December 2011
“Whenever someone who knows you disappears, you lose one version of yourself....”
– Salman Rushdie, The Ground Beneath Her Feet (via pavorst)
“Call me what you wish
and no matter what that is
I will call you home.”
– Daily Haiku on Love by Tyler Knott Gregson (via tylerknott)
“It takes courage…to endure the sharp pains of self discovery rather than choose...”
– Marianne Williamson (via myquotelibrary)
“Usually we walk around constantly believing ourselves. “I’m okay” we say. “I’m...”
– Markus Zusak, The Book Thief (via blua)
“The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to...”
– Buddha (via blua)
“[A]nything worth dying for … is certainly worth living for.”
– Joseph Heller (Catch-22)
“The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.”
– Deepak Chopra (via middlenameconfused)
“I disconnect the telephone to keep the outside world in its correct place.”
– Tell-All, Chuck Palahniuk (via selfinspiration)
“My heart was a hysterical unreliable organ.”
– Vladimir Nabokov (via atomiclanterns)
“I love Los Angeles. I know a lot of people go there and they see just a huge...”
– David Lynch, Catching The Big Fish (via bbook)
“Nobody stands taller than those willing to stand corrected.”
– ~William Safire (via thesearepeopleyouknow)
“Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when nothing changes a speck,...”
– Life is Funny (via julie911)
“l(a
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one
l
iness”
– e e cummings (via growing-orbits)
“Letting go isn’t a one time thing, its something you do everyday, over and over...”
– Dawson’s Creek (via creatingaquietmind)
“Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.”
– Albert Camus (via inspiri)
“People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who...”
– Five from Isaac Asimov (via nevver)
“Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.”
– Rumi (via ancora-imparo)
“I’m moved by everything broken and crippled. Since that’s how we really are.”
– Anna Kamienska, from In That Great River: A Notebook (translated by Clare Cavanagh)
“Sometimes friends become enemies, but what’s worse is when they become...”
– Hayley Williams, Paramore (via turtledesu)
“When you stopped wishing things wouldn’t fall apart, you’d stop suffering when...”
– John Green, Looking For Alaska (via notgonnaraichualovesong)
“Human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth...”
– Gabriel Garcia Marquez (via myquotelibrary)
“There’s a reason we refer to “leaps of faith” - because the decision to consent...”
– Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love (via atomos)
“I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realizes an emotion...”
– Virginia Woolf (via ancora-imparo)
pavorst:
Once, I was a young rose. I was soft to touch and you yearned for me. Now, my skin has faded away. I am withering and your fingers are still.
“I can write the saddest poem of all tonight. I loved her, and sometimes she...”
– Pablo Neruda
“A thousand Dreams within me softly burn.”
– Arthur Rimbaud (via pavorst)
“It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which...”
– Eleanor Roosevelt (via selfinspiration)
“Stories, like people and butterflies and songbirds’ eggs and human hearts and...”
– Neil Gaiman (via atomos)
“The body is a slave to it’s impulses. But the thing that makes us human is what...”
– Grey’s Anatomy (via raindropsonredroses)
“She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated (via decrepito)
“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche (via larmoyante)
“Christmas gift suggestions: To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent,...”
– Oren Arnold (via middlenameconfused)
“Do you fall in love often? Yes often. With a view, with a book, with a dog, a...”
– Jeanette Winterson (via selfinspiration)
“I used to think the worst thing in life was to end up all alone. It’s not. The...”
– Robin Williams
“Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love.”
– Langston Hughes (via ihavelovedyousolong)
“Can you understand? Someone, somewhere, can you understand me a little, love me...”
– Sylvia Plath (via atomiclanterns)
“I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders.”
– Jewish Proverb (via thelittlephilosopher)
“Open your arms to change, but don’t let go of your values.”
– Dalai Lama (via kari-shma)
“Even a map cannot show you
the way back to a place
that no longer exists.”
– Sandra M. Castillo, from “Christmas, 1970” (via growing-orbits)
“I know some who are constantly drunk on books as other men are drunk on whiskey.”
– H.L. Mencken (via booksandnerds)
“When things break, it’s not the actual breaking that prevents them from getting...”
– John Green (via theskepticisafool)
“Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It’s a...”
– Pema Chödrön (via blua)
“There are people whose religion consists of always forgiving offenses, but who...”
– Albert Camus (via ancora-imparo)
“If I can stop one heart from breaking
I shall not live in vain
If I can ease...”
– Emily Dickinson (via thresca)
“We are born thinking
that simply being in love
will change everything.”
– Daily Haiku on Love by Tyler Knott Gregson (via tylerknott)
“A lovely thing about Christmas is that it’s compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and...”
– Garrison Keillor, Leaving Home (via middlenameconfused)
I don’t think there are really protagonists or...
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wordsorcerer
“…any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the...”
– Clive Barker (Days of Magic, Nights of War)
“And the dangerous thing about excuses is that if we recite them enough times, we...”
– The Secret Letters of The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari, Robin Sharma (via creatingaquietmind)
“Are you getting your period?” She narrows her eyes.
No! God. I hate that. I...”
– The Nature of Jade, Deb Calett (via prima-volta)