“If you are depressed you are living in the past. If you are anxious you are living in the future. If you are at peace you are living in the present.”
—Lao Tzu (via marinaaaaxo)
June 2011
“Because we don’t know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, an afternoon that is so deeply a part of your being that you can’t even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four, five times more, perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps 20. And yet it all seems limitless.”
—Paul Bowles (Thank you for the reminder, buffleheadcabin & journalofanobody)
“Keep in mind that people change, but the past doesn’t.”
—Becca Fitzpatrick (via andshewashurricane)
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“I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know?”
—Ernest Hemingway (via sineadmarguerite)
“She was like the moon—part of her was always hidden away.”
—Dia Reeves (Bleeding Violet)
“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.”
—Marcus Aurelius (via girlwithoutwings)
“Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.”
—Henry James (via misswallflower)
“In art and dream may you proceed with abandon.
In life may you proceed with balance and stealth.” —Patti Smith (via claudere)
In life may you proceed with balance and stealth.” —Patti Smith (via claudere)
“I wonder why it is that we so often imprison ourselves in the opinions of other people. There can be no punishment worse than conspiring in our own diminishment.”
—~Dawna Markova (via thesearepeopleyouknow)
“Love is a form of prejudice. You love what you need, you love what makes you feel good, you love what is convenient. How can you say you love one person when there are ten thousand people in the world that you would love more if you ever met them? But you’ll never meet them.”
—Charles Bukowski (via human-voices)
“What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.”
—Oscar Wilde (via romanholidays)
May 2011
“Soon we will be strangers. No, we can never be that. Hurting someone is an act of reluctant intimacy. We will be dangerous acquaintances with a history.”
—Hanif Kureishi, Intimacy (via inmyskin)
“You want to cry aloud for your mistakes. But to tell the truth the world doesn’t need any more of that sound.”
—Mary Oliver (via misswallflower)
“She must find a boat and sail in it. No guarantee of shore. Only a conviction that what she wanted could exist, if she dared to find it.”
—Jeanette Winterson (Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit)
“Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.”
—Sir Winston Churchill (via distantheartbeats)
“That secret was a hole in the middle of me that every happy thing fell into.”
—Jonathan Safran Foer (via anditslove)
