April 2009
It never occurs to anyone that she might have loved someone and that it was...
– Milan Kundera (“The Book of Laughter and Forgetting”) (via aganju)
Above all, don’t fear difficult moments,
she said.
The best comes from them.
– Levi Montalcini (via aganju)
The world stands out on either side
No wider than the heart is wide;
Above the...
– Edna St. Vincent Millay, Renascence (via robot-heart)
Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles.
– Charlie Chaplin (via kattherapy)
Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let the pain make you hate....
– (via vainbuthonest) (via justlia) (via lovelygreenlight) (via embracingsophia) (via merricat) (via morganmartinez) (via anew) (via 42th)
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of...
– Helen Keller (via littlemiss)
Being vulnerable doesn’t have to be threatening. Just have the courage to be...
– Sarah Paddison (via littlemiss)
I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by...
– Anais Nin (via littlemiss)
I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am...
– Oscar Wilde (via affremblequotes)
Memory is fiction. We select the brightest and the darkest, ignoring what we are...
– Epilogue to Isabel Allende’s Portrait in Sepia
(via capricious)
(via justlia) (via robot-heart)
We need not be afraid to touch, to feel, to show emotion. The easiest thing in...
– Leo Buscaglia (via onherway) (via thresca)
Love takes off the masks we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live...
– James Baldwin (via thresca)
It’s pain that changes our lives.
– Steve Martin (Shopgirl: A Novella) (via thresca)
It doesn’t matter how tough we are. Trauma always leaves a scar. It follows us...
– Alex Karev, Grey’s Anatomy (via thoughtsdetained: tvquotes: breathsoftruth) (via thresca)
The saddest kind of sad is the sad that tries not to be sad. You know, when Sad...
– - John Mayer (via bandages) (via alishalynnlovely)
this is exactly how i feel right now. (via soiledteenagedgirlfriend) (via horrorshow122)
I don’t want to bite my lip anymore. I want to bite yours. And show you that that’s how you and I can both be happy.
(via dodgingmirrors)
(via 42th)
You can never really know someone completely. That’s why it’s the most...
– Libba Bray (via thresca)
If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun.
– Katharine Hepburn (via littlemiss)
It’s not so much that we’re afraid of change or so in love with the old ways,...
– Marilyn Ferguson (via victoryblues) (via gatekeeper) (via onherway)
To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.
– Francis Bacon, Sr. (via aganju)
Growing up is never easy. You hold on to things that were. You wonder what’s to...
– The Wonder Years (via inspiri) (via thresca)
We all have the potential to fall in love a thousand times in our lifetime. It’s...
– Chuck Klosterman (via victoryblues) (via iguessthatscool) (via unicornology) (via jessicachu) (via pearlsbeforeswine) (via resurgam)
It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been...
– Bertrand Russell
Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
– Dalai Lama (via aganju)
aganju:
Human beings are funny. They long to be with the person they love but refuse to admit openly. Some are afraid to show even the slightest sign of affection because of fear. Fear that their feelings may not be recognized, or even worst, returned. But one thing about human beings puzzles me the most is their conscious effort to be connected with the object of their affection even if it...
So love the people who treat you right, forget about the ones who don’t, and...
– Grey’s Anatomy (via aganju)
The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there…...
– Stephen King (via aganju)
The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. Whenever evil wins, it is only by...
– Ayn Rand
The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good...
– ALBERT CAMUS, The Plague
Heartbeat
In a heartbeat, I would trade everything in my life for two things, solitude, and most importantly, solace. Solitude has always been easy to achieve, but as for solace, it has proved most elusive.
Excuse the poor usage of style, consrtuction, etc as this was written soley for content.
You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the...
– James Baldwin (via thresca)
Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you...
– Janet Fitch (White Oleander)
Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn’t it? It makes you so vulnerable....
– Neil Gaiman
Tears are the safety valve of the heart when too much pressure is laid on it.
– Albert Smith
Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself...
– Kurt Vonnegut
You’ll never find the right person, if you never let go of the wrong one.
– (via littlemiss) (via cafe) (via shany) (via thresca)
Listen. To live is to be marked. To live is to change, to acquire the words of a...
– [barbara kingsolver] (via comeanddance) (via oneshouldreadeverything) (via 42th)
The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you...
– Maureen Dowd (via littlemiss)
I’m so awesome, Waldo found me.
– Grant Ison