[mournfulroses]

Alfred Stieglitz, from a letter to Georgia O’Keeffe featured in My Faraway One: Selected Letters of Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz: Volume One, 1915-1933

[greedyysoul]

I am uniquely wired to love the things that ruin me.

[mournfulroses]

Izumi Shikibu, from a poem featured in Japanese Poetic Diaries; The Diary of Izumi Shikibu

[thepersonalquotes]

[mournfulroses]

Albert Camus, from a letter to María Casares featured in Correspondance, 1944-1959

[paper-wounds]

[crimsolyn]

[mournfulroses]

Ōtomo no Sakanoue no Iratsume, from a poem titled "Like the sedge of sun-dominated Naniwa," featured in Japanese Women Poets: An Anthology

[mournfulroses]

Izumi Shikibu, from a poem featured in Japanese Poetic Diaries; The Diary of Izumi Shikibu

[perfectquote]

“Someone who truly loves you, sees what a mess you can be, how moody you can get, and how hard you can be to handle, but still wants you.”

— Unknown

[thoughtkick]

“Some people go through life searching and never find their soul mates. They never do. You and I did, we just happened to have them for a shorter period of time than we hoped for. It’s sad, but it’s life.”

— Cecelia Ahern, P.S. I Love You

[thoughtkick]

“Whatever you’re meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.”

— Doris Lessing

[mournfulroses]

Julia de Burgos, from Song of the Simple Truth: Poems of Julia de Burgos; "Return To Me,"

[perfectfeelings]

“Don’t chase people. Be yourself, do your own thing, and love people. The right people - the ones who really belong in your life - will come to you, and stay.”

— Unknown

[thememedaddy]

[pyf-ms]

[perfectquote]

“There will come a day when you’ll be so grateful that you never gave up.”

— Unknown