August 2011
“When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don’t seem to matter very much, do they?”
—Virginia Woolf (via misswallflower)
“I want a soul mate who can sit me down, shut me up, tell me ten things I don’t already know, and make me laugh. I don’t care what you look like, just turn me on. And if you can do that, I will follow you on bloody stumps through the snow. I will nibble your mukluks with my own teeth. I will do your windows. I will care about your feelings. Just have something in there.”
—Henry Rollins (via hardlygolden)
“Most people fail at whatever they attempt because of an undecided heart. Should I? Should I not? Go forward? Go back? Success requires the emotional balance of a committed heart. When confronted with a challenge, the committed heart will search for a solution. The undecided heart searches for an escape. A committed heart does not wait for conditions to be exactly right. Why? Because conditions are never exactly right.”
—Andy Andrews (via veselabodurova)
“It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime.”
—Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner (via daniellekiemel)
“Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.”
—Anaïs Nin (via misswallflower)
“The moment you feel you are no longer dependent on anyone, a deep coolness and a deep silence settles inside, a relaxed let-go. It does not mean you stop loving. On the contrary, for the first time you know a new quality, a new dimension of love—a love that is no longer biological, a love that is closer to friendliness than any relationship. That’s why I am not even using the word friendship, because that “ship” has drowned so many people.”
—Osho (via loveyourchaos)
“Isn’t it odd how much fatter a book gets when you’ve read it several times? As if something were left between the pages every time you read it. Feelings, thoughts, sounds, smells, and then, when you look at the book again many years later, you find yourself there, too, a slightly younger self, slightly different, as if the book had preserved you like a pressed flower, both strange and familiar.”
—Cornelia Funke (via loveyourchaos)
Acceptance of things
As they are, is a form of
Letting go.
“Love me, because love doesn’t exist, and I have tried everything that does.”
—Jonathan Safran Foer (via misswallflower)
“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”
—Samuel Beckett (via kari-shma)
