- there's really no such thing as the 'voiceless'. there are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard. - arundhati roy
- be - don't try to become. - osho
- what you seek is seeking you. - rumi
- the world has a serious shortage of both logic and kindness. - haruki murakami, iq84
- our bodies are merely shells which conceal our heavenly souls. try not to get too uptight. - freaks and geeks
- don't grieve. everything you lose comes round in another form. - rumi
- life is beautiful. really, it is. full of beauty and illusions. life is great. without it, you'd be dead. - gummo
- don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. unfold your own myth. - rumi
- even the wise man dwells in the fool's paradise. - neil strauss (the game)
- look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under it. - william shakespeare
- give every man thy ear but few thy voice. - william shakespeare
- if they don't need you, it's okay, you do not live for other people. - kyo
- remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck. - dalai lama
- my alone feels so good, i'll only have you if you're sweeter than my solitude. - warsan shire
- i've always had a terrible weakness for beautiful but sad things - sylvain reynard
- she is madness, sanity. she is hell, paradise. - ellen hopkins
- be soft. do not let the world make you hard. do not let pain make you hate. do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe it to be a beautiful place. - kurt vonnegut, jr.
- i don't want just words. if that's all you have for me, you'd better go. - f. scott fitzgerald (the beautiful and damned)
- i want to go places and meet people. i want my mind to grow. i want to live where things happen on a big scale. - f. scott fitzgerald (the ice palace)
- don't settle. don't finish crappy books. if you don't like the menu, leave the restaurant. if you're not on the right path, get off it. - chris bogan
- she lives the poetry she cannot write. - oscar wilde
- i would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. i would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary. - margaret atwood
- i write differently from what I speak, i speak differently from what I think, i think differently from the way i ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness. - franz kafka
- the desire to be together in order to not feel alone is an unfortunate symptom, in my opinion. every person needs to learn from childhood how to spend time with oneself. that doesn't mean he should be lonely, but that he shouldn't grow bored with himself because people who grow bored in their own company seem to me in danger, from a self-esteem point of view. - andrei tarkovsky
- there are two people you will meet in your life. one will run a finger down the index of who you are and jump straight to the parts of you that peak their interest. the other will take his or her time reading through every one of your chapters and maybe fold corners of you that inspired them most. you will meet these two people; it is a given. it is the third that you'll never see coming. that one person who not only finishes your sentences, but keeps the book. - (a fortuitous happening)
- we are always waiting for something. for it to be the weekend, to be finished with school, till summer, till we are 18. we are always god damn waiting, and what's sad is we miss every beautiful moment in our whole lives waiting for tomorrow and for the future. we end up skipping our last day waiting on a tomorrow that will never come. - (unknown)
- find what you love and let it kill you. - charles bukowski
- socializing is as exhausting as giving blood. people assume we loners are misanthropes, just sitting thinking, 'oh, people are such a bunch of assholes,' but it's really not like that. we just have a smaller tolerance for what it takes to be with others. it means having to perform. i get so tired of communicating. - anneli rufus
- who would you like to marry? she wondered. and the other girl responded, i think i’d like to marry a writer. that way, when we make love, he’d fill me up with all his words. can you imagine that? all those syllables and consonants and vowels swimming inside my body. i’d never run out of words for the rest of my life. - fragment
- you don’t ever have to feel guilty about removing toxic people from your life. it doesn’t matter whether someone is a relative, romantic interest, employer, childhood friend, or a new acquaintance — you don’t have to make room for people who cause you pain or make you feel small. it’s one thing if a person owns up to their behavior and makes an effort to change. but if a person disregards your feelings, ignores your boundaries, and continues to treat you in a harmful way, they need to go. - daniell koepke
oct 19 2012 ∞
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