March 2012
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“I actually attack the concept of happiness. The idea that - I don’t mind people...”
– Hugh Mackay (via aeloquence)
“When people walk away from you, let them go. You shouldn’t have to talk them...”
– Unknown (via 24ribs)
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“Gone. The saddest word in the language. In any language.”
– Mark Slouka (via carouselinparis)
“Because it’s a story that reminds us of the worst part of humanity. We’re living...”
– Jennifer Lawrence on The Hunger Games (via sharetheturnips)
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“He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.”
– Joseph Joubert (via libraryland)
“She was reflecting back on a truth she had learned over the years: that people...”
– Jeffery Deaver (via amandaonwriting)
“I want to rip off your logic and make passionate sense to you. I want to ride in...”
– Jeffrey McDaniel (via beautiful-ambition)
February 2012
“‘What caused you this pain in your heart?’, she asked. “My eyes. I had them...”
– The Feast of Love by Charles Baxter (via anditslove)
“I’m caught somewhere in between alive, and living a dream.”
– Jack’s Mannequin, Caves (via anditslove)
“real life is so hard
we hide in the stars
that’s where our heads are
my head...”
– dave grohl (via highonflowers)
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“One day I will forgive you; until then there are scabs everywhere that you have...”
– Salvador Plascencia (via middlenameconfused)
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“Books. People have no idea how beautiful books are. How they taste on your...”
– Rachel Kadish, Tolstoy Lied: A Love Story (via atomiclanterns)
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“What is important is not the quantity of your knowledge but its quality. You can...”
– Leo Tolstoy (via paperlover)
“You look ridiculous if you dance. You look ridiculous if you don’t dance. So you...”
– Gertrude Stein (via theskepticisafool)
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“Oh where did all my words go —
my old words, my lost words?
Did you ever feel...”
– Jackie Kay, from “Old Tongue” (via growing-orbits)
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“In life you will meet two kinds of people. Ones who build you up, and ones who...”
– Anonymous (via myquotelibrary)
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“Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one’s own sunshine.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via julie911)
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“Why did you do all this for me?” he asked. “I don’t deserve it. I’ve never done...”
– E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web (via 35bit)
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“A final comfort that is small, but not cold: The heart is the only broken...”
– T.E. Kalem (via lovebot)
“Sometimes when you’re too close to someone, it’s hard to see who they really...”
– Kirsten Miller, The Eternal Ones (via creatingaquietmind)
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a simple prayer.
thedustdancestoo:
tomorrow,
if i awake,
give me the strength
to stand up,
raise my lips to the sun,
and drink.
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Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
-Zelda Fitzgerald
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“Forgiving people who have hurt you is your gift to them. Forgetting people who...”
– Anonymous (via myquotelibrary)
“When something seems to go wrong, it’s invariably part of a larger right.”
– Jed McKenna (via inspiri)
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“We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our...”
– Voltaire (via thesearepeopleyouknow)
“So often we only do what we think is expected of us, when we are capable of so...”
– Cynthia Hand (via creatingaquietmind)
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“My dad always says, some people will treat you badly and you can’t help that....”
– Elise Broach (Shakespeare’s Secret)
“Everybody wants to be on the mountaintop, but if you’ll remember, mountaintops...”
– Andy Andrews (via myquotelibrary)
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“She’s never where she is,” I said. “She’s only inside her head.”
– Janet Fitch, White Oleander (via cosmosamantes)
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“Remember that at any given moment there are a thousand things you can love.”
– David Levithan, The Realm of Possibility (via bookmania)
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“In this world, love has no color — yet look how deeply my body is stained by...”
– Izumi Shikibu (via alexandremcqueen)
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“The heart is a muscle, and what do muscles do when they are torn? They grow back...”
– (via eletheowl)
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“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)
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“Sacrifice. I made one. You made one. We all make them. But you were angry over...”
– Mitch Albom (via troubled)
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“One of the tasks of true friendship is to listen compassionately and creatively...”
– John O’Donohue (via middlenameconfused)
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“You are a sentence with no punctuation, a kaleidoscope full of colors that I...”
– Rudy Francisco (via iikaptain)
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“There is nothing rational about love. Love, love stutters when it gets nervous,...”
– Rudy Francisco (via yourveryfleshshallbeagreatpoem)
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“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)
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“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)
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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-
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“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)
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“Some days I call my arms “wings” while my head is in the clouds. It...”
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“But I’d rather look back and regret something I did when I was young and crazy,...”
– Cherrie Lynn (via sparksfly)
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“The logic of the heart is absurd.”
– Julie de Lespinasse (via creatingaquietmind)
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“Anger is a valid emotion. It’s only bad when it takes control and makes you do...”
– Ellen Hopkins, Fallout (via todayithought)