Journal

[ravagery]

I don’t know where I am. I found myself in this state of doubt, and strangely, in the midst of all this chaos, things seem to be fine. I don’t know what all the small parts will amount to, what the daily waves will bring with them. At the same time I’ve never felt so certain of where I am heading. Why does it matter where I am now if I know this is not where I will settle?

[observando]

The life of every individual is really always a tragedy, but gone through in detail, it has the character of a comedy.

Arthur Schopenhauer (via observando)

[observando]

If we accept time for what it is, how it flows and how we flow with it, I doubt very much that would continue wasting loads of it by constantly checking our watches.

Samantha Sotto, Before Ever After (via observando)

[observando]

Everyone thinks that courage is about facing death without flinching. But almost anyone can do that. Almost anyone can hold their breath and not scream for as long as it takes to die. True courage is about facing life without flinching. I don’t mean the times when the right path is hard, but glorious at the end. I’m talking about enduring the boredom, the messiness, and the inconvenience of doing what is right.

Robin Hobb, The Mad Ship (via observando)

[observando]

There are times in our lives when we have to realize our past is precisely what it is, and we cannot change it. But we can change the story we tell ourselves about it, and by doing that, we can change the future.

Eleanor Brown, The Weird Sisters (via observando)

[unculturedmag]

I am jealous of those who think more deeply, who write better, who draw better, who look better, who live better, who love better than I.

Sylvia Plath (via unculturedmag)

[larmoyante]

You’ll meet her. She’s very pretty, even though sometimes she’s sad for many days at a time. You’ll see, when she smiles, you’ll love her.

Ofelia in Pan’s Labyrinth (2006)

[larmoyante]

I keep thinking you already know. I keep thinking I’ve sent you letters that were only ever written in my mind.

Iain S. Thomas (via larmoyante)

[larmoyante]

Someone you haven’t even met yet is wondering what it’d be like to know someone like you.

Iain Thomas (via larmoyante)

[larmoyante]

Instead of feeling alone in a group, it’s better to be alone in your solitude.

Cowboy Bebop (via larmoyante)

[larmoyante]

We teach girls to shrink themselves, to make themselves smaller. We say to girls, you can have ambition, but not too much. You should aim to be successful, but not too successful. Otherwise, you would threaten the man. Because I am female, I am expected to aspire to marriage. I am expected to make my life choices always keeping in mind that marriage is the most important. Now marriage can be a source of joy and love and mutual support but why do we teach girls to aspire to marriage and we don’t teach boys the same? We raise girls to see each other as competitors not for jobs or accomplishments, which I think can be a good thing, but for the attention of men. We teach girls that they cannot be sexual beings in the way that boys are. Feminist: a person who believes in the social, political, and economic equality of the sexes

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (via larmoyante)

[vera-beshti-deactivated20150105]

“It is so much safer not to feel, not to let the world touch me.”

Sylvia Plath (via vera-beshti)

[introspectivepoet]

I didn’t know why I was going to cry, but I knew that if anybody spoke to me or looked at me too closely the tears would fly out of my eyes and the sobs would fly out of the throat and I’d cry for a week.

Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar (via introspectivepoet)

[pendragonlefay]

I fancied you’d return the way you said, But I grow old and I forget your name. (I think I made you up inside my head.)

Sylvia Plath, Mad Girl’s Love Song (via sansahowls)

[ellednorih]

Tout ce que je rencontre devient partie de moi. A vous, tous, que vous le sachiez ou non, qui êtes venus flâner dans le tissu de ma vie et qui en êtes ensuite ressortis : vous m’avez laissé une part temporaire dont je ferai quelque chose.

Sylvia Plath, Journaux (via ellednorih)

[ellednorih]

Il n’est pas nécessaire d’être entouré pour être valorisé. Le lion marche seul alors que le mouton marche en troupeau.

(via ellednorih)

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

Why are there some things I want so much to say, and others I want to bury?

Simone de Beauvoir, from a diary entry (via violentwavesofemotion)