February 2012
“Remember that at any given moment there are a thousand things you can love.”
– David Levithan, The Realm of Possibility (via bookmania)
“In this world, love has no color — yet look how deeply my body is stained by...”
– Izumi Shikibu (via alexandremcqueen)
“The heart is a muscle, and what do muscles do when they are torn? They grow back...”
– (via eletheowl)
“My heart was too big for my body, so I let it go.”
– Anis Mojgani (via atomiclanterns)
“That’s the worst of growing up, and I’m beginning to realize it. The things you...”
– L.M. Montgomery (via wordslikeknifes)
“Sacrifice. I made one. You made one. We all make them. But you were angry over...”
– Mitch Albom (via troubled)
“One of the tasks of true friendship is to listen compassionately and creatively...”
– John O’Donohue (via middlenameconfused)
“You are a sentence with no punctuation, a kaleidoscope full of colors that I...”
– Rudy Francisco (via iikaptain)
“There is nothing rational about love. Love, love stutters when it gets nervous,...”
– Rudy Francisco (via yourveryfleshshallbeagreatpoem)
“When you love me, it’s as if God forgave me for being the mess I am.”
– Alison, The Magus by John Fowles (via creatingaquietmind)
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“I have an odd fascination with ice sculptures and sand castles. I assume it’s...”
– (via thehazelnuttt)
“Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.”
– Virginia Woolf (via girlwithoutwings)
“The work of an unknown good man is like a vein of water flowing hidden...”
– Thomas Carlyle (via growing-orbits)
Illusion
tylerknott:
What an utter disgrace it would be to find something truly magic and spend any time at all pretending and trying to convince yourself it’s all just an unbelievably orchestrated and beautifully choreographed illusion. -Tyler Knott Gregson-
“If you’re losing your soul and you know it, then you’ve still got a soul left to...”
– Charles Bukowski (via imtryingimtrying)
this is incredibly relevant
(via imtryingimtrying)
“It’s not just other people we need to forgive. We also need to forgive...”
– Mitch Albom (via anditslove)
“It’s delicious to have people adore you, but it’s exhausting, too. Particularly...”
– Tasha Alexander, A Fatal Waltz (via psychotherapy)
“Some days I call my arms “wings” while my head is in the clouds. It...”
“But I’d rather look back and regret something I did when I was young and crazy,...”
– Cherrie Lynn (via sparksfly)
“The logic of the heart is absurd.”
– Julie de Lespinasse (via creatingaquietmind)
“Anger is a valid emotion. It’s only bad when it takes control and makes you do...”
– Ellen Hopkins, Fallout (via todayithought)
“It made me wonder how many times we forgive just because we don’t want to lose...”
– (via eletheowl)
“Those who walk away from you in the dark should be forgotten in the light.”
– I Wrote This For You: The Things I Have Felt Have Torn Me Apart (via creatingaquietmind)
“Socializing is as exhausting as giving blood. People assume we loners are...”
– Anneli Rufus (via trulylovely)
The greatest battle is not against ignorance but...
“I want to be alone and I want people to notice me - both at the same time.”
– Thom Yorke (via agelessbeauty12)
“A person can grow only as much as his horizon allows.”
– John Powell (via kari-shma)
“It’s not the changes that will break your heart; it’s that tug of familiarity.”
– Jennifer E. Smith, The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight (via todayithought)
“Will you kiss my skin
and leave the outline of lips
as your signature?”
– Daily Haiku on Love by Tyler Knott Gregson (via tylerknott)
“Time takes it all. Whether you want it to or not, time takes it all away, time...”
– Stephen King (via raindropsonredroses)
“If they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread, they can sure make something...”
– Muhammad Ali (via justbesplendid)
“The worst is when someone in your past trumps the person in your present, and...”
– Emily Giffin (via runawaytrain)
“People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because...”
– H. Jackson Browne (via kari-shma)
“We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (via reluctantbuddha)
“I hoped for nothing. And yet I lived in expectation.”
– Stanisław Lem (via 24ribs)
“It’s dark.
You exhale a fist of memory.
I love you like weathering wood
in a...”
– James L. White, from “Lying in Sadness” in The Salt Ecstasies (via proustitute)
Loud if You Listen
You used to complain that I was too silent, but you just weren’t listening.
“She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.”
– Gwendolyn Brooks (via misswallflower)
“Anxiety is love’s greatest killer. It creates the failures. It makes others feel...”
– Anaïs Nin (via middlenameconfused)
“It’s a sad day when you find out that it’s not accident or time or fortune, but...”
– Lillian Hellman (via danmariethekoala)
“To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world.”
– Anthony Burgess (via ancora-imparo)
“You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to...”
– Richard P. Feynman (via creatingaquietmind)
flammable.
thedustdancestoo:
my lips are matches,
and yours are sparks.
observando:
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
-Isaac Asimov
“I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.”
– Bob Dylan (via kari-shma)
“I just want your skin,
every single piece of it,
covered by my lips.”
– Daily Haiku on Love by Tyler Knott Gregson (via tylerknott)
“Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much...”
– (via lifeasadaydream)
“Where you invest your love, you invest your life.”
– Mumford & Sons (via papercrushed)
“When a man gives his opinion, he’s a man. When a woman gives her opinion, she’s...”
– Bette Davis (via prima-volta)
“A book is like a piece of rope; it takes on meaning only in connection with the...”
– Norman Cousins (via faith—pixiedust)