“This person, this self, this me, finally, was made somewhere else. Everything had come from somewhere else, and it would all go somewhere else. I was nothing but a pathway for the person known as me.”
—Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (via human-voices)
December 2011
“Sometimes you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.”
—John Green, “The Fault in Our Stars.”
(via potterwhovian)
(via potterwhovian)
“I think it’s very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person.”
—Oscar Wilde. (via myrustyhalo)
“When I am silent, I have thunder hidden inside.”
—Rumi (via spiritd3sire)
“I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.”
—
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë
(via theedgeofnight)
“The clock is ticking as we speak. Time rushes past. Opportunities are lost right and left.”
—Haruki Murakami, 1Q84 (via harukimurakami)
Chin Music For The Unsuspecting Hero
Foster The People
Chin Music For The Unsuspecting Hero - Foster The People
No Cars Go (Arcade Fire) - Maxence Cyrin
maxence cyrin ll no cars go (arcade fire cover)
Thanks for the follow!
Thank you for following back. Your blog is gorgeous.
Bon Iver - Beth/Rest (Solo Piano at World Cafe)
bon iver – beth/rest (acoustic piano version)
“I don’t want a future, I want a present. To me this appears of greater value. You have a future only when you have no present, and when you have a present, you forget to even think about the future.”
—― Robert Walser, The Tanners (via ratak-monodosico)
“Most of the people I have ever met have somebody who they can fall back into their arms. When I fall back, I hit concrete.”
—Morrissey (via glitterp0t)
“Don’t ask for guarantees. And don’t look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were heading for shore.”
—Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury (via mirroir)
“This is the sadness of the sea—
waves like words, all broken—
a sameness of lifting and falling mood.” —William Carlos Williams, The Descent of Winter, from Collected Poems (1921-1931)
waves like words, all broken—
a sameness of lifting and falling mood.” —William Carlos Williams, The Descent of Winter, from Collected Poems (1921-1931)
“The sign of a beautiful person is that he always sees beauty in others.”
—Omar Suleiman (via elige)
“La calma è la virtù dei forti.”
—
Italian proverb
(via unejeunedemoiselle)
“We need a renaissance of wonder. We need to renew, in our hearts and in our souls, the deathless dream, the eternal poetry, the perennial sense that life is miracle and magic.”
—E. Merrill Root (via elige)
“The aim of Love is to love: no more, and no less.”
—Oscar Wilde, De Profundis (via elige)
“Don’t you think it would be wonderful to get rid of everything and everybody and just go some place where you don’t know a soul?”
—Haruki Murakami (via moldavia)
Last Christmas
Florence + The Machine
Florence + the Machine - Last Christmas
Last Christmas I gave you my heart
But the very next day, you gave it away
This year, to save me from tears
I’ll give it to someone special
Helplessness Blues
Fleet Foxes
Fleet Foxes — Helplessness Blues
“Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.”
—C. S. Lewis (via ermarty)
“The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love.”
—Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility (via feedforthefire)
“It bothers me that no one has the patience to deal with someone who is just sad.”
—Emily Haines (via beatboxgoesthump)
“Love is where you find it. I think it is foolish to go looking for it, and I think it can often be poisonous.”
—Kurt Vonnegut (via moldavia)
Hi, how are you?
Hello. I’m quite alright, thank you.
Today I’ve heard from a very special person
that I looked lovely, so it must be a good day.
How are you?
(via weissewiese)
As long as I continue to take responsibility for my own happiness, being alone will never equate to being lonely, and being single will never equate to being vulnerable.
“The sad truth is the truth is sad.”
—Lemony Snicket (via nocternity)
“I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.”
—Carl Jung (via intxci)
“Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world would do this, it would change the earth.”
—William Faulkner (via misswallflower)
