May 2013
24 posts
Life has loveliness to sell,
All beautiful and splendid things,
Blue waves...
– Sara Teasdale (via sleepy-listener)
The oddest things hurt me. They get stuck in my head and replay over and over.
– (via middecember)
As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they...
– Andrew Carnegie (via cowichansweater)
People inspire you, or they drain you — pick them wisely.
– Hans F. Hansen (via marisais)
You must love in such a way that the person you love feels free.
– Thich Nhat Hanh (via lavender-serendipity)
We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us...
– Fyodor Dostoevsky (via velveteeendreams)
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of...
– Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird (via platea)
People, I have discovered, are layers and layers of secrets. You believe you...
– Veronica Roth, Insurgent (via platea)
Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you...
– Janet Fitch, White Oleander (via fleurare)
April 2013
30 posts
You are most powerful when you are most silent. People never expect silence....
– Alison McGhee
(via her0inchic)
Stop being tormented by everyone else’s reaction to you.
– Joyce Meyer (via nowtheresthatfearagain)
People speak sometimes about the “bestial” cruelty of man, but that is terribly...
– Fyodor Dostoevsky (via narcotic)
Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant.
– Martin Heidegger, Who is Nietzsche’s Zarathustra? (via mythologyofblue)
It was a strange winter and nothing and everything happened.
– Gertrude Stein, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (via mythologyofblue)
We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension,...
– Anaïs Nin (via considerthishippie)
It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do...
– Island, Aldous Huxley (via commovente)
How strange and how lovely it is to be anything at all.
– John Green, The Fault in Our Stars (via 4mbivalent)
Be very, very careful what you put into that head, because you’ll never, ever...
– Thomas Cardinal Wolsey (via middecember)
People will kill you over time, and how they’ll kill you is with tiny, harmless...
– Dylan Moran (via middecember)
There are three classes of people: those who see. Those who see when they are...
– Leonardo da Vinci (via art-and-fury)
And all my days are trances,
And all my nightly dreams
Are where thy grey eye...
– Edgar Allan Poe - To One in Paradise (via art-and-fury)
Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of...
– Stephen King (via art-and-fury)
We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension,...
– Anaïs Nin (via mirroir)
Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.
– Ray Bradbury (via mirroir)