Stumbling Through Life

"People say that what we’re all seeking is a meaning for life. I don’t think that’s what we’re really seeking. I think that what we’re seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonances within our own innermost being and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive."

[quotemadness]

You did something for me I couldn’t do for myself. You loved me for who I am.

William Chapman

[quotemadness]

Our suffering is caused by holding on to how things might have been, should have been, could have been.

Stephen Levine (via quotemadness)

[weltenwellen]

Franny Choi, from "I Guess By Now I Thought I’d Be Done With Shame"

[weltenwellen]

Franny Choi, from “Catastrophe is Next to Godliness”

[neil-gaiman]

The stars were out tonight.

[quotemadness]

Never be afraid to fall apart because it is an opportunity to rebuild yourself the way you wish you had been all along.

Rae Smith (via quotemadness)

[weltenwellen]

Kaveh Akbar, from "Heritage", Calling a Wolf a Wolf

[quotemadness]

“Time only moves in one direction. Remember that. Things always change.”

— Mohsin Hamid

[gnossienne]

A self-portrait of Dutch post-Impressionist artist Vincent van Gogh has been uncovered hidden behind one of his paintings.

National Galleries of Scotland said on Thursday art conservators made the discovery, believed to be a first for a UK institution, during an x-ray examination of Van Gogh's 1885 artwork "Head of a Peasant Woman" for an upcoming exhibition.

It said the x-ray showed "a bearded sitter in a brimmed hat with a neckerchief loosely tied at the throat. He fixes the viewer with an intense stare, the right side of his face in shadow and his left ear clearly visible".

The image was hidden behind cardboard and layers of glue (x)

[firstfullmoon]

Linda Gregg, from “I Thought on His Desire for Three Days” [ID in alt text]

[quotemadness]

So, do it. Decide. Is this the life you want to live? Is this the person you want to love? Is this the best you can be? Can you be stronger? Kinder? More compassionate? Decide. Breathe in. Breathe out, and decide.

Meredith Grey (via quotemadness)

[therealbucky05]

[mentalquotes]

Some steps need to be taken alone. It’s the only way to really figure out where you need to go and who you need to be.

Mandy Hale (via mentalquotes)

[engulfes]

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[thequeensbastardenglish]

[quotemadness]

I used to imagine adventures for myself, I invented a life, so that I could at least exist somehow.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky (via quotemadness)

[weltenwellen]

Jenny Slate, Little Weirds