January 2012
A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under...
– B.F. Skinner (via justbesplendid)
3 tags
I have loved to the point of madness, that which is called madness, that which...
– Francoise Sagan
And now I’m looking at you,” he said, “and you’re asking me if I still want you,...
– Cassandra Clare (via quotewhore)
Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
– Zig Ziglar (via justbesplendid)
The more that you read, the more things you will know.
The more that you learn,...
– Dr Seuss (via emeraldswillfall)
misswallflower:
“In the desert I saw a creature, naked, bestial, Who, squatting upon the ground, Held his heart in his hands, And ate of it. I said, “Is it good, friend?” “It is bitter — bitter,” he answered; “But I like it Because it is bitter, And because it is my heart.”
― Stephen Crane
I will tell you what Jeanne was like. She was like a piano in a country where...
– Angela Carter (via misswallflower)
Don’t write yourself
in between worlds,
rise up against
multiple meanings,
...
– Paul Celan (via blacksheepboy-)
I want to be like water. I want to slip through fingers, but hold up a ship.
– Michelle Williams (via forgot-forgotten)
4 tags
I remember when I was doing Rent and I was too thin, and I was doing that on...
– Rosario Dawson
On a side note you can’t love without risk. Sometimes love is a terrible idea,...
– Steven Elliot, The Daily Rumpus (via poorlywrittenhistory)
I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is...
– Goethe (via nathanielstuart)
The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.
– John Green (via misswallflower)
Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start...
– Audrey Hepburn (via misswallflower)
I love you abandoned to your sleep,
the unflexed cups of your hands
lying open...
– Peregrine (via youreyesblazeout)
To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.
– Joseph Chilton Pearce (via saddest-summer)
5 tags
The real issue is not talent as an independent element, but talent in...
– Milton Glaser
You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the...
– Oscar Wilde
Enjoy your body, use it every way you can. Don’t be afraid of it, or what other...
– Kurt Vonnegut (via winterlungs)
misswallflower:
“Rules for Happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.”
― Immanuel Kant
The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.
– Ernest Hemingway
Why do you want to shut out of your life any uneasiness, any misery, any...
– Rainer Maria Rilke (via misswallflower)
If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying...
– Gustav Mahler (via splinter-eye)
2 tags
One of the greatest weaknesses in most of us is our lack of faith in ourselves.
– L. Tom Perry
The future, for me, is romantic, I don’t understand people who say the past is...
– Raf Simons (via nouveaumirai)
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"Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you...
Inspiration and genius - one and the same.
– Victor Hugo (via quote-book)
I modify to recreate myself. I modify so that when I look in the mirror, the...
– Joji Grey
If you can’t let go, you can’t put your heart back in your chest.
– I Wrote This For You: The View From The Hospital (via kari-shma)
Don’t let me get sappy on you, but when you get right down to it, every...
– Out of Oz, Gregory Maguire (via booklit)
This is what you shall do; Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise...
– Walt Whitman (via girlwithoutwings)