April 2013
8 posts
“In the end there doesn’t have to be anyone who understands you. There just has...”
– Robert Brault (via creatingaquietmind)
“I am one of the searchers. There are, I believe, millions of us. We are not unhappy, but neither are we really content. We continue to explore life, hoping to uncover its ultimate secret. We continue to explore ourselves, hoping to understand. We like to walk along the beach, we are drawn by the ocean, taken by its power, its unceasing motion, its mystery and unspeakable beauty. We like forests...
“She was extending a hand that I didn’t know how to take, so I broke its fingers...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer (via creatingaquietmind)
“If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don’t be...”
– Maya Angelou (via creatingaquietmind)
“It wasn’t about believing this or that, it wasn’t even about good and evil and...”
– Mark Haddon from The Red House (via ingeniosa)
“My heart feels so heavy and I don’t know how to carry it.”
– Sharon Dogar, Annexed (via creatingaquietmind)
March 2013
19 posts
“Be reckless enough to gamble all or nothing to follow your dreams.”
– John Galliand
“Don’t ask yourself what you did wrong or how you could have done it differently....”
– Greg Behrendt, He’s Just Not That Into You (via creatingaquietmind)
“Like many people, I tend to get frantic when I think I might be abandoned again. I do destructive things: I hold on too tightly to whoever is in my at the moment; or I offer them a means of escape over and over again until they think I’m pushing them away. I’m so terrified of being left, and my core belief in that eventuality is so strong. When I realize how precious someone is to me, I give them...
“I’ve always been interested in people, but I’ve never liked them.”
– Henry James (via braineaterss)
i’ve mastered escapism.
i’ve been peering at my surroundings with a crystalized perception. i am not living in this world, but i am going through the motions of it all. i am present, but i am on auto pilot. and this is how i live my life; without you. numbness- it works. it makes the grey okay. distractions have become my salvation. work has become my floatation device....
“Everyone tells you what to do and what’s good for you. They don’t want you to...”
– Dan Millman, Way of the Peaceful Warrior (via creatingaquietmind)
“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without...”
– Aristotle (via talkingtokafka)
“If something burns your soul with purpose and desire, it’s your duty to be...”
– Charles Bukowski (via falso-graal)
“Nobody can save you but
Yourself
And you’re worth saving.
It’s a war not...”
– Charles Bukowski, “Nobody But You” (via middecember)
February 2013
15 posts
“If you spend too much time trying to find out what is good or bad about someone...”
– Paulo Coelho (via penseesduchoeur)
“He carries stars in his pockets because he knows she fears the dark. Whenever...”
– Alaska Gold (via cherry-stains)
I want a love like this.
“When you plant seeds in the garden, you don’t dig them up every day to see if...”
– Bhikshuni Thubten Chodron (via cosmofilius)
“I’ve never been very good at leaving things behind. I tried, but I have always...”
– Joanne Harris (via creatingaquietmind)
“In every walk with nature, one receives far more than he seeks.”
– John Muir (via wildexpeditions)
“nothing makes me happier, and nothing makes me sadder than you.”
– nicole krauss
December 2012
3 posts
“People will kill you over time, and how they’ll kill you is with tiny, harmless...”
– Dylan Moran (via Swanfeather Songs)
October 2012
5 posts
“If someone wants to be a part of your life, they’ll make an effort to be...”
“It’s a funny thing about coming home. Looks the same, smells the same, feels the...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (via blaqmagic) 