SAS

Confessional poet

[deathandmysticism]

Nebulosities of the Pleiades, The call of the stars, 1919

[infpisme]

[imaginemirage]

"You are a church of broken glass and hallelujahs. You are haunted like every other holy thing. What tried to destroy you didn't have the strength. Still you stand. Sturdy and smelling of smoke."

Clementine von Radics

[harmlessaccidentalthoughts]

"After seven years of experiments, it was clear to us that the remarkable attribute of resilience in the face of defeat need not remain a mystery. It was not an inborn trait; it could be acquired."

Martin Seligman, "Learned Optimism: How To Change Your Mind And Your Life"

[freshmoviequotes]

Journey to Italy (1954)

[thehopefulquotes]

“There’s really no shortcut to forgetting someone. You just have to endure missing them everyday until you don’t anymore.”

— Unknown

[thoughtkick]

“If a writer falls in love with you, you can never die.”

— Mik Everett

[thehopefulquotes]

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

— Florence + the Machine

[howloopyisthat]

[quotemadness]

“It’s all messy: the hair, the bed, the words, the heart. Life.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

[centuriespast]

Salammbo Desiré Maurice Ferrary (1852–1904) Lady Lever Art Gallery

[thehopefulquotes]

“I became good at pretending. I became so good that after a while the lines blurred between my truth and fiction. And sometimes, when I did a really good job of pretending, I even fooled myself.”

— Ruta Sepetys, Salt to the Sea

[quotemadness]

“You are not free until you have no need to impress anybody.”

— Joyce Meyer

[quotemadness]

“We mature with the damage, not with the years.”

— Mateus William

[thehopefulquotes]

“I’ve found that growing up means being honest. About what I want. What I need. What I feel. Who I am.”

— Epiphany

[il-salice-errante]

[spiritsdancinginthenight-deacti]

Mary Magdalene as a Hermit (detail), Francesco Hayez, 1833.