hi there, i'm olivia.

I'm still learning.

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Vintage Blog

[theadventurer]

Since it is so likely that children will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage.

C. S. Lewis (via awelltraveledwoman)

[purplebuddhaproject]

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Worship,” The Conduct of Life, 1860 (via purplebuddhaproject)

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Tamara Lichtenstein

[watchoutforintellect]

I have so much I want to say, so many stories, images, proverbs, etc. But the words aren’t good enough, the wrong ones kiss me. Sometimes I fly like an eagle but with the wings of a wren.

Anne Sexton, from “Words” featured in The Complete Poems (via watchoutforintellect)

[wnq-writers]

The prettier the garden, the dirtier the hands of the gardener.

B. E. Barnes, Put in work. Tend yourself. (via fahdes)

[wnq-anonymous]

I’m not sure which is worse: intense feeling, or the absence of it.

Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin (via wordsnquotes)

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Eye studies

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Sarah Hart

[bookshavepores]

You read something which you thought only happened to you, and you discover that it happened 100 years ago to Dostoyevsky. This is a very great liberation for the suffering, struggling person, who always thinks that he is alone. This is why art is important. Art would not be important if life were not important, and life is important.

James Baldwin, Conversations with James Baldwin  (via herkindoftea)

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tenderness is very important

[goodreadss]

The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.

Mother Teresa (via breanna-lynn)

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There’s a woman I want to be and until I reach that point, I have work to do.

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pretty details at urban outfitters 🌱🌿 trying to make my room look like this slowly but surely!