“Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.”
—Vaclav Havel
October 2010
“Courage, it would seem, is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that life with all its sorrows is good; that everything is meaningful even if in a sense beyond our understanding; and that there is always tomorrow.”
—Dorothy Thompson
“Never do things others can do and will do, if there are things others cannot do or will not do.”
—Amelia Earhart
“The pen is mightier than the sword, and considerably easier to write with.”
—Marty Feldman
“Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.”
—Lao Tzu
“After all this, doesn’t he understand that the future doesn’t necessarily follow a straight, unbroken line?”
—Jodi Picoult, Perfect Match (via daniellekiemel)
“A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.”
—Orson Welles (via onlovestreet)
“There is no difference between injuring people and wronging them.”
—Socrates (via quote-book)
“Everyone edits themselves here, and it makes me wonder whether you’re ever actually connected to real people, or just the people they all wish they were.”
—I Wrote This For You: The Wonderful Flaws You Could Have (via loveyourchaos)
“Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it, we go nowhere.”
—Carl Sagan (via justbesplendid)
“Because that’s what people do. They leap and hope to God they can fly! Because otherwise, we just drop like a rock… wondering the whole way down, ‘Why in the hell did I jump?’ ”
—Hitch (via quote-book)
“Promise me you’ll never forget me because if I thought you would, I’d never leave.”
—Winnie the Pooh (via reluctantbuddha)
“Civil disobedience, that’s not our problem. Our problem is that people are obedient all over the world in the face of poverty and starvation and stupidity, and war, and cruelty. Our problem is that people are obedient while the jails are full of petty thieves, and all the while the grand thieves are running the country. That’s our problem.”
—Howard Zinn (via austra)
“What gives this music industry fuckers the right to declare who lives and who dies? It’s bullshit. Nobody crashes the Motley car except us. All our wounds have been self inflicted.”
—Nikki Sixx (via rachellosaurus)
“You know when you see a photograph of someone you know, but it’s from years before you knew them. It’s like they’re not quite finished—they’re not done yet.”
—River Song (via jenniesays)
“I want words at my funeral. But I guess that means you need life in your life.”
—I Am The Messenger, Markus Zusak (via dailyliterature) (via quote-book)
“I push people away because I am waiting for someone to push back.”
—Maggie Sims
“A bad day for your ego is a great day for your soul.”
—Jillian Michaels
“Love yourself the way Nature made you, and you will prevail. Always.”
—Meg Cabot
“If the story is in you, it has got to come out.”
—William Faulkner
“Honor your calling. Everybody has one. Trust your heart and success will come to you.”
—Oprah
“No one ever carried my load; I’m too young to feel this old.”
—Cold Desert, Kings Of Leon (via quote-book)
“Isn’t a genius just a nuts person that turned out to be right?”
—Tim Minchin (via xilaii)
“My mind is my own church.”
—Thomas Paine
“The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.”
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Unbeing dead isn’t being alive.”
—E. E. Cummings
“‘Tis a difficult thing to love something death can touch.”
—Donna de la Perriere (via bradley23)
“I want to remember it all. If all is too much, then some of it. No, more than some of it. Almost all. Almost all, with blanks reserved for the missing parts.”
—Nathan Glass from “The Brooklyn Follies” (via quote-book)
“Can you smell the rain
mixing with the Autumn leaves?
Can you feel me still?” —Daily Haiku on Love by Tyler Knott Gregson (via tylerknott)
mixing with the Autumn leaves?
Can you feel me still?” —Daily Haiku on Love by Tyler Knott Gregson (via tylerknott)
“All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.”
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (via kari-shma)
“These days, kids avoid stuff because it’s old, but why? When I speak to people about music and they say, ‘I don’t know about that; it was a bit before my time’, it really angers me. Mozart was before my time, but does that make him irrelevant? I wasn’t hanging around with Hitler, but I’ve heard of him.”
—Martin Freeman. (via bollyknickers)
“We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.”
—Kurt Vonnegut (via loveyourchaos)
“Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood.”
—H. L. Mencken
“All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (via unlawfulrawness)
“If you’re so funny then why are you on your own tonight?
