March 2012
When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For...
– John Lennon (via melodyandviolence)
February 2012
mols:
I think you could fall in love with anyone if you saw the parts of them no one else gets to see. Like if you followed them around invisibly for a day and saw them crying in their bed at night or singing in the shower or humming quietly to themselves as they make a sandwich or even just walking along the street. And even if they were really weird and had no friends at school, I think, after...
Love born in the brain is more spirited, doubtless, than true love, but it has...
– Stendhal, The Red and the Black (via bookmania)
And that’s the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think...
– The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini)
I’m afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.
– Andy Warhol (via misswallflower)
There’s always a moment when you start to fall out of love, whether it’s with a...
– Douglas Adams (via kari-shma)
She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall...
– Simone de Beauvoir (via ungathering)
And that’s what poetry and art does so well for us—it’s a way of finding my way...
– Jack Gilbert (via leopoldgursky)
Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from...
– Charles Bukowski (via thegirlandherbooks)
orbiting.: I’ve been thinking: This is what the... →
girlmeetsdream:
I’ve been thinking: This is what the living do. And yesterday, hurrying along those wobbly bricks in the Cambridge sidewalk,
spilling my coffee down my wrist and sleeve, I thought it again, and again later, when buying a hairbrush:
This is it. Parking. Slamming the car door shut in the…
There is something demoralizing about watching two people get more and more...
– Sylvia Plath (via wandery)
Do you think I’m wonderful?’ she asked him one day as they leaned against the...
– Jonathan Safran Foer (via slekes)
And men said that the blood of the stars flowed in her veins.
– The Silver Chair, by C. S. Lewis (via milkwoods)
Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous...
– E.E. Cummings (via misswallflower)
16. Stop being jealous of others.
– Jealousy is the art of counting someone else’s blessings instead of your own. Ask yourself this: “What’s something I have that everyone wants?”
Diet is the worst four-letter word in the English language. The number one wish...
– Sophia Bush (via playingbackathousandmemories)
There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart’s desire. The other...
– George Bernard Shaw (via misswallflower)