May 2013
2 posts
I don’t love studying. I hate studying. I like learning. Learning is beautiful.
– Natalie Portman (via emotional-algebra)
I wait and ache.
– Sylvia Plath, “Three Women” (via perfect)
In every job that must be done there is an element of fun!
– Mary Poppins (via inspiremetobeinspired)
Angry, and half in love with you, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.
– F. Scott Fitzgerald (via whskey)
April 2013
20 posts
She was terrific to hold hands with. Most girls if you hold hands with them,...
– J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye (via my-dark-star)
I like to wait while his mouth kisses my neck, moving down to where my neckline...
– Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals (via perfect)
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If I had to live my life again, I’d make the same mistakes, only sooner.
– Tallulah Bankhead
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Spring won’t let me stay in this house any longer! I must get out and...
– Gustav Mahler
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Art is anything people do with distinction.
– Louis Dudek
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With our love, we could save the world.
– George Harrison
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Experience is the teacher of all things.
– Julius Caesar
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A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
– Henrik Ibsen
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The only normal people are the one’s you don’t know very well.
– Alfred Adler
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Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.
– Winston Churchill
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Creativity takes courage.
– Henri Matisse
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Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking...
– Theodor Adorno
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If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live...
– Emile Zola
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It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the...
– John Steinbeck
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If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would...
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.
– Stephen Fry
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A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas.
– Charles Dudley Warner
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To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
– Charles de Montesquieu
March 2013
1 post
February 2013
8 posts
We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing...
– Luciano de Crescenzo (via larmoyante)
Maybe it’s just in America, but it seems that if you’re passionate about...
– Tim Burton (via thewastedgeneration)
You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there...
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (via attaches)
Why do you live in your body like you will be given another? As if it were...
– Warsan Shire (via wryer)
I’m not gonna sit around and waste my precious divine energy trying to explain...
– Esperanza Spalding (via thewastedgeneration)
January 2013
15 posts
But I like you.” He cleared his throat. “I like you first and second and third.
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise (via freecocaine)
I sometimes think that people’s hearts are like deep wells. Nobody knows what’s...
– Haruki Murakami, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman (via perfect)
Yes, I was quite infatuated with you: I am, still. No one has ever heightened...
– Sylvia Plath (via perfect)
…I’m lost. And it’s my own fault. It’s about time I figured out that I can’t ask...
– Anne Sexton; from a letter dated April 1959 in “Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters” (via litverve)
If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
– Zora Neale Hurston (via perfect)
You can’t force love, I realized. It’s there or it isn’t. If it’s not there,...
– Richelle Mead (via perfect)
That’s who you really like. The people you can think out loud in front of.
– John Green (via unative)
I realise there’s something incredibly honest about trees in winter, how they’re...
– Jeffrey McDaniel (via creatingaquietmind)
December 2012
15 posts
Sitting there drinking, I considered suicide, but I felt a strange fondness for...
– Charles Bukowski (via larmoyante)