Hi.

I'm Ton and I haven't been writing much lately, sorry.

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

‘You have made so many enemies?’ he asked, with gentle irony.‘Strangers,’ she replied. ‘I seem to make strangers of all the people I meet.’

D.H. Lawrence, from The Complete Works (via violentwavesofemotion)

[wordsnquotes]

The deeper the feeling, the greater the pain.

Leonardo da Vinci (via wordsnquotes)

[thisiston]

Do you ever wonder who you would've been if you forgave yourself for all the love you've given

[wordsnquotes]

The scariest thing about the world is knowing it goes on when you’re not there.

Eric Kahn Gale, The Bully Book (via wordsnquotes)

[thisiston]

The whole reason why I wanted to be a psychologist was so that I could keep damaged people from damaging the people in their lives the way you do. It's so embedded in me I've found that most everything about me revolves around that fact. I know parents damage their children. I know about gratitude and thanking you for bringing me to life. I know about God and everything they say about what He wants. Somehow you've managed to dim the light in me and you've managed to overcome my sense of gratitude and how much I care for the people most important to me by pushing these people to their utmost limits and lining the frangible innocence of my sisters with cracks through your vile self-absorbed anger. I do not care if it takes everything I have to make you hate yourself. You will.

[thisiston]

I am afraid that I've grown to hate you so much I'm willing to burn the whole world down just to make you feel the slightest semblance of regret and self-loathing. The worst part is that even then, I'm not quite sure you will learn your lesson you goddamned monster

[purplebuddhaproject]

Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

Og Mandino (via purplebuddhaproject)

[princechickennugget]

Or maybe home is just two arms wrapped around you when you’re at your worst.

(via abdullah-ryf)

[statuscondition]

You know when I said I knew little about love? That wasn’t true. I know a lot about love. I’ve seen it, centuries and centuries of it, and it was the only thing that made watching your world bearable.

[tiny-facts]

Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you.

Mary Lou Retton (via psych-facts)

[purplebuddhaproject]

I’ve been making a list of the things they don’t teach you at school. They don’t teach you how to love somebody. They don’t teach you how to be famous. They don’t teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don’t teach you how to walk away from someone you don’t love any longer. They don’t teach you how to know what’s going on in someone else’s mind. They don’t teach you what to say to someone who’s dying. They don’t teach you anything worth knowing.

Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones  (via purplebuddhaproject)

[kushandwizdom]

Every time we talk I learn something new. You have me craving intellectual conversations and classing interactions with anyone else as just small talk.

MR (via kushandwizdom)

[thisiston]

holding on to you

The beauty of refusing to let go of anyone who has ever changed the direction of your life is not in the act of perpetual reminiscence. Romanticizing incapacitating nostalgia has long lost its appeal.

It is knowing the history of your being and being truly self-aware. It is knowing the novelty of each person in your life. It is the overwhelming sense of gratitude for the life you have come to build.

[thisiston]

tabula rasa

To be perfectly honest, I have deteriorated. The assurance of another tomorrow has persuaded me to put off tending to what I've built.

Three things are clear to me now.

One, what I do or refuse to do is not the sole definition who I am; to be precise, it is how I perceive the world and interact with it.

Two, I am convinced that the human ego is a double-edged sword.

And three, the interest of procrastinating on living the life you want is the most punishing penalty.

[larmoyante]

These are the days that must happen to you.

Walt Whitman (via karibu-nyumbani)

[hellanne]

I belong to quick, futile moments of intense feeling. Yes, I belong to moments. Not to people.

Virginia Woolf, A Passionate Apprentice (via thatrefinedwoman)

[purplebuddhaproject]

Stop this agony of wishing Play it out Don’t think, don’t hesitate Curving back within yourself Just create… Just create

Michael Jackson (via purplebuddhaproject)