Wisdom's Diary

[thequotejournals]

Those years weren’t lost. They simply weren’t the way I’d planned them.

Kurt Vonnegut (via wordsnquotes)

[wordsnquotes]

…It’s all too much and not enough at the same time.

Jack Kerouac (via wordsnquotes)

[littlereaderhood-blog]

Now, remember, when things look bad and it looks like you're not gonna make it, then you gotta get mean. I mean plumb, mad-dog mean. Cause if you lose your head and you give up then you neither live nor win. That's just the way it is.

Josey Wales, The Outlaw Josey Wales

[littlereaderhood-blog]

Don't piss down my back and tell me it's raining.

Fletcher, The Outlaw Josey Wales

[littlereaderhood-blog]

It’s the oldest story in the world. One day you’re 17 and planning for someday. And then quietly and without you ever really noticing, someday is today. And then someday is yesterday. And this is your life.

Nathan, One Tree Hill

[littlereaderhood-blog]

A dream is an answer to a question we haven't learned how to ask.

Fox Mulder, The X-Files

[littlereaderhood-blog]

“Men and cars. Never got it. Never will.” -Kitty Forman

[littlereaderhood-blog]

“I’m not doing anything else for men today.”

-Kitty Forman

[littlereaderhood-blog]

Quotes

“There was a piercing agony of misery in her heart.”

-Nella Larsen, Passing 

[quotemadness]

I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.

Jack Kerouac (via quotemadness)

[quotemadness]

I like to think the world wasn’t ready for me, but maybe the truth is that I wasn’t ready for the world. I’ve always arrived too late for my life.

Nicole Krauss (via quotemadness)

[wnq-writers]

There is a difference between someone who has a fire behind their eyes and someone, who is on fire.

sweatersandlazydays (via wordsnquotes)

[quotemadness]

Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

Oscar Wilde (via quotemadness)

[wordsnquotes]

And maybe what growing up really means is knowing that you don’t have to be just a character, going whichever way the story says. It’s knowing you could be the author instead.

Ava Dellaira, Love Letters to the Dead (via wordsnquotes)

[fyp-psychology]

The belief that one’s own view of reality is the only reality is the most dangerous of all delusions.

Paul Watzlawick (via fyp-psychology)

[fy-perspectives]

A book can teach you, a conversation can assure you, a poem can seduce you, a genius can inspire you but only you can save yourself.

Anthony Anaxagorou (via fy-perspectives)

[fyp-philosophy]

Truth is the cry of all, but the game of few.

George Berkeley  (via fyp-philosophy)