quotes

[hollyarabella]

[quotebites]

“My father used to say, ‘Don’t Raise your voice. Improve your argument’.”

— Archbishop Desmond Tutu

[naturaekos]

Losing is a learning experience. It teaches you humility. It teaches you to work harder. It’s also a powerful motivator.

Yogi Berra (via naturaekos)

[slanting-deactivated20161226]

Why can’t I try on different lives, like dresses, to see which one fits best?

Sylvia Plath (via slanting)

[fuckyeahliteraryquotes]

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

Norwegian Wood, Haruki Murakami

[all-too-well]

I was 18 when I wrote that,” she reminds me. “That’s the age you are when you think someone can actually take your boyfriend. Then you grow up and realise no one takes someone from you if they don’t want to leave.

Taylor talking about Better Than Revenge (The Guardian, August 2014) (x)

(via timeerasingyou)

[fairytaleglitch47-deactivated20]

And a mistake repeated more than once is a decision.

Paulo Coelho  (via seulray)

[cocvino]

[starlate-deactivated20150129]

Not everyone you lose is a loss.

starlate (via starlate)

[zenpencils]

SYLVIA PLATH ‘The fig tree’

[rabbitinthemoon-blog]

A burnt child loves the fire.

Oscar Wilde (via peachiegrl)

[boleynmusic]

You can ask the universe for all the signs you want, but ultimately, we see what we want to see when we’re ready to see it.

Unknown (via disagreed)

[psych-facts]

Someone once told me that human beings have three dimensions: how you see yourself, how others see you, and how you want others to see you. The closer the distance between the three dimensions, the more at peace you are and the more stable you become.

Marwa Rakha (The Poison Tree)

[larmoyante]

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

[midnightowner]

Grown-ups like numbers. When you tell them about a new friend, they never ask questions about what really matters. They never ask: ‘What does his voice sound like?’ ‘What games does he like best?’ ‘Does he collect butterflies?’ They ask: ‘How old is he?’ ‘How many brothers does he have?’ ‘How much does he weigh?’ ‘How much money does he have?’ Only then do they think they know him. If you tell grown-ups, ‘I saw a beautiful red brick house, with geraniums at the windows and doves at the roof…,’ they won’t be able to imagine such a house. You have to tell them, ‘I saw a house worth a thousand francs.’ Then they exclaim, ‘What a pretty house!’

The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry  (via floriental)

[brig-124]

My 3rd grade teacher once told me to read the books that are the the most damaged on the outside because you can tell by the damage its been read by a lot of people, and there’s usually a great story on the inside. This advice hasn’t failed me yet.

[nuclearharvest]

For what it’s worth: it’s never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you’re proud of, and if you find you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start over again.

F. Scott Fitzgerald (via bl-ossomed)