KAL-EL : SON OF STARS

"I feel like I live in a world made of cardboard, always taking constant care not to break something, to break someone. Never allowing myself to lose control even for a moment, or someone could die." - Superman

[ultraheroin]

— forgive me, leonard peacock, matthew quick

[mildmanneredace]

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[ofhotheads-blog]

                         Don’t you see?                        I spend so much time                         fighting monsters                           because I’m so                                scared of                           becoming one.

[quotemadness]

I guess each of us, at some time, finds one person with whom we are compelled toward absolute honesty, one person whose good opinion of us becomes a substitute for the broader opinion of the world.

Glen Cook (via quotemadness)

[quotemadness]

Empathy is a special way of coming to know another and ourself, a kind of attuning and understanding. When empathy is extended, it satisfies our needs and wish for intimacy, it rescues us from our feelings of aloneness.

Carl Rogers (via quotemadness)

[quotemadness]

A man is only as good as what he loves.

Saul Bellow (via quotemadness)

[quotemadness]

I thought maybe a day was coming when I’d stop constantly worrying about how to live. Maybe at some point I’d just start living, no questions asked.

John Corey Whaley (via quotemadness)

[quotemadness]

I don’t like to get angry. It doesn’t make me feel good. It is very human, but it’s also a loss of control, and I like to have that kind of control.

Steve Carell (via quotemadness)

[shewhomuses]

                                                      Deep down, you know                                                   you weren’t built for fighting,                                                       but that doesn’t mean                                                     you’re not prepared to try.

                                                       What they don’t know                                                       is your real advantage;                                                    When you live for someone,                                                      you’re ᴘʀᴇᴘᴀʀᴇᴅ to ᴅɪᴇ.

[quotemadness]

Not that I want to be a god or a hero. Just to change into a tree, grow for ages, not hurt anyone.

Czesław Miłosz (via quotemadness)

[quotemadness]

We’re all human, aren’t we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving.

J.K. Rowling (via quotemadness)

[quoted-books]

It was a pretty good strategy for most social situations: show up, fall back, let somebody else break the ice and take the spotlight. Somebody else always would. Extroverts were nothing if not dependable.

Rainbow Rowell, Kindred Spirits 

Submitted by: perletwo!

(via quoted-books)

[quotemadness]

What I’ve come to learn is that the world is never saved in grand messianic gestures, but in the simple accumulation of gentle, soft, almost invisible acts of compassion.

Chris Abani (via quotemadness)

[quotemadness]

If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky (via quotemadness)

[ofhotheads-blog]

                                                                  W A R N I N G :                                          do NOT mistake my goodness for weakness                                              (it’ll be the last mistake you ever make)

[quotemadness]

There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a duty to take this risk, to love and feel without defense or reserve.

William S. Burroughs (via quotemadness)

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