May 2012
16 posts
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Life is like music for its own sake. We are living in an eternal now, and when...
– Alan Watts (via philosophicalpoetry)
Most importantly, if you can at all avoid it, don’t be normal. Strive, burn and...
– I Wrote This For You: The Defiance Of The Different (via kari-shma)
I thought, it’s a shame that we have to live, but it’s a tragedy that we get to...
– ― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (via lepier)
I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.
– John Steinbeck (via ialwayslovedyoubestsid)
We mistake sex for romance. Guys are taught that pushing a girl up against a...
– John C. Moffi (via brokenpromisesanddbrokenhearts)
The trouble is that you think you have time.
– Buddha (via imfeelingdirectionlessyes)
Moving on isn't easy, but it isn't impossible.
But still, I find the need to remind myself of the temporariness of a day, to...
– Gayle Forman, Where She Went (via creatingaquietmind)
You cannot save people. You can only love them.
– Anaïs Nin (via marchist)
I think that one of these days you’re going to have to find out where you want...
– J.D. Salinger (via outcamethesun)
Then I grew up, and the beauty of succulent illusions fell away from me. The...
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and the Damned (via thenameisflower)
I will love you as a thief loves a gallery and as a crow loves a murder, as a...
– Lemony Snicket, The Beatrice Letters (via salveo)
She was extending a hand that I didn’t know how to take, so I broke its fingers...
– Jonathan Safran Foer (via woodlace)
People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a...
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via letmebeyourbadinfluence)
If anything or anyone distresses you, think how you’ll feel a week - a month - a...
– Swami Kriyananda
(via creatingaquietmind)
April 2012
22 posts
People fall so in love with their pain, they can’t leave it behind. The same as...
– Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted (via napsie)
Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.
– Thich Nhat Hanh (via considerthishippie)
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So if you – the oppressed – hurt someone’s feelings, you’re just like the...
– » The Revolution Will Not Be Polite: The Issue of Nice versus Good Social Justice League (via waschbar)
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False notions of love teach us that it is the place where we will feel no pain,...
– bell hooks, All About Love (via antiboy)
(via fromonesurvivortoanother)
Be happy for no reason, like a child. If you are happy for a reason, you’re in...
– Deepak Chopra (via pinkmoons)
Find what you love and let it kill you.
– Charles Bukowski (via thefagartist)
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If you’re going to hold someone down you’re going to have to hold on by the...
– Toni Morrison
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This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the...
– William Shakespeare, Hamlet (via quotes-shape-us)
You see things; and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I...
– George Bernard Shaw (via 333sim333)
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There is divine beauty in learning… To learn means to accept the postulate that...
– Elie Wiesel (via creatingaquietmind)
Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you...
– William Saroyan (via johnjohnjohnjohnjohn)
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I’ve begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a...
– Chaim Potok (via tissah)
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Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their...
– Friedrich Nietzsche (via kingsrow)
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The reality is that this is the way most marriages die. Not with epic rounds of...
– Dr. John Lee, Awake s1e5 (via heartstringss)
March 2012
43 posts
You’re going to discover that conversations are best at 4 am. The heavier the...
– Jeff Stuckel
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Don’t let your happiness depend on something you may lose.
– C.S Lewis (St. Augustine)
I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is...
– W. Clement Stone (via kari-shma)
A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is...
– Kurt Vonnegut (via bluebusybee)
God, how I ricochet between certainties and doubts.
– Sylvia Plath (via loveyourchaos)
Only hang around people that are positive and make you feel good. Anybody who...
– Amy Poehler (via funkyfest)
Great advice.
(via becauseiamawoman)
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i had no religion
or any real authority.
raised myself
to be a person
still...
– 206 (via kvonnegut)
None of us has the power to make someone else love us. But we all have the power...
– Rabbi Harold Kushner (via elige)
Being tender and open is beautiful. As a woman, I feel continually shhh’ed. Too...
– Zooey Deschanel (via pandacake)
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the...
– Benjamin Disraeli (via myquotelibrary)
must remind self daily…
(via louque)