May 2012
“It scares me how hard it is to remember life before you. I can’t even make the...”
– David Levithan (via photographic-energy)
“People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via automatiques)
“Never regret thy fall,
O Icarus of the fearless flight
For the greatest...”
– Oscar Wilde
“Every person has the power to make others happy. Some do it simply by entering a...”
– William Ward (via selfinspiration)
3 tags
“but I say whatever
one loves, is”
– Sappho, Poems and Fragments, trans. Stanley Lombardo (via proustitute)
“All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.”
– Andre Breton (via thelostdeer)
“And so I wait. I wait for time to heal the pain and raise me to my feet once...”
– Jack Canfield, Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul II (via larmoyante)
6 tags
“I’m an observer. I read about life. I research life. I find a corner in a room...”
– Christine Feehan, The Twilight Before Christmas (via flentes)
“We have become a sloppy bunch of people. We say things we don’t mean. We make...”
– Greg Behrendt (via e-atsleeprepeat)
“Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.”
– Nora Ephron (via emauxetcamees)
“Some people are born to make great art and others are born to appreciate it....”
– Ann Patchett, Bel Canto (via selfinspiration)
“There are essentially two things that will make you wise — the books you read...”
– Jack Canfield (via revesdecine)
2 tags
“The hardest thing about being an outcast isn’t the love you don’t receive. It’s...”
– Jodee Blanco, Please Stop Laughing at Me (via midgebot)
1 tag
“Maybe, in the final analysis, they saw me as something I wasn’t and I tried to...”
– Ava Gardner (via selfinspiration)
“We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.”
– Max De Pree (via tylerknott)
“A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a...”
– Charles Baudelaire (via abagofbooks)
“If you’ve been up all night and cried till you have no more tears left in you -...”
– C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (via selfinspiration)
To love one person Forges a new language, Those who’ve been there, Know.
—A. S. Kline, from “All The Tongues”
“I will not be “famous,” “great.” I will go on adventuring, changing, opening my...”
– Virginia Woolf, A Writer’s Diary (via hip-)
“I have a million things to talk to you about. All I want in this world is you. I...”
– Haruki Murakami (via ontelbaar)
“That’s what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.”
– Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things (via abagofbooks)
“Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.”
– Victor Hugo (via beautyisanillusion)
“When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come...”
– W. Somerset Maugham (via selfinspiration)
“They were not holding hands, but their shadows were.”
– Beloved, Toni Morrison (via verdue)
1 tag
“I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.”
– Haruki Murakami, 1Q84 (via moonietonks)
“There is no perfection, only life.”
– Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being (via reluis)
“Her emotional world was simple: If you love with all your might and take care of...”
– Sean Ferrer writing about Audrey Hepburn (via wowloverly)
“Slowly, like a film fade-out, the real world evaporates. I’m alone, inside...”
– Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore.
anchorage
dictionaryofobscuresorrows:
n. the desire to hold on to time as it passes, like trying to keep your grip on a rock in the middle of a river, feeling the weight of the current against your chest while your elders float on downstream, calling over the roar of the rapids, “Just let go—it’s okay—let go.”
1 tag
“It takes a long time to understand nothing.”
– Edward Dahlberg (via human-voices)
