May 2013
atramentum:
You are not made of stone. There was a moment when you believed you were, when you built a fortress and equipped your body with armor that could protect you from the fire outside, the arrows flying from all directions. Life will eventually break through and remind you that you’re just another mortal body that crumbles under dysphoria and the things-that-remind-you-of. He will...
“Everything is more beautiful because we are doomed. You will never be lovelier...”
– Homer, The Iliad (via ohfairies)
“I’m not gonna sit around and waste my precious divine energy trying to explain...”
– Esperanza Spalding (via likeafieldmouse)
“We’ve got a sort of brainwashing going on in our country, Morrie sighed. Do you...”
– Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie (via atramentum)
“People always say that when you love someone, nothing in the world matters. But...”
– “Handle with Care” by Jodi Picoult (via kari-shma)
“In a child’s eyes, a mother is a goddess. She can be glorious or terrible,...”
– N. K Jemisin, A Hundred Thousand Kingdoms (via helplesslyamazed)
“In truth, you like the pain. You like it because you believe you deserve it.”
– Marya Hornbacher (via kitty-en-classe)
“I don’t blame you for being you, but you can’t blame me for hating it.”
– Fall Out Boy - A Little Less Sixteen Candles, A Little More “Touch Me” (via mrjoshua79)
“Do not bring people in your life who weigh you down. And trust your instincts…...”
– Michelle Obama (via kristnohhh)
“They do not teach you this in school. They do not show you the beauty of...”
– (via dissonancemindwave)
atomiclanterns:
I’m starting to realise one of the worst things we can do as people is to undermine other’s passions or the love they share with other people. a person looking at someone else’s relationship and thinking that theirs is more developed, genuine or loving, or that this relationship lacks something which you possess, is just ridiculous. On the bus the other day I heard some girl...
“I bought plum blossoms
more for the name
than for the color;
I buy lipstick...”
– Dorothea Grossman, “Untitled” (via ethereally)
“Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office...”
– Jack Kerouac (via likeafieldmouse)
“‘If the girl had been worth having she’d have waited for you?’ No, sir, the girl...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise (via pederost)
“When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.”
– Ernest Hemingway (via likeafieldmouse)
“Before I die, I want to be somebody’s favorite hiding place, the place they can...”
– Andrea Gibson (via floralnymph)
“No existence can be validly fulfilled if it is limited to itself.”
– Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics Of Ambiguity (via fuckyeahexistentialism)
“Pain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it,...”
– Audre Lorde (via larmoyante)
“People speak sometimes about the ‘bestial’ cruelty of man, but that is terribly...”
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky (via pink-bullets)
“Aren’t we all waiting to be read by someone, praying that they’ll tell us that...”
– Rudy Francisco (via likeafieldmouse)
“You are the universe, expressing itself as a human for a little while.”
– Eckhart Tolle (via ohfairies)
“Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.”
– Mark Twain (via infinite-paradox)
“The way to love someone is to lightly run your finger over that person’s soul...”
– Keith Miller (via c-ovet, creampuff) (via cold-winter-days)
“Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness.”
– Alejandro Jodorowsky (via likeafieldmouse)
“Strong and independent? I’m neither. I’m just being pushed along by reality,...”
– Haruki Murakami (via skip-the-youth)
“Naturally then, the mountains, the creatures, the entire non-human world is...”
– David Abram (via mirroir)
“I don’t know if anybody else has this feeling. When you’re walking down the...”
– Thom Yorke (via thenocturnals)
“You want a physicist to speak at your funeral. You want the physicist to talk to...”
– Aaron Freeman, “You Want a Physicist To Speak at Your Funeral” (via fleurishes)
“She was the third beer. Not the first one, which the throat receives with almost...”
– Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison (via 33113)
“I said never apologize for how you feel. No one can control how they feel. The...”
– Iain S. Thomas, Intentional Dissonance (via emptieds)
“why do you live in your body like you will be given another? as if it were...”
– warsan shire (via onlylivinggirlinla)
“Whenever someone tells me he dreamed, I wonder if he realizes that he has never...”
– Fernando Pessoa - A Factless Biography (via fuckyeahexistentialism)
