He smiled whenever he saw me, and we could’ve built a life on that.
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (via northofhopeless)
(via tequilaxmockingbird)
4
Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.
Paulo Coelho (via danceabletragedy)
I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
Ernest Hemingway (via danceabletragedy)
Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.
Carl Jung (via instrictconfidence)
(via datcap)
19
Your epitaph will begin: “She redefined what it meant to be a good woman.”
It will say: “She scaled mountains, in hiking boots and in heels. She started in her own backyard and then went all the way around the world. She accepted challenges with curiosity and determination. She emerged victorious regardless of outcome, knowing both the pleasure of success and the grace of failure. She tasted long hot days and cool still nights, at home wherever she found herself. She wasn’t always popular, but she was always true. She wasn’t always comfortable, but no one can say she didn’t enjoy her life. She explored her edges, increased her capacity, and lived as big as she could dream. Moved equally by bliss and pain, she played her heart out one moment at a time. She was dialed in. She was courageous. She was turned on.”
Some sheer inspiration from The Turned-on Woman’s Manifesto (via thatkindofwoman)
(Source: thecowation, via tonystarksaslytherin)
When did we see each other face-to-face? Not until you saw into my cracks and I saw into yours. Before that, we were just looking at ideas of each other, like looking at your window shade but never seeing inside. But once the vessel cracks, the light can get in. The light can get out.
John Green (via venae-cavae)
8
(Source: silent-musings, via replek)
37My self-confidence comes from the fact that I have discovered my own dimensions. It does not behoove me to make myself smaller than I am.
Edith Södergran (via shaktilover)
(Source: misswallflower, via pennygolightly)
An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of life: it names, it characterizes, it passes judgment, in that it creates.
Thomas Mann (via writingquotes)
17
We aren’t suggesting that mental instability or unhappiness makes one a better poet, or a poet at all; and contrary to the romantic notion of the artist suffering for his or her work, we think these writers achieved brilliance in spite of their suffering, not because of it.
Dorianne Laux (via writingquotes)
31
Today, find a place to sit still for a moment. Like the Buddha, take
your seat and look over your day with eyes of great compassion.
@InsightLA (via wordslessspoken)
51
(Source: what-i-choose-to-become, via replek)
26Work is not what we do for a living, but what we do with our living…The opposite of work is not leisure or play or having fun, but idleness – not investing ourselves in anything.
William Bennett (via owlwaltz)
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Year 2, Week 19: The Six of Hearts
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24” x 17.125”
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