Iridescence

Just a cool word.

[thequotejournals]

What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.

Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath. (via wordsnquotes)

[thequotejournals]

When you have a bad day, a really bad day, try and treat the world better than it treated you.

Patrick Stump (via wordsnquotes)

[fyp-psychology]

Ask yourself this question: ‘Will this matter a year from now?’

Richard Carlson (via wordsnquotes)

[wordsnquotes]

Home is not where you live but where they understand you.

Christian Morgenstern (via wordsnquotes)

[wnq-music]

Have you ever been alone in a crowded room?

Jack’s Mannequin, “Dark Blue” (via wnq-music)

Often

[thelovejournals]

One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.

Khalil Gibran (via thelovejournals)

[wordsnquotes]

It is an easy mistake to think that non-talkers are non-feelers.

Wallace Stegner, Angle of Repose (via wordsnquotes)

[wordsnquotes]

…Better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.

Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner  (via wordsnquotes)

[thequotejournals]

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon - instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today.

Dale Carnegie (via thequotejournals)

[wnq-writers]

We accept the love we think we deserve so maybe that’s why I don’t accept any.

wildflowerrs  (via wordsnquotes)

[wordsnquotes]

The scariest thing is when people look up to you but you know the truth about your own self.

Muhammad ibn Adam al-Kawthari (via wordsnquotes)

[thequotejournals]

The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.

Lao Tzu  (via thequotejournals)

[wnq-writers]

Haven’t you learned that girls like me will destroy you. Just as we destroy ourselves. We love to hard and care to deeply to be tethered down. We are the ones who spend hours in museums, lost in the echoes of ages gone by. We are the ones wishing for knights and kings and beautiful dresses. We wish to be crowned a queen of love and beauty We are the ones with ink-stained hands and bruised thighs. We are wild and we run forever, chasing after glory, chasing after fame and fortune. We were told we could be everything so that’s what we seek. We are the ones who smile strangers, who talk to nearly everyone we meet. We are kind and generous and thoughtful but our kindness masks the belief that we will never be enough. We want to make the world a better place but we only know how to do that by scattering pieces of ourselves. We are the girls in stories you dream to save. But this, this is reality and the world is a dragon and the knights have faded

So we are bleeding while trying to save ourselves by Abby S  (via wordsnquotes)

[thelovejournals]

Lately I’ve been thinking about who I want to love, and how I want to love, and why I want to love the way I want to love, and what I need to learn to love that way, and who I need to become to become the kind of love I want to be…and when I break it all down, when I whittle it into a single breath, it essentially comes out like this: Before I die, I want to be somebody’s favorite hiding place, the place they can put everything they know they need to survive, every secret, every solitude, every nervous prayer, and be absolutely certain I will keep it safe. I will keep it safe.

Andrea Gibson (via thelovejournals)

[wordsnquotes]

It’s strange how your childhood sort of feels like forever. Then suddenly you’re sixteen and the world becomes an hourglass and you’re watching the sand pile up at the wrong end. And you’re thinking of how when you were just a kid, your heartbeat was like a kick drum at a rock show, and now it’s just a time bomb ticking out. And it’s sad. And you want to forget about dying. But mostly you just want to forget about saying goodbye.

Beau Taplin (via wordsnquotes)

[thelovejournals]

You won’t do our things with another girl, or say the same things, will you?

Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms  (via thelovejournals)

[wordsnquotes]

Let’s not talk about how I am. It’s a subject I know too much about to want to think about anymore.

Ernest Hemingway, Be Way You’ll Never (via wordsnquotes)