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I just found out last night

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 23:12:38 GMT

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.

RIP Andre.

Love wasn’t put in your heart to stay. Love isn’t love until you give it away.

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 03:26:07 GMT

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

Cute animal of the day:

"Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told, 'I'm with you kid. Let's go.' "

Mon, 07 Sep 2009 22:08:15 GMT

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.

Funny pic of the day:

Tattoo of the day:

Cute animal of the day:

And you thought I was kidding when I said I'd be back!

Sun, 30 Aug 2009 19:41:44 GMT

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

Cool find of the day:

In the middle of a massive upload.

Sun, 19 Jul 2009 23:48:50 GMT

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 :)

<3 <3 <3

Sylvy

BRB.

Sat, 23 May 2009 16:07:05 GMT

Hey loves....

Sorry I haven't been posting in the last few days! My laptop broke and I had to buy myself a new one (I got a Mac this time, so happy!) but it took a while to arrive:

^Being silly.

I'm still getting used to it and also in the middle of changing my summer schedule--I quit my job and I'm in the process of getting a new one but I don't know what my shifts will be like yet so I'm not 100% sure when I'll be back to posting regularly again.
Hopefully soon.

<3,
Sylvy

Drink up baby; stay up all night with the things you could do, you wont but you might. The potential

Fri, 15 May 2009 05:22:35 GMT

So the "break" part of my summer break is almost over; next Monday I start work again and I'll be taking one class as well (Statistics...ugh). I'm not crazy about those plans but I am happy that I can stop dreading them and just work on getting through them now, that class is just six weeks and that'll put me halfway through summer,and the faster time passes, the more steps I take, the closer I am to finally graduating.
Truth be told I'm pretty worried. As it turns out my fairy tale literature professor is being really nice and agreed to write a recommendation letter for me to apply to grad school, which means...I have to apply to grad school. I was planning on it anyways, just wasn't sure if I would do it my senior year of college and now I suppose I have to...my plan of action as of a few days was kind of to move out to LA the summer after graduation without having to worry about how to pay crazy-high tuition for a masters degree and just focus on getting a job to cover my living expenses, which would give me some extra time to work on productions (read: work for free) and then once I was a California resident I could apply and do it if I felt it was necessary. My concern now is whether I'll be able to defer if I do get into the school I'm applying to...I know it's possible but I'm not sure I'll be able to chose that once I'm so elated that I got in in the first place, you know? I'll be too excited and I'll probably rush and accept the admission and wind up with a lot of debt. I don't know. We'll see, I'm going off on tangents here. I find that when I'm a little worried I do my best at joining together icons I feel are relevant to each other so I hope you guys enjoy this one...

Anyone who can touch you can hurt or heal you. Anyone who can reach you can love you or leave you. So be gentle...

Most of our life is a series of images. They pass us by like towns on the highway. But sometimes a moment stuns us as it happens and we know that this instant is more than a fleeting image. We know that this moment, every part of it, will live on forever.
-One Tree Hill

Truth doesn’t change. Truth is one thing. It covers all things which touch the heart--honor and pride and pity and justice and courage and love.
- William Faulkner, "The Bear"

Love doesn't always come dressed in the
package we want. It doesn't arrive on our schedule
and it doesn't follow our guidelines and rules.
It is love. It is intangible, unpredictable, and
certainly uncontrollable. This is what makes it
so wonderful. We need to remember to be
grateful and honored by its presence in our lives.
...Be careful to not let it pass you by just because
it doesn't present itself the way you think it should.
-Kimberly Kirberger

A stumble may prevent a fall.
-English Proverb

And I'm beyond your peripheral vision
so you might want to turn your head
'cause someday you might find you are starving
and eating all of the words that you said.
-Ani DiFranco

And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

Thu, 14 May 2009 01:18:26 GMT

Today Yesterday was fantastic:

-Production meeting/casting for a short in the morning…which turned into getting asked to be producer for three more shorts that some of the directors collaborators are shooting. I’m.getting.four.credits.this.summer. In other words, I’m gonna be crazy-busy but I’m thrilled about it, I'll be getting so much experience!

-TGIFridays California Club sandwich…I swear I hadn’t had avocados for like 3 years.

-Afternoon spent at B&N reading Nylon, a special-edition magazine about secret societies, and relevant sections of Film School Confidential…that kinda says a lot about me,lol. I also bought four of Hemingway’s novels on sale, including A Farewell to Arms (aka my favorite book ever, I’d lost my copy).

-Ice-cream run...I'd never had any with cake frosting in it but it's delicious!!

Now for the post:

Results aside, the ability to have complete faith in another human being is one of the finest qualities a person can possess.
-Haruki Murakami, the wind-up bird chronicle.

Before we met, I was as lost as a person could be,
and yet you saw something in me
that somehow gave me direction again.
-Nights in Rodanthe by Nicholas Sparks

I always used to care so much,
Until I found peace with myself,
Because suddenly, I wasn't concerned,
If they were gossiping or partying,
Or if I was all alone,
Being me is enough.

Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
-Roy Goodman

It’s easy to be miserable. Being happy is tougher — and cooler.
-Thom Yorke

I don't care much for facts, am not much interested in them, you cant stand a fact up, you've got to prop it up, and when you move to one side a little and look at it from that angle, it's not thick enough to cast a shadow in that direction.
-William Faulkner

Stories never really end, even if the books like to pretend they do. Stories always go on. They don't end on the last page, any more than they begin on the first page.
-Cornelia Funke, Inkheart

While you are proclaiming peace with your lips,
be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.
-St Francis of Assisi

Oh yes, the past can hurt,
but the way that I see it
you can either run from it,
or learn from it.
-The Lion King

LOL of the day:

Keep the sweet comments and subs coming, <3
Sylvy

Gracias.

Mon, 11 May 2009 00:32:40 GMT

So, this post isn't like my usual, but I felt the need to write it and share it because I imagine someone else out there needs a reminder too.

I don't think I tell my mom nearly enough but I'm thankful for so many things about her:
1. That she took me out to see Star Trek last night...my mom HATES going to the movies, she usually falls asleep but she put on such an effort to enjoy herself (it was even her idea to go!) and to follow the plot and not grimace at all the showy action sequences that she's totally not interested in. It was sweet.
2. That she's absolutely ferocious-protective of me but at the same time refuses to let me feel sorry for myself when things go wrong...I owe it to her that I know how to be proactive and have common sense.
3. That she goes shopping for herself and comes back with bags of stuff for me (and that I never even have to return them because she knows my taste). She's just always thinking of me and exemplifies selflessness.
4. That she's been so strong all these years, always finding a way out of every situation. My dad left us when I was four and I literally have not seen or heard of him since, but thanks to her I've never stopped having a place to live and food to eat and someone to confide in. She's worked every job imaginable: cemetery property salesperson (no kidding, when I was 7 I could give you detailed pitches of the benefits of different kinds of graves, I'd go along with her on her meetings), waitress, van driver, real estate school director of recruitment, event staff, etcetera but she always had the time to help me on a science project or a book report.
Despite all her flaws and how nagging she can be when she wants me to do something for my own good, she is hands down the most incredible, loyal, hard-working person I know and I'm forever indebted to her for all the things she's taught me.
So I'd just like to dedicate this post to her.

Happy Mother's Day, Mom.

Me, age 2, with my mom and my grandma in Miami.

Me, age 18, with my mom in Orlando.

Iconspiration is officially OPEN for the summer!

Sun, 10 May 2009 03:39:38 GMT

So, as the title of the post says...I'm back! For a good 4 months, and then we'll see :)
This post is just a little taste of what's to come, I only have 3 summer classes (and they're not all at once) so I'll definitely have free time to make lots of improvements. In a few days I'll probably even revamp the layout/playlist.
Life is good right now, I just finished my junior year of college a few days ago (crazy how time flies!) and my grades were posted up today (all A's!), so these months I'll be dedicating to figuring out what I want to do and where I'd like to go once I graduate next May...I have a pretty clear idea of my general direction but I've got plentyyy of specifics to decide (a.k.a: grad school applications!). That said, I'll probably post about this a little bit (or a lot).

Anyways, it's already feeling a little difficult getting back into the Xanga loop after being away for such a long time, but I'll be trying to catch up with all my subbies and friends and hopefully a lot of you are still around/not mad that I may have overlooked a few comments/messages from like, months ago. I <3 you all and it definitely wasn't on purpose!

And now, the post:

Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgotten.
-Neil Gaiman

Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You're never as good as you’d like to be. So there’s always something to hope for.
-Washington Irving

If being crazy means living life as if it matters, then I don’t mind being completely insane.
-Revolutionary Road

All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
- Edward Gibbon

Unclose your mind. You are not a prisoner. You are a bird of flight, searching the skies for dreams.
-Haruki Murakami

Let us be about setting high standards for life, love, creativity,
and wisdom. If our expectations in these areas are low,
we are not likely to experience wellness. Setting high standards
makes every day and every decade worth looking forward to.
-Greg Anderson

Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let the pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe it to be a beautiful place.

If you want to know what a man’s like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.
-Albus Dumbledore

I won't keep circling the ocean forever, hoping I'll spot your island on the horizon, uncolonised and flying an old, tattered flag. You on the shore with the sand between your toes.

You’ve gotta swim
Swim in the dark
There’s no shame in drifting
Feel the tide shifting
And wait for the spark
You’ve gotta swim
Don’t let yourself sink
Just find the horizon
I promise you it’s not as far as you think

-Jack’s Mannequin, "Swim"

Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go so much further than people with vastly superior talent.
-Sophia Loren

Small people only want one thing from you:
Someone else to be as small as they are.
Stay big.

The man who sticks to his plan will become what he used to want to be.
-James Richardson

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