May 2011
98 posts
“To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via hi-its-jess)
“Take chances. Tell the truth. Date someone totally wrong for you. Say no. Spend...”
– Anon (via iateadork)
“I no longer believed in the idea of soul mates, or love at first sight. But I...”
– Lisa Kleypas (via atomos)
“It was not enough to be the last guy she kissed. I wanted to be the last one she...”
– John Green (via atomos)
“How do you just stop being terrified of getting left behind and ending up by...”
– An Abundance of Katherines, John Green (via breakdownthedoortoyourheart)
“I don’t know about other people, but when I wake up in the morning and put my...”
– Charles Bukowski (via human-voices)
“The need to travel is a mysterious force. A desire to go runs through me equally...”
– Frances Mayes (via asmu)
“There’s nothing like the deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the...”
– Stephen Chbosky (via atomos)
“We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and — in spite of True Romance...”
– Hunter S. Thompson (via thousandpetallotus)
“Dreams can be such dangerous things; they smolder on like a fire does, and...”
– Arthur Golden (via atomos)
“I heard a man say a poem once,
he said ‘All that lives is holy.’”
– John Steinbeck (via ahuntersheart)
“But in my bed, alone, softly,
without memories, without voice,
I feel that...”
– Salvador Novo (via bearbearpdx)
“Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you...”
– Janet Fitch (via atomos)
“I became a writer at night, beneath the stars. Like an argument between two...”
– Bhanu Kapil (source; via itgivesitthew)
“Love is a temporary madness, it erupts like volcanoes and then subsides. And...”
– Louis de Bernières (via atomos)
“Strange children should smile at each other and say, “Let’s play.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night (via liquidnight)
“Avoid the flourish. Do not be afraid to be weak. Do not be ashamed to be tired....”
– Leonard Cohen (via karsynlandree)
“I feel old, but not very wise.”
– An Education (via kolatea)
“How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young,...”
– (via gnostix1)
“I know exactly how that is. To love somebody who doesn’t deserve it. Because...”
– Augusten Burroughs (via aeloquence)
“You are an explorer, and you represent our species, and the greatest good you...”
– Terence McKenna (via elige)
“Every morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.”
– Buddha (via indaluna)
“when you’re lost in those woods, it sometimes takes you a while to realize that...”
– elizabeth gilbert (via aeon-)
“The air feels punished after you speak.
You’re one of the incurables.
I love...”
– Cal Bedient, Back a Van Gogh Yellow (via trua)
“TO BE HOPEFUL in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the...”
– Howard Zinn (via atomos)
“They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever.”
– Oscar Wilde (via andrewinthehood)
“So that’s how we live our lives. No matter how deep and fatal the loss, no...”
– Haruki Murakami (via atomos)
“Afterwards, she lies nestled against me, her hair tickling my face. I stroke her...”
– Sara Gruen, Water for Elephants (via atomos)
“Or perhaps what matters is not the human pain or joy at all but, rather, the...”
– Vladimir Nabokov, “The Fight” From The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov (via liquidnight)
“Some people react physically to the magic of poetry, to the moments, that is, of...”
– Dylan Thomas (via atomos)
“Give up defining yourself - to yourself or to others. You won’t die. You will...”
– Eckhart Tolle (via atomos)
“Man cannot do without beauty, and this is what our era pretends to want to...”
– Camus. (via r-i-o-t)
“In nineteen minutes, you can mow the front lawn; color your hair; watch a third...”
– Jodi Picoult (via aeloquence)
tendus:
the moon is what my insides look like when you leave just a perfect white circle surrounded in black there’s not much left
“It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are still...”
– George Eliot (via romanholidays)
“Happy. Just in my swim shorts, barefooted, wild-haired, in the red fire dark,...”
– Jack Kerouac (via atomos)
“My spirit. This is a new thought. I’m not sure exactly what it means, but it...”
– The Hunger Games (via like-a-river)
“If anything, you should probably be a little harder on yourself”
– Magnificent Ruin (via nevver)
“It happened. Nobody noticed.”
– Magnificent Ruin (via nevver)
“There’s a reason I said I’d be happy alone. It wasn’t because I thought I’d be...”
– Meredith Grey; Grey’s Anatomy Season 7 Episode 22 (via parttrois)
“Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swaps...”
– Ayn Rand (via atomos)
“Love is just another dirty lie. Love is ergoapiol pills to make me come around...”
– Ernest Hemmingway (via atomos)
“Facing north we invoke the power of the earth. We call upon the power of...”
– Gail Faith Edwards (via atomos)
“And when I start to feel the Big Sadness cutting me up inside I try to remember...”
– Anthony Doerr (The River Nemunas)
“You can’t just make me different and then leave.”
– John Green (Looking for Alaska)
“You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are...”
– Anaïs Nin (via bearbearpdx)
“When it comes to romance, when it comes to love, everyone is in the same boat....”
– Woody Allen on literature and love (via dira)
“We were together. I forget the rest.”
– Walt Whitman (via cavesoflilith) 