be as you wish to seem

some things i like

[literatureandfairytales]

…and then a blank, blind, moist aquamarine blaze shivered and stared as if a spatter of sun and sea had got between your own eyelids.

Vladimir Nabokov, Pnin (via literatureandfairytales)

[quotemadness]

Observe your behavior every hour and every minute of the day until you radiate purity.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky (via quotemadness)

[quotemadness]

Life is too short to waste it fulfilling others’ dreams.

Oscar Wilde (via quotemadness)

[quotemadness]

You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.

John Steinbeck (via quotemadness)

[quotemadness]

Even if you are alone you wage war with yourself.

Dejan Stojanovic (via quotemadness)

[wordsnquotes]

Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.

José Saramago, Blindness 

[saltandsteel]

Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person’s ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.

C.S. Lewis 

[emmaconstance]

The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.

F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

[philosophybits]

Men do not stumble over mountains, but over molehills.

Confucius (via philosophybits)

[model-hommes]

[sauvenne]

[philosophybits]

A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.

Albert Einstein (via philosophybits)

[orwell]

[vogue-at-heart]

[evokesart]

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Pablo Picasso (via artimportant)

[booksqouted]

People don’t want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messes cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown.

Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor (via booksqouted)

[mysharona1987]

It was amazing how many people spent their whole lives in places where they never intended to stay.

Terry Pratchett, The Color of Magic (via mysharona1987)