November 2011
tell me your secrets: Until that moment, I had... →
aeloquence:
Until that moment, I had always thought that the earth on which I stood was a solid object that would last for ever…I had simply taken it for granted. But in fact, the earth was nothing but a chunk of rock floating in one little corner of the universe: a temporary foothold in the vast emptiness of…
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tell me your secrets: No matter how powerful and... →
aeloquence:
No matter how powerful and real your feelings may be for someone, if that person cannot fully and honestly return them and therefore actively love you back, these feelings mean nothing. Being lonely … being alone … for many people … sucks. I get it, I get it, I get it. But still I have to say…
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“Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.”
– Oscar Wilde (via aeloquence)
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“I wrote on the door of my heart, ‘Please do not enter.’
Love came smiling and...”
– Michael Paul (via aeloquence)
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“You may have in a house costly pictures and costly ornaments, and a great...”
– John Bright, as cited in The Book-Lover: a guide to the best reading (via bookoasis)
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I feel so sorry for those in my generation who...
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“Tell your father he’s a jerk because he is. Tell your mother that you love her...”
– Ryan O’Connell (via creatingaquietmind)
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quote-book:
“My ambition is handicapped by laziness.”
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Charles Bukowski (via imfantasyparade)
and mine by indecision.
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“Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who...”
– C.G. Jung (via misswallflower)
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aeloquence:
Meaning and morality of One’s life come from within oneself. Healthy, strong individuals seek self expansion by experimenting and by living dangerously. Life consists of an infinite number of possibilities and the healthy person explores as many of them as posible. Religions that teach pity, self-contempt, humility, self-restraint and guilt are incorrect. The good life is ever...
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October 2011
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“I have no right to say or do anything that diminishes a man in his own eyes....”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (via misswallflower)
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“A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in...”
– Albert Einstein (via aeloquence)
September 2011
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“I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies;...”
– Aristotle (via girlwithoutwings)
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“All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my...”
– Goethe (via tumbleword)
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“Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must...”
– George Bernard Shaw (via creatingaquietmind)
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“I had that feeling you get—there is no word for this feeling—when you are...”
– Dear Sugar, November 4, 2010 (via creatingaquietmind)
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“Letting go doesn’t mean we don’t care. Letting go doesn’t mean we shut down....”
– Melody Beattie (via creatingaquietmind)
August 2011
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“Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.”
– Carlos Ruiz Zafón (The Shadow of the Wind)
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“Reading is everything. Reading makes me feel like I’ve accomplished something,...”
– Nora Ephron (via atomos)
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July 2011
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“There was a storm and thousands and thousands of starfish were washed up on the...”
– Holy Man, 1998 (via julie911)
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