February 2011
A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the...
– Nabokov (via perfeitamenteinutil)
January 2011
Dust to dust. Ashes to ashes. The grim poetry of existence. But life is more...
– Stephen James- The Bishop (via quote-book)
Maybe love, too, is beautiful because it has a wildness that cannot be tamed. I...
– Deb Caletti, Wild Roses (via thingssheloves)
I’ve often lost myself, in order to find the burn that keeps everything awake.
– Federico García Lorca
I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great...
– Robert Louis Stevenson
Is it possible, finally, for one human being to achieve perfect understanding of...
– Haruki Murakami (via justbesplendid)
To become learned, each day add something. To become enlightened, each day drop...
– Lao Tzu
My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun;
Coral is far more red than...
– Sonnet 130, William Shakespeare
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
– Harry S. Truman
Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the...
– Denis Waitley (via mmitchelldaviss)
The best thing about acting is that I get to lose myself in another character...
– Leonardo DiCaprio
I believe gender is really fluid and although we are born into a sex - male,...
– Sia Furler (via williams-blood)
Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to...
– Claude Monet
The smallest bookstore still contains more ideas of worth than have been...
– Andrew Ross (via cantshutup)
Being born a woman is an awful tragedy… Yes, my consuming desire to mingle with...
– Sylvia Plath (via bibliofeminista)
I am overwhelmed by the beautiful disorder of poetry, the eternal virginity of...
– Theodore Roethke
You make yourself strong because it’s expected of you.
You become...
– Jodi Picoult
I can’t stand “real” men. Masculinity is trash. Go cry in a corner, write in a...
– Joshua Bennett
The hardest thing for me is to say no. I feel like...
expressivity-:
— Rihanna
We’re flawed because we want so much more. We’re ruined because we get these...
– Don Draper, Mad Men
But it’s precisely in despair that you find the most intense pleasure,...
– Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes From Underground (via superjohnny4)
On film you put all your energies into a single glance.
– Alan Rickman
You know hurt is a funny thing. The same thing that makes one person angry, can...
– The Tale of Despereaux (via quote-book)
The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.
– Goethe
I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is...
– James Baldwin (via thechocolatebrigade)
When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never...
– Edgar Watson Howe (via thingssheloves)
To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong.
– Joseph Chilton Pearce
Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.
– Lao Tsu
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
– Henry Ford (via followandreblog)
Something is fundamentally wrong with the female body and it’s natural to be...
– Teenagers and Cosmetic Surgery - The F-Word (via phantomwise) (via loveyourchaos, ilovefat)
Wouldn’t it just be rock ‘n roll if liking someone meant they had to like you...
– Pushing Daisies (via misswallflower)
We have before us the glorious opportunity to inject a new dimension of love...
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
I don’t want realism. I want magic! Yes, yes, magic. I try to give that to...
– A Streetcar Named Desire (via quotewhore)
There are immeasurably more left inside than what comes out in words.
– Fyodor Dostevsky (via vintage-hippie)
Don’t react against a bad situation; Merge with that situation instead. And the...
– Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth (via justbesplendid)
How many hearts would be invaded for the wrong reasons, if each time you said “I...
– I Wrote This For You (via quotewhore)
Everybody is a genius. But, if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree,...
– Albert Einstein
Believe in love. Believe in magic. Hell, believe in Santa Clause. Believe in...
– Jon Bon Jovi (via misswallflower)
Curl up next to me
and fall asleep to the calm
that only I bring.
– Daily Haiku on Love by Tyler Knott Gregson (via tylerknott)
I lied when I told you I forgot. I know it doesn’t seem like a big thing but I...
– I Wrote This For You | Submitted by: Inspired(x)Jangles (via quote-book)
None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
– Goethe (via vintage-hippie)
Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts,...
– Bob Marley (via andrenicholas)
Your body is a temple, but how long can you live in the same house before you...
– Author Unknown