March 2013
“And no matter how many land mines erupt in a minute, be sure your mind lands on...”
– Sarah Kay, “If I should have a daughter…” (via larmoyante)
Pursuit of Beauty: My reaction to finding out... →
fit-is-the-new-sexy:
Just because a girl has/had sex doesn’t mean she is a slut. Just like how a girl who is a virgin isn’t a slut. And why is it that guys who have a lot of sex are considered a hero but a girl who does that is a whore? And a guys who saves himself for marriage is a prude? And just because someone…
January 2013
“Far too many people are looking for the right person,
instead of trying to be...”
– Gloria Steinem (via showslow)
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“Some birds are not meant to be caged, that’s all. Their feathers are too bright,...”
– Stephen King, Different Seasons (via pavorst)
“She wore flowers in her hair and carried magic secrets in her eyes. She spoke to...”
– Arundhati Roy (via hellanne)
“I walk around the world like a ghost, and sometimes I question whether I even...”
– Paul Auster, Travels in the Scriptorium (via 4mbivalent)
Sometimes at night I suddenly become aware of all the things I’m missing out on right now, and all the people who I’m not close to anymore, and all of the good times that will never happen again, and all the people who meant the world to me who have forgotten about me forever, and I get this awful feeling that’s kind of like a mix between loneliness and nostalgia.
“When you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don’t blame the lettuce....”
– Thich Nhat Hanh, Vietnamese Buddhist Monk (via garenwhitmore)
“No one’s fated or doomed to love anyone.
The accidents happen, we’re not...”
– -poet Adrienne Rich on love, via Brainpickings
(That last line kills me.—Jessica H.)
“The world doesn’t understand me and I don’t understand the world, that’s why...”
– Paul Cézanne (via mirroir)
“A novel worth reading is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of...”
– Susan Sontag (via pavorst)
“Because they were roses and I was just a dandelion.”
– ikilledalaska (via claude-sama)
“But you can’t give your heart to a wild thing; the more you do, the stronger...”
– Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s (via atomos)
