Dalliance

Whether the excerpts are written by an author or they are written by myself, every passage written or reblogged has touched my heart somehow, either by placing my thoughts and experiences into words, or by inspiring me to strive every single day to better my heart and soul.

[thelovejournals]

It’s better to live like a flame, to know a [person] and love [them] even if [they] can’t be yours, then never to love at all.

Eloisa James (via thelovejournals)

[dalliancemydarling]

I just want someone to choose me. Just once.

[wordsnquotes]

Just let go. Let go of how you thought your life should be, and embrace the life that is trying to work its way into your consciousness.

Caroline Myss (via wordsnquotes)

[wordsnquotes]

Because now I could only be indifferent; I had no emotions left to lend.

Julian Barnes (via effervescent-ingenue)

[wordsnquotes]

She wasn’t afraid of difficulties; what frightened her was being forced to choose one particular path. Choosing a path meant having to miss out on others. She had a whole life to live and she was always thinking that, in future, she might regret the choices she made now. ‘I’m afraid of committing myself,’ she thought to herself. She wanted to follow all possible paths and so ended up following none.

Paulo Coelho, Brida (via wordsnquotes)

[artsnquotes]

The most important thing to develop in human beings is a sense of love, and an understanding of unconditional love. I’m not talking about the love towards a specific person, but love in a general sense; for life, for the planet, for purely existing.

Marina Abramović  (via wordsnquotes)

[creatingnikki]

I want

Every minute of every day, I want to do something more than breathing and taking up space.

I want to see others smile and I want to smile at the warm sunshine.

I want to write words that make people feel, and want to read words that do the same for me.

I want to observe without judging and speak without insulting.

I want to love without expectations and be loved genuinely without any hesitation.

I want to see the kids around me grow up to be great individuals and see the adults become old with not more than a few regrets but be greatly content.

I want to see everything beautiful without a screen in between and say things I truly mean with speech.

I want to see people be inspired and not green with envy and I want to be an example everytime I witness brilliance and beauty.

I want a lot more but what I want above everything else is to do and not just want to do.

[wordsnquotes]

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art…. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.

C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves (via wordsnquotes)

[wordsnquotes]

I close my eyes and I let my body shut itself down and I let my mind wander. It wanders to a familiar place. A place I don’t talk about or acknowledge exists. A place where there is only me.

James Frey, A Million Little Pieces  (via wordsnquotes)

[wnq-anonymous]

But I believe good things happen every day. I believe good things happen even when bad things happen. And I believe on a happy day like today, we can still feel a little sad. And that’s life, isn’t it?

Gabrielle Zevin, Elsewhere  (via wordsnquotes)

[wordsnquotes]

Because not having a clue who you are hurts way too much. And one thing I did know for sure: I was tired of hurting.

Jennifer Brown, The Hate List (via wordsnquotes)

[wordsnquotes]

What’s the point in worrying about the future? Who says there will even be a future? What happens if you die tomorrow and all you ever did was sit in math classes and play the clarinet and moan about your family? What good is the future to you then?

Dawn O'Porter, Paper Aeroplanes (via wordsnquotes)

[wordsnquotes]

She felt as if she had been on the outside of happiness her whole life.

Kate Atkinson, A God In Ruins (via wordsnquotes)

[wordsnquotes]

You’re easy to read…but the whole book of you is complicated.

Amy Engel, The Book of Ivy (via wordsnquotes)

[wnq-music]

A lot of people who are artists don’t understand it themselves. Especially the young ones. They feel different, but they don’t know what it is. They feel more. Everything hurts. Everything. They’re super sensitive. They see things that other people don’t see.

Rick Rubin (via wnq-music)

[wordsnquotes]

I loved being in my own head so much, it was getting harder and harder being with other people.

Marian Keyes, Anybody Out There? (via wordsnquotes)

[wordsnquotes]

The twenties are as frenetic a decade as the teens. You have a voice inside your head repeating I want, I want, I want, but you don’t know what you want or how to get it. You hardly know who you are. You go on instinct. And your instinct mostly pushes you toward adventures you won’t grasp until you look back on them. Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forward, some sage once said.

Erica Jong, Fear of Flying (via wordsnquotes)