Words

"Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?"

Mon, 20 May 2013 12:54:46 -0400

“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”

- Mary Oliver (via awelltraveledwoman)

"And all they knew of hate was that it couldn’t beat the love out of me."

Mon, 13 May 2013 18:58:57 -0400

“And all they knew of hate was that it couldn’t beat the love out of me.”

- Andrea Gibson (via highesthill)

"I’m only quiet because I’m worried that if you push me too far, one day I will open my mouth and I..."

Sun, 12 May 2013 23:01:40 -0400

“I’m only quiet because I’m worried that if you push me too far, one day I will open my mouth and I will scream so loudly, it will shatter and break the whole world.”

- I Wrote This For You (via creatingaquietmind)

"One writes of scars healed, a loose parallel to the pathology of the skin, but there is no such..."

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 12:26:06 -0400

“One writes of scars healed, a loose parallel to the pathology of the skin, but there is no such thing in the life of an individual. There are open wounds, shrunk sometimes to the size of a pin-prick but wounds still. The marks of suffering are more comparable to the loss of a finger, or of the sight of an eye. We may not miss them, either, for one minute in a year, but if we should there is nothing to be done about it.”

- F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night (via magrittesque)

"Never complain, never explain."

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 13:42:28 -0400

“Never complain, never explain.”

- Kate Moss (via monsieurwintour)

"Look at you. You’re young. And you’re scared. Why are you so scared? Stop being paralyzed. Stop..."

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 03:24:15 -0400

“Look at you. You’re young. And you’re scared. Why are you so scared? Stop being paralyzed. Stop swallowing your words. Stop caring what other people think. Wear what you want. Say what you want. Listen to the music you want to listen to. Play it loud as fuck and dance to it. Go out for a drive at midnight and forget that you have school the next day. Stop waiting for Friday. Live now. Do it now. Take risks. Tell secrets. This life is yours. When are you going to realize that you can do whatever you want?”

- Louise Flory (via lunaoki)

"Being kind isn’t always easy. Or convenient. But it has the potential to change everything."

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 13:57:59 -0400

“Being kind isn’t always easy. Or convenient. But it has the potential to change everything.”

- Cap Watkins (via nevver)

"It may be the wrong decision, but fuck it, it’s mine."

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 13:56:13 -0400

“It may be the wrong decision, but fuck it, it’s mine.”

- Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves (via obdormio)

"Relax. You will become an adult. You will figure out your career. You will find someone who loves..."

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 13:55:02 -0400

“Relax. You will become an adult. You will figure out your career. You will find someone who loves you. You have a whole lifetime; time takes time. The only way to fail at life is to abstain.”

- Johanna de Silentio (via wendesgray)

"The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the..."

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 13:52:46 -0400

“The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.”

- Papa Hemingway (via h-o-r-n-g-r-y)

"It’s difficult in times like these: ideals, dreams and cherished hopes rise within us, only to be..."

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 03:50:52 -0400

“It’s difficult in times like these: ideals, dreams and cherished hopes rise within us, only to be crushed by grim reality. It’s a wonder I haven’t abandoned all my ideals, they seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart. I simply can’t build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery, and death. I hear the approaching thunder that, one day, will destroy us too, I feel the suffering of millions. And yet, when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that this cruelty too shall end, and that peace & tranquility will return once again.”

- Anne Frank (via eloquence)

"Her smile, I’m sure, burnt Rome to the ground."

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 03:06:39 -0400

“Her smile, I’m sure, burnt Rome to the ground.”

- Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves (via blua)

"How will I survive this missing? How do others do it? People die all the time. Every day. Every..."

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 21:01:57 -0400

“How will I survive this missing? How do others do it? People die all the time. Every day. Every hour. There are families all over the world staring at beds that are no longer slept in, shoes that are no longer worn. Families that no longer have to buy a particular cereal, a kind of shampoo. There are people everywhere standing in line at the movies, buying curtains, walking dogs, while inside their hearts are ripping to shreds. For years. For their whole lives. I don’t believe time heals. I don’t want it to. If I heal, doesn’t that mean I’ve accepted the world without her?”

- Jandy Nelson, The Sky Is Everywhere (via creatingaquietmind)

"Everyone who terrifies you is sixty-five percent water. And everyone you love is made of stardust,..."

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 18:11:06 -0400

“Everyone who terrifies you is sixty-five percent water. And everyone you love is made of stardust, and I know sometimes you cannot even breathe deeply, and the night sky is no home, and you have cried yourself to sleep enough times that you are down to your last two percent, but nothing is infinite, not even loss. You are made of the sea and the stars, and one day you are going to find yourself again.”

- F. Butler (via prettypaperquotes)

"when Whitman wrote, “I sing the body electric” I know what he meant I know what he wanted: to be..."

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 22:02:20 -0400

“

when Whitman wrote, “I sing the body electric”

I know what he
meant
I know what he
wanted:

to be completely alive every moment
in spite of the inevitable.

we can’t cheat death but we can make it
work so hard
that when it does take
us

it will have known a victory just as
perfect as
ours.

”

- Charles Bukowski, “a song with no end,” adapted (via violentwavesofemotion)

"It’s not our job to toughen our children up to face a cruel and heartless world. It’s our job to..."

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 12:40:29 -0400

“It’s not our job to toughen our children up to face a cruel and heartless world. It’s our job to raise children who will make the world a little less cruel and heartless.”

- L.R.Knost (via wendesgray)

"And I know that this life is the only real form of happiness, But sometimes in its midst I can hear..."

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 15:10:11 -0400

“And I know that this life is the only real form of happiness,
But sometimes in its midst I can hear the dense, stifled sob
Of the unreal one we might have known, and when that ends
And my eyes are filled with tears, time seems to have stopped
And we are alone in the park where it is almost twenty years ago
And the future is still an immense, open dream.”

- John Koethe, from “In the Park” (via creatingaquietmind)

"You’re beautiful, but you’re empty. No one could die for you."

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 22:21:04 -0400

“You’re beautiful, but you’re empty. No one could die for you.”

- The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint Exupéry (via sheandherdarkness)

"You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are..."

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 20:17:56 -0400

““You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.””

- Mahatma Gandhi (via aprettypreppylife)

"If you can’t get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you’d best take it out and teach it to dance."

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 19:30:44 -0400

“If you can’t get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you’d best take it out and teach it to dance.”

- George Bernard Shaw (via thesepageshere)