December 2011
53 posts
“The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to...”
– Buddha (via blua)
“You are so young, so much before all beginning, and I would like to beg you,...”
–
Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet (trans. Stephen Mitchell)
this is perfect for what I’m feeling right now.
“What makes people despair is that they try to find a universal meaning to the...”
– Anaïs Nin (via dziahilevian)
My aim in life is to have experiences. Good or bad; I don’t care. I just want to live.
Only through experience can one truly gain an understanding of other people and their motives. I want to write an accurate portrayal of people. Truth has its own intellectual beauty.
“Being nice doesn’t make you stupid. It makes you feel good because you know you...”
– C.S. Lewis (via runawaytrain)
“I have always thought of Christmas-time as a good time; a kind, forgiving,...”
– A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens. (via aacissej)
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you...”
– Mark Twain (via quote-book)
“People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed,...”
– Audrey Hepburn (via quote-book)
“It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.”
– Marcel Proust (via napoleoncomplex)
“You still have a lot of time to make yourself be what you want. There’s still...”
– The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton (via quote-book)
“The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be...”
– George Bernard Shaw, The Devil’s Disciple (via imfantasyparade)
“You can never make the same mistake twice. The second time it’s no longer a...”
– Lauren Conrad (via crumblinghearts)
“Each of us has heaven and hell in him.”
– Oscar Wilde (via misswallflower)
“And I want to be held down. I don’t know what to do with the horrifying freedom...”
– Clarice Lispector (via misswallflower)
“Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.”
– Hermann Hesse (via quote-book)
“There are moments in novels that are absolutely true—and those are the kinds of...”
– Jeffrey Eugenides, interview in The Paris Review no. 199 (via leopoldgursky)
“That’s who you really like. The people you can think out loud in front of.”
– John Green (via therewaseden)
raising-romulus:
The Sound of Silence - Simon...
“If you wake up at a different time, in a different place, could you wake up as a...”
– ~~ Chuck Palahnuik
“I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.”
– Kurt Vonnegut (via therainyresistance)
bullettmedia:
Born To Die by Lana Del Rey
