February 2012
“I was within and without. Simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald (via misswallflower)
“Why are people sad? That’s simple. They are the prisoners of their personal...”
– Paulo Coelho (via omoso)
“What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?”
– Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile (via nirvikalpa)
“I chose to stay present,
to unlearn how to unlove,
to love,
and to practice...”
– Buddy Wakefield, “Amplified Stillness” (via loverofstories)
“No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald (via lostsplendor)
“I hoped for nothing. And yet I lived in expectation.”
– Stanisław Lem (via andrewharlow)
“A real education takes place, not in the lecture hall or library, but in the...”
– Stephen Fry (via coffeestainedcashmere)
“One day you fall for this boy. And he touches you with his fingers. And he burns...”
– The Tracey Fragments (via obdormio)
“I don’t want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise (via shesinacoma)
“I don’t think it’s a virtue or an accomplishment to hide or deny your pain so...”
– #186: The lie of “strength.” « CaptainAwkward.com (via notemily)
“Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and...”
– John Green (via larmoyante)
“I have always been unsatisfied with life as most people live it. Always I want...”
– Everett Ruess
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“We always see our worst selves. Our most vulnerable selves. We need someone else...”
– David Levithan (via billowy)
“We don’t choose between experiences, we choose between memories of experiences....”
– Daniel Kahneman (via rememo)
“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you’ve imagined....”
– H.D Thoreau (via lucifelle)
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Michelle Williams for Boy. By Band of Outsiders
“Sometimes the wrong train can take us to the right place.”
– Paulo Coelho (via thirteenbelow)
“A great fire burns within me, but no one stops to warm themselves at it, and...”
– Vincent van Gogh (via fragilethoughts-)
“The life I want, there is no shortcut.”
– Jenny Mellor, An Education (via unejeunedemoiselle)
“If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not...”
– Anne Bradstreet (via corona-borealis)
“It’s the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet...”
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky (via shesinacoma)
“Cherish your solitude. Take trains by yourself to places you have never been....”
– Eve Ensler (via girlinlondon)
“The smell of her hair, the taste of her mouth, the feeling of her skin seemed to...”
– 1984, George Orwell (via audreylostinparis)
“The anxiety was overwhelming- something like the feeling of having been left...”
– Great House, Nicole Krauss (via idontknowwhattonamemytumblr)