May 2013
6 posts
“Don’t let yourself be a victim of your negative thoughts. They’re just thoughts,...”
– (via stevenrosas)
April 2013
13 posts
“You tried to change, didn’t you? Closed your mouth more, tried to be softer,...”
– Warsan Shire (via modernise)
“You don’t know anyone at the party, so you don’t want to go. You don’t like...”
– Julien Smith (via lunaoki)
“I have acid rain in my brain and it’s killing the flowers in my heart.”
– Marianna Paige (via outcamethesun)
“I wish to cry. Yet, I laugh, and my lipstick leaves a red stain like a bloody...”
– Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath (via rabbitinthemoon)
“But be careful…You might do something destructive: hunger is more basic than...”
– Margaret Atwood, The Edible Woman (via topographia)
“Nothing is accidental in the universe - this is one of my Laws of Physics -...”
– Joyce Carol Oates (via topographia)
“I’d cut my soul into a million different pieces just to form a constellation to...”
– Andrea Gibson (via 24ribs)
“We are not going to change the whole world, but we can change ourselves and feel...”
– Swami Satchidananda, The Yoga Sutras (136-137)
“After all, there were old tales told in plenty of the secret land of green good...”
– Colin Mackay, from ‘The Song of the Forest’ (via throughthenoisetothesea)
“It is likely I will die next to a pile of things I was meaning to read.”
– Lemony Snicket (via lilybaeum)
“You don’t have to get a job that makes others feel comfortable about what they...”
– Dear Sugar: The Future Has An Ancient Heart (via ignify)
March 2013
26 posts
“You poured into me
and the cracks I was born with
were settled and smoothed.”
– Daily Haiku on Love by Tyler Knott Gregson (via tylerknott)
“I was born to catch dragons in their dens and pick flowers. To tell tales and...”
– James Kavanaugh (via lajoiedespetiteschoses)
“And that’s the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think...”
– Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner (via bookmania)
“Taught from their infancy that beauty is woman’s sceptre, the mind shapes itself...”
– Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (via one-gold-canary)
“Better to be slapped with the truth than kissed with a lie.”
– Russian Proverb (via dreamsofmedusa)
“Rejoicing in ordinary things is not sentimental or trite. It actually takes...”
– Pema Chödrön (via julie911)
“I was born with a reading list I will never finish.”
– Maud Casey (via thegirlandherbooks)
“My advice is to go ahead and wear an apron when you’re cooking dinner. Always...”
– Unknown (via selfinspiration)
“Cautiously, I allowed myself to feel good at times. I found moments of peace in...”
– Charles Bukowski, Let It Enfold You (via abettterbrenna)
“What would it be like
to live in a library
of melted books.
With sentences...”
– Anne Carson (via larmoyante)
“One kiss from your lips,
one brush from your fingers and
I belonged to you.”
– Tyler Knott Gregson (via silver-shipwrecks)
“Anger is just a cowardly extension of sadness. It’s a lot easier to be angry at...”
– Tom Gates (via aigla)
“Don’t take anything personally. Nothing others do is because of you. What others...”
– Don Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements (via larmoyante)
“Of everything I have seen,
it’s you I want to go on seeing:
of everything I’ve...”
– Pablo Neruda (via rainydaysandblankets)
“Make a radical change in your lifestyle and begin to boldly do things which you...”
– JON KRAKAUER, INTO THE WILD (via theriverjordyn)
“I open your legs with my knee so I don’t have to stain my hands on your light....”
– Hungry Moon (via rabbitinthemoon)
“Beautiful sadness is a myth. Sadness turns our features to clay, not porcelain”
– David Levithan - Every Day (via mercurieux)
“Ordinary life does not interest me. I seek only the high moments. I am in accord...”
– Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934 (via rabbitinthemoon)
“She wasn’t doing a thing that I could see, except standing there, leaning on the...”
– J.D. Salinger, “A Girl I Knew” (via larmoyante)
“to love life, to love it even
when you have no stomach for it
and everything...”
– Ellen Bass, “The Thing Is” (via larmoyante)
“I never wish to be easily defined. I’d rather float over other people’s minds as...”
– Franz Kafka, from a diary entry dated 23 March 1914 (via ornithophily)
“Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes...”
– Leonardo da Vinci (via alifelivedwell)
“Will you come with me to the mountains? It will hurt at first, until your feet...”
– C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce (via rainydaysandblankets)
“There will be days when you want to just throw in the towel and give up. There...”
– excerpt from “letter to my future daughter” by esperanza friel (via byrdseed)
February 2013
15 posts
“We’re running out of time, he said.
As if time were the kind of thing you...”
– Tahereh Mafi, Unravel Me (via omfgbooks)
“And yet it disturbs me to learn I have hurt someone unintentionally. I want all...”
– Margaret Atwood (via ceedling) 