The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed. 
- Ernest Hemingway

Perhaps, the problem is not the intensity of your love, but the quality of the people you are loving.

- Warsan Shire

Everything in the world exists in order to end up as a book.
- Stéphane Mallarmé

Nothing offends a man of our day and our race more than to tell him that he is not original, that he is weak-willed, has no particular talents and is an ordinary person.

Dostoevsky, The Idiot

I love that sweet smell of decay that surrounds me in forests and woods. A kind of mulchy, deep, rich rot that has no connotation of death or ending, but rather of life and age. A sense of perpetual destruction and rebirth.Unknown

 I wish somebody had told me that loving people, knowing how to love those people, and those people loving you back were three entirely different things.
Della Hicks-Wilson

Our imagination flies - we are its shadow on the earth.

Vladimir Nabokov

I learned that love doesn’t hold its tongue and passion doesn’t bow to what ‘they’ think. Sometimes it’s painful to be brave, to look fear in the face - and know Your name.

Steffany Gretzinger, I Spoke Up

Angry people want you to see how powerful they are. Loving people want you to see how powerful you are.

Chief Red Eagle

“Sometimes you have to lose the battle to win the war.”

your mind is a garden, you can grow flowers, or you can grow weeds

Spend your time on those who love you unconditionally. Don’t waste it on those that only love you when the conditions are right for them.”

– Unknown 

Growth is painful. Change is painful.But nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don’t belong.”

– Mandy Hale (

“Strength is realizing that it is impossible to be strong all the time”

– Sally Franser 

Life becomes more meaningful when you realize the simple fact that you’ll never get the same moment twice.”

One can furnish a room very luxuriously by taking out furniture rather than putting it in.

—Francis Jourdain

If you are not content with what you have, you would not be satisfied if it were doubled.

—Charles Spurgeon

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

—Charles Spurgeon

Tea is an act complete in its simplicity.
When I drink tea, there is only me and the tea.
The rest of the world dissolves.
There are no worries about the future.
No dwelling on past mistakes.
Tea is simple: loose-leaf tea, hot pure water, a cup.
I inhale the scent, tiny delicate pieces of the tea floating above the cup.
I drink the tea, the essence of the leaves becoming a part of me.
I am informed by the tea, changed.
This is the act of life, in one pure moment, and in this act the truth of the world suddenly becomes revealed: all the complexity, pain, drama of life is a pretense, invented in our minds for no good purpose.
There is only the tea, and me, converging.

—Thich Nhat Hanh

 As noble as it sounds to say you would die for someone. It takes more courage and commitment, to live for them. 

william chapman 

I only think of you 2 times a day. All day, and every day. 

William Chapman 

Be who you are with confidence. Nothing will hold you back more then being afraid of who you are. 

William Chapman 

A great future doesn’t require a great past

 it’s about who you miss at 2 in the afternoon when you’re busy, not 2 in the morning when you’re lonely. 

She stuck a bookmark in my heart and walked away.

― Saul Williams, She

“ Read books. 
Ride buses. 
Take walks.
Speak to your loneliness. ”

— Pavana

“ Childhood is a knife stuck in your throat. It can’t be easily removed. ”

— Incendies (2011)

We are not the dirt
we are planted in, 

we are the light 
and the water
we nourish ourselves from.

We are the flowers 
we choose to be. ”— Pavana  

“ Life is too short to keep breaking your back for someone who doesn’t have a spine of their own. ”

— Pavana

"The most fundamental aggression to ourselves, the most fundamental harm we can do to ourselves, is to remain ignorant by not having the courage and the respect to look at ourselves honestly and gently."

 Pema Chödrön, When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times

"Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness."

—  Anne Carson, The Beauty of the Husband

Girls who don’t receive romantic/sexual attention from boys blame themselves

Boys who don’t receive romantic/sexual attention from girls blame girls

Remember, it’s your job to look for something cool in everyone you meet; it’s not their job to show you. This is life, not a fucking sales convention. 

Mark Manson 

“If you do not love where you are, 
I invite you to question your beliefs.”
- Byron Katie

"Be like the sun for grace and mercy.
Be like the night to cover others’ faults. 

Be like running water for generosity. 

Be like death for rage and anger. 

Be like the Earth for modesty.
Appear as you are. Be as you appear."

Rumi

“Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists.”

—   A Course in Miracles 

“If you don’t change, then what’s the point of anything happening to you?”

—   Doug Copeland

“The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you.”

—   Stephanie Perkins

“I’m not for everyone. I’m barely for me.”

—   Marc Maron  

"How long has it been since someone touched part of you other than your body?"

- Laurel Hoodwrit

"Veganism is not about how easy or hard it is for you. It’s about every animal’s right not to be used as a slave."

- Randy Sandberg 

"It doesn’t matter if it’s a relationship, a lifestyle, or a job. If it doesn’t make you happy let it go."

- William Chapman

“No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.”

—   Eleanor Roosevelt.

It is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else’s life with perfection.
The Bhagavad Gita

One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love."

Sophocles

"I, a universe of atoms, am an atom in the universe."

-Richard Feynman, Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track

Who were you before the world told you what you were not. 
Bryant McGill 

If only our eyes saw souls instead of bodies
how very different our ideals of beauty would be....

"One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived."

Paul Bourget

“If you want to learn what someone fears losing, watch what they photograph.”

—   Unknown.