“Remember that when you’re young and your career feels like the most important thing, the most important thing is love and the relationships you have with people.”

- Josephine de La Baume

“You can’t just carry everyone else’s hopes and fears around in your backpack and expect to stand up straight.”

David Kirk

He who leaps for the sky may fall, it’s true. But he may also fly.

- Lauren Oliver 

Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.

- Anna Quindlen

“Sometimes people think they know you. They know a few facts about you, and they piece you together in a way that makes sense to them. And if you don’t know yourself very well, you might even believe that they are right. But the truth is, that isn’t you. That isn’t you at all.”

— Leila Sales

Don’t mind anything anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.

- Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

“Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.”

— Terry Pratchett

“Just because things hadn’t gone the way I had planned didn’t necessarily mean they had gone wrong.”

— Ann Patchett

Because there’s nothing more beautiful than the way the ocean refuses to stop kissing the shoreline, no matter how many times it’s sent away.

Sarah Kay, No Matter the Wreckage

But if these years have taught me anything it is this: you can never run away. Not ever. The only way out is in.

- Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

“Don’t take anything personally. Nothing other people do is because of you. It is because of themselves.”

— Don Miguel Ruiz 

“When you feel someone else’s pain and joy as powerfully as if it were your own, then you know you really loved them.”

— Ann Brashares 

Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.

- Richard Feynman

“Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset.”

— Francis de Sales 

“I am rarely bored alone; I am often bored in groups and crowds.”

— Laurie Helgoe 

“Learn to be alone and to like it. There’s nothing more freeing and empowering than learning to like your own company.”

— Mandy Hale 

“All of us are insecure. But the difference with those who are destroyed by insecurity is they think the way they see themselves is how the world sees them too.”

— TheMindMovement

“A bad day for your ego is a great day for your soul.”

— Jillian Michaels 

With every person that leaves they take a piece of my heart. A piece of me I don’t plan on getting back.

mera dil fek dosto, ye ajeeb sa khela hai
haan aur na ka mela hai, shakar ka dana
kabhi karela hai, kabhi savita, kabhi sunita aur kabhi bela hai...

- Dil Lagana To Meri Adat Hai

When a flower doesn’t bloom you fix the environment in which it grows, not the flower.

tu me manques 

 Getting attached to things is pointless. That’s how things get screwed up. People care too much about everything. Let it go. You’ll be happier. 

 Tell me you’ll remember me, and I could live on by myself until the end of time. 

- extra-Mt./ it doesn’t even have to be a promise

 Come back! Even as a shadow, even as a dream. 

- Euripides, Herakles 

Think of how muscles are made. They have to be hurt and destroyed to be stronger. Don’t you think that’s how our hearts work, too?

extraterrestrial-mountaineer

 I wonder if there’s ever a place where the word goodbye doesn’t exist. 

- extra-Mt.

Cafe Dalton in Tunisi :)

Cafe Dalton, Les Burge Due Lac: Lac 1

Very interesting. All credit to Ahmed, the way he is taking it forward. My favorite place [indoor] to be. Made so many nice friends here.

These pics are from 1 of nights in FEB 2015 with all Gafsa People. Ayub, Yosra, Yassine, Amine, Bechier.

I think I’m greedy, but I’m not greedy for money - I think that can be a burden - I’m greedy for an exciting life.

David Hockney

"A quick and easy way to check to see if you have a pure heart is seeing how readily willing you are to give a compliment to others. If your first instinct when you see something nice or hear about the success of someone you feel constricted then know you have jealousy in your heart. If you genuinely feel happy for the other person and you feel secure with yourself it will be very easy to happily give a compliment. If you see traces of jealousy in your heart, train yourself to be content by realizing that everything is portioned with great wisdom. No one is going to take anything away from you that was meant for you. Realize the wisdom in the distribution of wealth, knowledge, beauty, and success. This will ease your heart, prevent you from eating yourself up and allow you to enjoy the beauty & success of others while feeling secure within."
Haleh Banani

"Dead people receive more flowers than the living ones because the regret is stronger than gratitude."

Anne Frank

"I am the unlucky lover

I cannot give myself to you

And I cannot go back to myself"

Mahmoud Darwish

Stop insisting on clearing your head — clear your f**king heart instead.

Charles Bukowski,

The things that we love tell us what we are

Life isn’t as serious as the mind makes it out to be.

Eckhart Tolle

"Life is the dancer and you are the dance."

Eckhart Tolle 

Don’t let a mad world tell you that success is anything other than a successful present moment.

ECKHART TOLLE

I have lost myself in the process of growing up.
- zosraus

We have three types of friends: friends for a reason, friends for a season, and friends for a lifetime.

Unknown

What you think of yourself is much more important than what other people think of you.

I love coffee. I sometimes get excited at night thinking of the coffee I’ll get to drink in the morning. Coffee is reason to wake up. There are other reasons, of course. But coffee is the incentive, at the very least.”

– Annie Clark

“Love others so radically they wonder why.”

– Jefferson Bethke

Fear appears from a false vision of reality

 May I a small house and large garden have;

And a few friends,

And many books, both true. 

— Abraham Cowley

One of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to facts.

— C. S. Lewis The Voyage Of The Dawn Treader

If you are insecure, guess what? 
The rest of the world is, too. Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think.

Timothy Ferriss 

I don’t have hobbies; hobbies cost money. Interests are quite free.

—George Carlin

“An active mind cannot exist in an inactive body.”
— George S. Patton

A person can be educated and still be stupid, and a wise man can have no education at all.

— Jennifer A. Nielsen The False Prince

You couldn’t always control life, just your response to it.

— C. C. Hunter Whispers At Moonrise

That’s what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.

— Arundhati Roy The God Of Small Things

You don’t have to be perfect to inspire other people. Let them be inspired by the way you deal with your struggles, your heartache and your imperfections.

Act quickly, think slowly."

Germaine Greer

…most of the time, all you have is the moment, and the imperfect love of the people around you.”

Anne Lamott

Success comes in a lot of ways, but it doesn’t come with money and it doesn’t come with fame. It comes from having a meaning in your life, doing what you love and being passionate about what you do. That’s having a life of success. When you have the ability to do what you love, love what you do and have the ability to impact people. That’s having a life of success. That’s what having a life of meaning is.”

Tim Tebow

If today ended in tears, you always have tomorrow, a bright new day will dawn, full of hope, a chance to right every wrong. 
━ The good light 

Sometimes people are beautiful.
Not in looks.
Not in what they say.
Just in what they are. 
━ Markus Zusak

Dime con quién andas, y te diré quién eres.
Tell me who your friends are, and I’ll tell you who you are.

Spanish proverb

Source: whyallcaps.us

Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.

—Socrates

An idea starts to be interesting when you get scared of taking it to its logical conclusion.

—Nassim Nicholas Taleb, T

The plain truth, I may as well admit it, is that I’ve never been really right in the head.

—Louis-Ferdinand Céline

Have you ever noticed people have a way of noticing what they want? I noticed you. That’s all.

—Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959) dir. by Alain Resnais

"If you let go a little, you will have a little peace. If you let go a lot, you will have a lot of peace."

Ajahn Chah