December 2011
“Appreciation is a wonderful thing; it makes what is excellent in others belong...”
– Voltaire
“If you don’t get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don’t want, you...”
– Socrates
“I want morning and noon and nightfall with you. I want your tears, your smiles,...”
– Lisa Keyplas (via atomiclanterns)
“And instead of singing in the shower I would write out the lyrics of my favorite...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer (via beautyisanillusion)
“Statistically, the probability of any one of us being here is so small that the...”
– Lewis Thomas (via joshuakaufman)
“There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people....”
– Buddha
“You can feel the whole world and still feel lost in it. So many people are in...”
– Mitch Albom (via julie911)
“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
– Stephen King (via litglutton)
“Do the thing you fear most, and the death of fear is certain.”
– Mark Twain
“If we listened to our intellect we’d never have a love affair. We’d never have a...”
– Ray Bradbury (via misswallflower)
“It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.”
– Victor Hugo (via constellationstessellations)
“We’re taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me...”
– Alanis Morissette (via wrists)
“Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become...”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (via misswallflower)
“I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively...”
– Sylvia Plath (via splinter-eye)
“That’s always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone...”
– John Green (via misswallflower)
“Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.”
– Erica Jong (via misswallflower)
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“There is always something to do. There are hungry people to feed, naked people...”
– Nikki Giovanni
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“It is with the reading of books the same as with looking at pictures; one must,...”
– Vincent van Gogh
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“When you came, you were like red wine and honey,
And the taste of you burnt my...”
– Amy Lowell
“How can you hear your soul if everyone is talking?”
– Mary Doria Russell (via misswallflower)
“You feel like sunlight
that cannot help but peek through
the clouds in my...”
– Daily Haiku on Love by Tyler Knott Gregson (via tylerknott)
“You’ve been assigned an identity since birth. Then you spend the rest of your...”
– Going Bovine, Libba Bray (via aspen-tree)
“God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.”
– J.M. Barrie (via misswallflower)