quo·ta·tion

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. main

[coral]

Having a low opinion of yourself is not ‘modesty.’ It’s self-destruction. Holding your uniqueness in high regard is not ‘egotism.’ It’s a necessary precondition to happiness and success.

Bobbe Sommer (via feellng)

[lasmaracuyas]

[astound]

Forgive others not because they deserve forgiveness, but because you deserve peace.

Jonathan Lockwood Huie (via astound)

[onlinecounsellingcollege]

The sign of intelligence is that you are constantly wondering. Idiots are always dead sure about every damn thing they are doing in their life.

(via icy-brunette)

[wordsnquotes]

It sucks that we miss people like that. You think you’ve accepted that someone is out of your life, that you’ve grieved and it’s over, and then bam. One little thing, and you feel like you’ve lost that person all over again.

Rachel Hawkins, Demonglass (via wordsnquotes)

[aurelle]

The capacity to be alone is the capacity to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it is not. It is an existential truth: only those people who are capable of being alone are capable of love, of sharing, of going into the deepest core of the other person—without possessing the other, without becoming dependent on the other, without reducing the other to a thing, and without becoming addicted to the other.

Osho (via aurelle)

[booksqouted]

And in the end, we were all just humans drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness.

F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (via booksqouted)

[stoccato]

You’re the only girl I’ve seen for a long time that actually did look like something blooming.

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night (via stoccato)

[mysharona1987]

That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you’re not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.

F. Scott Fitzgerald. (via mysharona1987)

[mysharona1987]

[promptly-written]

Writer’s aren’t exactly people. They’re a whole bunch of people trying to be one person.

F. Scott Fitzgerald (via promptly-written)

[bibliophilebunny]

“He looked at her the way all women want to be looked at by a man.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (via bibliophilebunny)

[deadmosquitoo]

[bloomai]

[astrasperas]

For a star to be born, there is one thing that must happen: a gaseous nebula must collapse. So collapse. Crumble.This is not your destruction. This is your birth.

n.t. (via tagharyen)

[a-quiet-old-soul]

He may love you. He probably does. He probably thinks about you all the time. But that isn’t what matters. What matters is what he’s doing about it, and what he’s doing about it is nothing. And if he’s doing nothing, you most certainly shouldn’t do anything. You need someone who goes out of their way to make it obvious that they want you in their life.

(via deltasfinest)

[beginagainkindly-deactivated201]

I am no expert on love, But I have a few suggestions to keeping your love alive. 1- Don’t fall asleep angry. But if you do, wake up in the middle of the night and hold her as close as you can. 2- Laugh during sex, especially if you bump heads. If you aren’t laughing, you’re with the wrong person. 3- If you don’t feel comfortable dancing naked with your partner and showing them your four chins when you laugh, you’re doing it wrong. 4- Romance isn’t for everyone, but a post-it note in their lunchbox telling them they’re the best will never go amiss. 5- Don’t cling to them at parties. Dance with friends and spend time with acquaintances, but wink at each other across the room. 6- Keep everything 50/50, or you will fall out of balance. 7- Stop comparing your relationship to others- you are you, don’t try to be someone else. 8- Be kind. Give them space when they need it, but be their home when they come back. 9- Be proud to love them. 10- Support them through whatever they do in life, even if it’s a stupid decision. People need to make their own mistakes, but be there if it falls apart, and never say ‘I told you so’. And most of all, love with your whole heart, or don’t love at all.

FRS (via 611am)