The Ocean Cafe

Welcome to my imaginary cafe, the one that exists in my mind, but will be real one day.

[shepraises]

“God, I want to write something that matters, words that stick to the roof of someone’s mouth when they’re crying at 3 a.m. words that are engrained on skin for eternity. I want to write something that changes the way someone sees the world around them, words that encourage someone to stay and weather the storm.”

— a.k.

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

“I like to imagine that somewhere a girl takes revenge for me. She closes her eyes and dreams. She unfolds. She is insignificant and larger than life.”

— Odysseus Elytis, from Open Papers: Selected Essays; “The Girls,”

[onlinecounsellingcollege]

Reasons Why I Like to be Alone

1. I can think my own thoughts.

2. I can listen to my heart.

3. There’s no need to fit in with, or to please, other people.

4. I can be at peace with my authentic self.

5. I can focus my thinking and attention on what matters.

6. I can invest my time on my own priorities.

7. I am free of the pressures that can sap my energy.

[onlinecounsellingcollege]

“Don’t sit and wait. Get out there. Feel life.”

— Rumi

[onlinecounsellingcollege]

“When you stop chasing the wrong things, you give the right things a chance to catch you.”

— Unknown

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

“Sometimes it can be a good thing—to dream.”

— Fyodor Dostoevsky. tr. by Alan Myers, from “White Nights,” wr. c.1848

[damian-vanbrussel]

young monk myanmar

[etherayy]

That looks very peaceful. I wonder what book he is reading?

~@etherayy

[damian-vanbrussel]

bookstore cat

[etherayy]

Omg that is so cute haha 💕

[purplebuddhaquotes]

““It’s fascinating, really, when you think about it. How a person can slip into a new life as one would a new pair of shoes. At first there’s a keen awareness of the fit: a stiffness at the heel, the binding of the width, the curve pressed to the arch. But with time and enough steps, the feel becomes so natural you almost forget you’re wearing them at all.””

—

[purplebuddhaquotes]

““The classroom was a jail of other people’s interests. The library was open, unending, free.””

—

[kiwiicaspian]

Famous Last Words of Different Kinds of Artist

Vincent Van Gogh: “I shall never get rid of this depression.”

Ludwig van Beethoven: “Too bad, too bad! It’s too late!”

William Shakespeare: “I commend my soul into the hands of God my Creator, hoping and assuredly believing, through the only merits of Jesus Christ my Savior, to be made partaker of life everlasting; and my body to the earth, whereof it was made.”

Charlie Chaplin: “Why not? It belongs to him.”

Jane Austen: “I want nothing but death.”

Leonardo Da Vinci: “I have offended God and mankind because my work did not reach the quality it should have.”

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: “The taste of death is upon my lips… I feel something that is not of this earth.”

Alfred Hitchcock: “One never knows the ending. One has to die to know exactly what happens after death, although Catholics have their hopes.”

Johann Sebastian Bach: “Don’t cry for me, for I got where music is born”

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[kiwiicaspian]

Vincent Van Gogh Quotes for the Soul

I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.

Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.

The best way to know God is to love many things.

I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.

I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.

[etherayy]

This is so beautiful.

~@etherayy

[hollys-writeblr]

Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don’t see any.

- Orson Scott

[etherayy]

I hope to train myself to see more. ✍️

[kiwiicaspian]

Rain

Do you know what it feels like to be too socially awkward to tell a bus driver where your stop is? Because I sure do.

I had stayed after school for a club, not thinking much of it. Until I realized, there was a substitute driver. Our normal bus driver was…wild. He said strange things like: “Trump’s gonna deport you” or “I’m not going straight I’m going gay”. Now, this bus driver was different. She was crabby and old like the ones in cartoons and memes.

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[etherayy]

I love listening and being in the rain. It has a very cleansing (and like you said, therapeutic) feeling.

P.s. I've read some of your posts and I really like them. I'd love to be friends!

~@etherayy

[odysseyi]

“The labours I endured were no longer to be alleviated by the bright sun or gentle breezes of spring; all joy was but a mockery which insulted my desolate state and made me feel more painfully that I was not made for the enjoyment of pleasure.” ― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus

[poemswords]

[pens-swords-stuff]

Don’t let anyone tell you that writing is easy.

People oftentimes think that anyone can be a good writer because it’s just words. People might devalue writing and say that you should be doing something better and more lucrative with your time.

Writing takes effort, writing takes skill, writing takes discipline and writing takes practice.

It’s staying up until 6 in the morning because you want to get all of your thoughts down before you forget them. It’s tearing your hair out because you’re stuck, and you don’t know how to continue on. It’s rereading your writing and hating the words you’ve written because they sound so stilted and boring.

Writers, what you are doing now is an impressive thing. You’re attempting to create an entire world from scratch, create compelling characters that will capture the hearts of readers, trying to explain that brilliant scene in words when you can visualize it so clearly in your mind.

It can be a really difficult and daunting task, but you’re doing it and you’re doing it well. It’s not worthless, it’s not meaningless, and it has a lot of value. 

Writing is the joy of your characters coming to life. It’s the rush that you get when you finally get to that one scene you’ve been dying to write. It’s feeling like you want to cry when someone tells you that they loved what you wrote. It’s that sense of accomplishment you get when you can look back at what you’ve written and say “wow… I actually did this.” It’s the sense of fulfillment you get when you’ve had a productive day. It’s those long days of just thinking about how your story is going to surprise you, and planning ahead 20 novels in advance because you love your writing and your story. It’s the joy of creating, the fruits of your labor, and the excitement of sharing it with other people who will love it just as much as you do.

Nothing will ever take that away from you. Let yourself be proud of being a writer. Give yourself a pat on your back and say “Hey you know what? I love writing, and I’m doing great.” Because you are. You’re doing something really hard, and you’re doing it well.

Writing is an art that can touch people’s hearts, and if that’s not magical I don’t know what is.