“Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word “loneliness” to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word “solitude” to express the glory of being alone.”
—Paul Johannes Tillich (via lostinthesounds)
June 2012
“There are all kinds of love in this world, but never the same love twice.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (via loveyourchaos)
“We cross our bridges when we come to them, and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.”
—Tom Stoppard (via kari-shma)
“Tip toe your fingers
across the globe of my skin
and find a new home.” —Daily Haiku on Love by Tyler Knott Gregson (via finedineonmyvegangenitalia)
across the globe of my skin
and find a new home.” —Daily Haiku on Love by Tyler Knott Gregson (via finedineonmyvegangenitalia)
“I don’t know what they are called, the spaces between seconds– but I think of you always in those intervals.”
—Salvador Plascencia (via anditslove)
“His tiredness hurt so much it kept him awake.”
—Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections (via creatingaquietmind)
“I just need to know that someone out there listens and understands and doesn’t try to sleep with people even if they could have. I need to know that these people exist.”
—Stephen Chbosky (via from-the-woods)
“I feel like I’m just passing through life. But then there’s this voice in my head telling me to do something, to create something, to make something, and I want to listen to it, but I don’t know how.”
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Nick Miller (via anditslove)
Sums up how I’m feeling right now
“If you’re brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.”
—Paulo Coehlo (via submergedinhope)
“You can’t own a human being. You can’t lose what you don’t own. Suppose you did own him. Could you really love somebody who was absolutely nobody without you? You really want somebody like that? Somebody who falls apart when you walk out the door? You don’t, do you? And neither does he. You’re turning over your whole life to him. Your whole life, girl. And if it means so little to you that you can just give it away, hand it to him, then why should it mean any more to him? he can’t value you more than you value yourself.”
—Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison (via thechocolatebrigade)
“The sense of unhappiness is so much easier to convey than that of happiness. In misery we seem aware of our own existence, even though it may be in the form of a monstrous egotism: this pain of mine is individual, this nerve that winces belongs to me and to no other. But happiness annihilates us: we lose our identity.”
—The End of the Affair by Graham Greene (via thechocolatebrigade)
“The greatest lie ever told about love is that it sets you free.”
—Zadie Smith (via lostinthesounds)
“We don’t forgive people because they deserve it. We forgive them because they need it—because we need it.”
—Bree Despain (via kari-shma)
“I wish I’d done everything on Earth with you.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (via cityyandcolour)
“The more you love a memory the stronger and stranger it becomes.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (via nirvikalpa)
“As bad as losing faith in humanity seems, losing your faith in happy endings is much worst.”
—Jason Gideon (via illabye)
“Would you like to save the world from the degradation and destruction it seems destined for? Then step away from shallow mass movements and quietly go to work on your own self-awareness. If you want to awaken all of humanity, then awaken all of yourself. If you want to eliminate the suffering in the world, then eliminate all that is dark and negative in yourself. Truly, the greatest gift you have to give is that of your own self-transformation.”
—Lao Tzu (via illuminatedbeing)
“It’s about misunderstandings between people and places, being disconnected and looking for moments of connection. There are so many moments in life when people don’t say what they mean, when they are just missing each other, waiting to run into each other in a hallway.”
—Sofia Coppola (trying to explain what Lost In Translation is about)
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“Smart girls are the overthinkers, the insecure ones, the different ones. They know what the real world is like. They analyze every little thing in life. Why? To avoid getting hurt. To find happiness. They stay up at night trying to think about every possible situation to get through all the problems. They think too much. They trust fewer people. Their insecurity proves their respect toward themselves. Of course they try to live away from a drama-filled life. Smart girls know their worth. Now those are the ones worth keeping by your side.” -Unknown
“You are someone I can read over and over again, that I want to read to others, that I can recommend and not feel too uneasy about it.”
—You Are A Short Story, He Was A Novel (via merryandtragical)
“But sometimes we get sad about things and we don’t like to tell other people that we are sad about them. We like to keep it a secret. Or sometimes we are sad but we don’t really know we are sad. So we say we aren’t sad. But really we are.”
—(via kushahira)
