Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness

A blog of poems, quotes, and occasional lyrics created by Ela "Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them. ”Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.” - Nathaniel Hawthorne

[ballet-ballet-ballet-blog]

[littlemessenger]

Her lines are just incredible!

[littlemessenger]

If I feel aversion toward someone, if I find myself ignoring or turning away from someone in a group, I am probably avoiding within myself what this person represents that is true about me.

Hugh Prather

[littlemessenger]

The criticism the hurts the most is the one that echoes my own self-condemnation.

Hugh Prather

[littlemessenger]

Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

[littlemessenger]

One does not die from pain unless one chooses to.

Wakako Yamauchi

[misswallflower]

I may never be happy, but tonight I am content. Nothing more than an empty house, the warm hazy weariness from a day spent setting strawberry runners in the sun, a glass of cool sweet milk, and a shallow dish of blueberries bathed in cream. When one is so tired at the end of a day one must sleep, and at the next dawn there are more strawberry runners to set, and so one goes on living, near the earth. At times like this I’d call myself a fool to ask for more…

Sylvia Plath (via misswallflower)

[nirvikalpa-deactivated20130416]

You don’t need to change yourself; you only need to love yourself. Your Higher Self is leading you to all the things you need to do to grow spiritually. It is always there, guiding and loving you. You have all the answers within you. Spiritual growth is an individual path. It is important to follow your own inner wisdom about what to do and when to do it. Realize that whatever you are doing right now is perfect for you.

Orin   (via embracethevision)

[invisible]

[rosettes]

If you love someone, let them know. If you don’t, let them go.

Unknown (via seabois)

[bookmania]

Time that withers you will wither me. We will fall like ripe fruit and roll down the grass together. Dear friend, let me lie beside you watching the clouds until the earth covers us and we are gone.

Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body (via bookmania)

[misswallflower]

“In the dark I rest, unready for the light which dawns day after day, eager to be shared. Black silk, shelter me. I need more of the night before I open eyes and heart to illumination. I must still grow in the dark like a root not ready, not ready at all.”

― Denise Levertov

[keep-calmer-blog]

‎So avoid using the word ‘very’ because it’s lazy. A man is not very tired, he is exhausted. Don’t use very sad, use morose. Language was invented for one reason, boys - to woo women - and, in that endeavor, laziness will not do.

Dead Poets Society, 1989  (via skinandboneskeleton)

[littlemessenger]

True Happiness by Gary Bolduc

The smile across her face is reflected in her eyes This happiness she has, it’s not a lie If she could, she would scream and jump for joy But this happiness isn’t coming from a toy Her cheeks hurt for smiling so long I think she might start to sing a song A song about true happiness A feeling that she found in her heart This happiness, she wants everyone to be apart of This happiness is never to be taken away She wants it so badly to stay For all her life she’s been sad and lonely But she finally found a cure So please don’t ruin it for her.

[philphys-deactivated20120616]

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Oscar Wilde (via philphys)

[hashashi-deactivated20130718]

“One must have chaos within oneself if one is to be a dancing star.”

Friedrich Nietzsche (via qaneh-bosem)

[decrepito-deactivated20160813]

I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.

Emily Brontë (via decrepito)

[reluctantbuddha]

We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (via reluctantbuddha)