love, the kind of love that makes you happy, the fantastic love that's in books and movies. Even if you aren't together forever, you'll want to look back and never regret falling in love with him. That's the kind of love we all deserve.
So stay. Stay and watch the stars come out and then the sun as they all fade away. I'll sing every song i know if it'll make you want to stay. And then i'll say that i missed you, and these words, they'll convince you...
I understand feeling as small and as insignificant as humanly possible. And how it can actually ache in places you didn't know you had inside you. And it doesn't matter how many new haircuts you get, or gyms you join, or how many glasses of chardonnay you drink with your girlfriends... you still go to bed every night going over every detail and wonder what you did wrong or how you could have misunderstood. And how in the hell for that brief moment you could think that you were that happy. And sometimes you can even convince yourself that he'll see the light and show up at your door. And after all that, however long all that may be, you'll go somewhere new. And you'll meet people who make you feel worthwhile again. And little pieces of your soul will finally come back. And all that fuzzy stuff, those years of your life that you wasted, that will eventually begin to fade.
I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. -Maya Angelou
If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?
Don't wait for something big to occur. Start where you are, with what you have, and that will always lead you into something greater. + + Mary Manin Morrissey
We are not the same person this year as last; Nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
Hello my loves! Here it is: Iconspirations first post for the Fall. The first week of my senior year has been a little hectic with moving/getting settled and all that...it's crazy to think I have just a year left here if I decide to leave with just one major! I'm just 20 so it seems like it's too soon to go already. As I went through these past three years it felt like it took forever, but looking back it seems like time flew. Either way, I knew I had to make some time for my comeback...I still really want to change the layout/soundtrack but that'll come in time and I hope to post again in the next couple of days. Hope you guys enjoy it!! :)
Love works in miracles every day: such as weakening the strong, and stretching the weak; making fools of the wise, and wise men of fools; favouring the passions, destroying reason, and in a word, turning everything topsy-turvy. -Marguerite De Valois
Plant your own garden And decorate your own soul, Instead of waiting For someone to bring you flowers.
A problem is a chance for you to do your best. -Duke Ellington
A joyful life is an individual creation that cannot be copied from a recipe. -Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
To climb steep hills Requires slow pace at first. -Shakespeare
Find the courage to fear.
Still, there are times I am bewildered by each mile I have traveled, each meal I have eaten, each person I have known, each room in which I have slept. As ordinary as it all appears, there are times when it is beyond my imagination. -Jhumpa Lahiri (Interpreter of Maladies)
Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. - Mother Teresa
Summer classes were 47589574 times harder than I expected even though I just took one at a time (fyi, I suck at math!). But I'm two weeks away from being done and I really do feel like I want--no, NEED--to come back to this site. As much as it seemed to cheer other people up and inspire them, it also did a lot for making *me* happy and now that I've recharged by spending a few months away I really want to return. I can't give an exact date because all we all know that's failed in the past, but it should be relatively soon :)
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