words for reflection

"Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting."

[sad-plath]

Everyone, at some point in their lives, wakes up in the middle of the night with the feeling that they are all alone in the world, and that nobody loves them now and that nobody will ever love them, and that they will never have a decent night’s sleep again and will spend their lives wandering blearily around a loveless landscape, hoping desperately that their circumstances will improve, but suspecting, in their heart of hearts, that they will remain unloved forever. The best thing to do in these circumstances is to wake somebody else up, so that they can feel this way, too.

Lemony Snicket (via sad-plath)

[quotecollectionproject]

Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.

Richard Feynman (via quotecollectionproject)

[unapologetically-human]

Stop minimizing and discounting your feelings. You have every right to feel the way you do. Your feelings may not always be logical, but they are always valid. Because if you feel something, then you feel it and it’s real to you. It’s not something you can ignore or wish away. It’s there, gnawing at you, tugging at your core, and in order to find peace, you have to give yourself permission to feel whatever it is you feel. You have to let go of what you’ve been told you “should” or “shouldn’t” feel. You have to drown out the voices of people who try to shame you into silence. You have to listen to the sound of your own breathing and honor the truth inside you. Because despite what you may believe, you don’t need anyone’s validation or approval to feel what you feel. Your feelings are inherently right and true. They’re important and they matter — you matter — and it is more than okay to feel what you feel. Don’t let anyone, including yourself, convince you otherwise.

Daniell Koepke (via indemne)

[takemetothemtn-deactivated20130]

The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.

Ernest Hemingway  (via takemetothemtns)

[psych-facts]

There is a kind of crying I hope you have not experienced, and it is not just crying about something terrible that has happened, but a crying for all of the terrible things that have happened, not just to you but to everyone you know and to everyone you don’t know and even the people you don’t want to know, a crying that cannot be diluted by a brave deed or a kind word, but only by someone holding you as your shoulders shake and your tears run down your face.

Lemony Snicket (via psych-facts)

[onlinecounsellingcollege]

I used to think the worst thing in life was to end up all alone. It’s not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel all alone.

Robin Williams (via onlinecounsellingcollege)

[mysticspectrum]

Great men are forged in fire. It is the privilege of lesser men to light the flame.

The War Doctor (via mysticspectrum)

[everydayquotations]

I am just a speck of dust inside a giant's eye.

Kimya Dawson I Like Giants

[historical-nonfiction]

I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (via historical-nonfiction)

[everydayquotations]

If you look for the light, you can often find it. If you look for the dark, it is all you will ever see.

Uncle Iroh

[lazyyogi]

Nobody is superior, nobody is inferior, but nobody is equal either. People are simply unique, incomparable.

Osho (via quotestuff)

[everydayquotations]

Why can't we get all the people together in the world that we really like and then just stay together? I guess that wouldn't work. Someone would leave. Someone always leaves. Then we would have to say good-bye. I hate good-byes. I know what I need. I need more hellos.

Charles Schulz

[rashelle-ramirez]

Either things happen for a reason, or they happen for no reason at all. Either one’s life is a thread in a glorious tapestry or humanity is just a hopelessly tangled knot

Neal Shusterman (via rashelle-ramirez)

[hellanne]

You are not weak just because your heart feels so heavy.

Andrea Gibson (via hellanne)

[everydayquotations]

It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God - but to create him.

Arthur C. Clarke

[everydayquotations]

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

Joseph Conrad

[everydayquotations]

Nothing is so common as the wish to be remarkable.

William Shakespeare