And if you’re so clever then why are you on your own tonight?
If you’re so very entertaining why are you on your own tonight?
If you’re so very good-looking why do you sleep alone tonight?
I know. ‘Cause tonight is just like any other night…” —The Smiths (via hellisforheroes)
And if you’re so clever then why are you on your own tonight?
If you’re so very entertaining why are you on your own tonight?
If you’re so very good-looking why do you sleep alone tonight?
I know. ‘Cause tonight is just like any other night…” —The Smiths (via hellisforheroes)
“Even people who claim everything is predestined n that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.”
—Stephen Hawking
“Is ‘fat’ really the worst thing a human being can be? Is ‘fat’ worse than ‘vindictive’, ‘jealous’, ‘shallow’, ‘vain’, ‘boring’ or ‘cruel’? Not to me.”
—J.K. Rowling (via loveyourchaos)
“Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.”
—Henry Ward Beecher (via grace-notes)
“The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.”
—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (via misswallflower)
“You know I’m a dreamer
But my heart’s of gold
I had to run away high
So I wouldn’t come home low” —
But my heart’s of gold
I had to run away high
So I wouldn’t come home low” —
Motley Crue (via songularly)
<3
(via nikkisixx)
“Even covered with mud I shall praise you, from the deepest abysses I shall cry to you. In my solitude you will be with me. I am determined not to revolt but to accept every outrage through devotion to love, to let my body be dishonoured so long as my soul may always keep the image of you … Pleasure hides love from us, but pain reveals its essence.”
—Oscar Wilde in Love Letters of Great Men (via distantheartbeats)
“You can’t go back,’ she told him bluntly. Her voice was neither kind nor unkind. ‘That part of your life is over. Set it aside as something you have finished. Complete or no, it is done with you. No being gets to decide what his life is “supposed to be”.’ She lifted her eyes and her gaze stabbed at him. ‘Be a man. Discover where you are now, and go on from there, making the best of things. Accept your life, and you might survive it. If you hold back from it, insisting this is not your life, not where you are meant to be, life will pass you by. You may not die from such foolishness, but you might as well be dead for all the good your life will do you or anyone else.”
—Robin Hobb (via daniellekiemel)
“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them - that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.”
—Lao Tzu
“The so-called ‘psychotically depressed’ person who tries to kill herself doesn’t do so out of quote ‘hopelessness’ or any abstract conviction that life’s assets and debits do not square. And surely not because death seems suddenly appealing. The person in whom Its invisible agony reaches a certain unendurable level will kill herself the same way a trapped person will eventually jump from the window of a burning high-rise. Make no mistake about people who leap from burning windows. Their terror of falling from a great height is still just as great as it would be for you or me standing speculatively at the same window just checking out the view; i.e. the fear of falling remains a constant. The variable here is the other terror, the fire’s flames: when the flames get close enough, falling to death becomes the slightly less terrible of two terrors. It’s not desiring the fall; it’s terror of the flames. And yet nobody down on the sidewalk, looking up and yelling ‘Don’t!’ and ‘Hang on!’, can understand the jump. Not really. You’d have to have personally been trapped and felt flames to really understand a terror way beyond falling.”
—Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace (via loveyourchaos)
“I spend 23 hours a day wondering whether we’re wrong for each other, wondering whether we’ve got the energy that we need to get through everything that we seem to get into … whether the baggage we both bring would sink a small ship. But in the 24th hour, I realize I’ve been thinking about her for 23 hours and I come back to … there’s something about her I can’t get away from. Something about her that makes me want to love her.”
—ER (via quotewhore)
“People are different. That’s why people are beautiful.”
—Delirious (via misswallflower)
“I’m a supporter of gay rights. And not a closet supporter either. From the time I was a kid, I have never been able to understand attacks upon the gay community. There are so many qualities that make up a human being… by the time I get through with all the things that I really admire about people, what they do with their private parts is probably so low on the list that it is irrelevant.”
—Paul Newman (via leganddairy)
“The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.”
—Chinese proverb (via reluctantbuddha)
