Words

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[misswallflower]

It’s not just other people we need to forgive.. We also need to forgive ourselves. For all the things we didn’t do. All the things we should have done.

Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie (via misswallflower)

[coral]

When I was little, I was out riding my brand-new blue bicycle when I decided to see how far I could keep going without looking back even once. I could feel with my back how my neighborhood was receding, further and further away… but I kept pedaling with all my might, my mind almost going blank. All I could hear was the sound of my own heart, thumping wildly in my ears. Even now, I remember it sometimes. What exactly was I trying to do that day? What was it that I wanted to prove? It’s no good. My mind just keeps fogging over. I have this irritating sound stuck in my head. What is it? This sound… Ohh… I know what it is. This is… the sound of emptiness.

Chica Umino (via feellng)

[wordsnquotes]

I’m so far from everything. From normality. From light. From what I want to be.

Fowles, John. The Collector. (via wordsnquotes)

[wordsnquotes]

I love you-I do-but I am afraid of making that love too important. Because you’re always going to leave me…We can’t deny it. You’re always going to leave.

Levithan, David. Every Day. (via wordsnquotes)

[observando]

Anything that doesn’t take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.

Cormac McCarthy (via observando)

[coral]

We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.

Voltaire (via feellng)

[wordsnquotes]

The broken heart. You think you will die, but you just keep living, day after day after terrible day.

Dickens, Charles. Great Expectations. (via wordsnquotes)

[observando]

But spending your life concentrating on death is like watching a whole movie and thinking only about the credits that are going to roll at the end. It’s a mistake of emphasis.

Nicholson Baker, The Anthologist (via observando)

[coral]

Aren’t you, like me, hoping that some person, thing, or event will come along to give you that final feeling of inner well-being you desire? Don’t you often hope: ‘May this book, idea, course, trip, job, country or relationship fulfill my deepest desire.’ But as long as you are waiting for that mysterious moment you will go on running helter-skelter, always anxious and restless, always lustful and angry, never fully satisfied. You know that this is the compulsiveness that keeps us going and busy, but at the same time makes us wonder whether we are getting anywhere in the long run. This is the way to spiritual exhaustion and burn-out. This is the way to spiritual death.

Henri J.M. Nouwen, Life of the Beloved: Spiritual Living in a Secular World (via feellng)

[wordsnquotes]

He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster. And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will also gaze into thee.

Nietzsche, Friedrich. Beyond Good and Evil.  (via wordsnquotes)

[rabbitinthemoon-blog]

I’ve had so many knives stuck into me, when they hand me a flower I can’t quite make out what it is. It takes time.

Charles Bukowski (via stellablu)

If people had really stuck a ton of knives into Charles Bukowski, the world would be better off.

(via donaldfood)

[wewerecooluntilwewerent-deactiv]

I don’t need to be rich or have a fancy home. I just want to go to sleep at night knowing my labor had heart, I’ve loved fiercely and lived close enough to the edge that I can see the waves kiss the rocks.

Dave Buchanan (via redandblackattack)

[hauntedteacakes]

“I woke to the smell of toast and eggs drifting through a sun-dappled curtain and I thought how lucky I am to be alive in a world of sun-dappled anything.”

Charlotte Charles, Pushing Daisies  (via liketheopensea)

[cnnxt]

An honorable human relationship — that is, one in which two people have the right to use the word “love” — is a process, delicate, violent, often terrifying to both persons involved, a process of refining the truths they can tell each other. It is important to do this because it breaks down human self-delusion and isolation. It is important to do this because in doing so we do justice to our own complexity. It is important to do this because we can count on so few people to go that hard way with us.

Adrienne Rich (via eloquence)

[avdunstar-blog]

I envy you. Every moment You can leave me. I cannot leave myself.

Anna Świrszczyńska (via cesarelucrezia)

[the-destinationn]

The highest reward for a person’s toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.

John Ruskin (via the-destinationn)

[cnnxt]

So you must not be frightened if a sadness rises up before you larger than any you have ever seen; if a restiveness, like light and cloudshadows, passes over your hands and over all you do. You must think that something is happening with you, that life has not forgotten you, that it holds you in its hand; it will not let you fall.

Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young poet (via eloquence)