[propertiesofjoy]

rainer maria rilke, letters to a young poet

[neckkiss]

“The bravest thing you could ever do is let someone hurt you and still talk beautiful about them.”

— (hatin)

[sunsetquotes]

“I hope you get where you’re going, and be happy when you do.”

— Jack Kerouac

[sunsetquotes]

“So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.”

— Paulo Coelho

[sunsetquotes]

“I knew I did from that first moment we met. It was… not love at first sight exactly, but- familiarity. Like: oh, hello, it’s you. It’s going to be you.”

— Mhairi McFarlane

[sunsetquotes]

“These mountains that you are carrying, you were only supposed to climb.”

— Najwa Zebian

[sunsetquotes]

“I’m not afraid of dying. Pieces of me die all the time.”

— Sage Francis

[sunsetquotes]

“People change and forget to tell each other.”

— Lillian Hellman

[sunsetquotes]

“You have to meet people where they are, and sometimes you have to leave them there.”

— Iyanla Vanzant

[sunsetquotes]

“When you come back, you will not be you. And I may not be I.”

— E.M. Forster

[sunsetquotes]

“Maybe I’ll see you in another life, if this one wasn’t enough.”

— Florence + the Machine

[sunsetquotes]

“I promise I shall never give up, and that I’ll die yelling and laughing.”

— Jack Kerouac

[sunsetquotes]

“Thanks again for saving me. Someday, I’ll save you too.”

— Zelda Fitzgerald

[quotemadness]

I let it go. It’s like swimming against the current. It exhausts you. After a while, whoever you are, you just have to let go, and the river brings you home.

Joanne Harris (via quotemadness)

[quotemadness]

“Little by little, one travels far.”

— J.R.R. Tolkien

[quotemadness]

“I’d cut my soul into a million different pieces just to form a constellation to light your way home. I’d write love poems to the parts of yourself you can’t stand. I’d stand in the shadows of your heart and tell you I’m not afraid of your dark.”

— Andrea Gibson

[quotemadness]

“You get a strange feeling when you’re about to leave a place. Like you’ll not only miss the people you love but you’ll miss the person you are now at this time and this place, because you’ll never be this way ever again.”

— Azar Nafisi