Bill Bernbach

An idea can turn to dust or magic,
depending on the talent that rubs against it.

Simon Van Booy

For those who are lost, there will always be cities that feel like home.

"a poem written by someone too bland to be immortalized in blood or ink." by (r.a.)

Poets write about about beauty,
they write about flaws and eccentricities,
and sunlight filtering through golden hair.
It’s ridiculous; it’s laughable -
what is beauty in the modern age?

When I went to the Louvre there was an entire room -
an entire room! -
full of newspaper covered in ink.
It was art and people stood too closely to it,
‘ooh’d’ and ‘ahh’d’ because they thought they were supposed to.

I don’t think I want to be something beautiful,
something comparable to newspaper clippings
dip-dyed in black ink, looking like the leftovers
of some toddler’s craft.

I want to be loved, I want to be fierce;
I want fire in my veins and ash on my lips,
but I don’t want to be poetry.

I want you in my arms, and attached to my lips.

Sometimes I tell myself
I'm okay.
I repeat it, like a mantra.
I'm okay, I'm okay, I'm okay, I'm okay.
Because I'm afraid
if I stop, even for a moment,
I will drown in all the reasons I am not.

You can break my soul
take my life away
beat me, hurt me, kill me
but for the love of God
don't touch
her/ him

"Show Me" by Alina Baraz ft. Galimatias

You got me so high
I can finally breathe

(https://m.soundcloud.com/alinabaraz/alina-baraz-galimatias-show-me)

Stephen Hawking

Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Be curious.

Avatar - Der Herr der Elemente

Peace: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ftScS4fLbQ

Accept the fact that you are not perfect and see how much easier it is to breathe.

MTV Teen Wolf, Motel California

Scott: It all started that night, the night I got bitten. Do you remember the way it was before that? You and me, we were... we were... we were nothing. We weren't popular. We weren't good at lacrosse. We weren't important. We were no one. Maybe I should just be no one again. No one at all.

Stiles: Scott, just listen to me, okay? You're not no one. Okay? You're someone, you're... Scott, you're my best friend. Okay? And I need you. Scott, you're my brother. All right, so... so if you're gonna do this, then... I think you're just gonna have to take me with you.

"A Series of Unfortunate Events" by Lemony Snicket

It is a curious thing, the death of a loved one. It's like walking up the stairs to your bedroom in the dark and thinking there is one more stair than there is. Your foot falls down through the air and there's a sickly moment of dark surprise.

Brigitte Nicole

One of the most courageous decisions you will ever make is to finally let go of whatever is hurting your heart and soul.

Igor Henrique

I'm so good at sleeping.

r.m. drake

loving me will not be easy.
it will be war. you will
hold the gun and i will hand
you the bullets. so breathe,
and embrace the beauty of
the massacre that lies ahead.

Stephan Labossiere

Some people don't realize what they have until it's gone, but hat does not always mean they are supposed to get it back.

Coco Chanel

I don't care what you think about me. I
don't think about you at all.

Dalai Lama

He said, "There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done. One is called yesterday and the other is called tomorrow, so today is the right day to love, believe, do and mostly live."

"The Ice Palace and Other Stories" by F. Scott Fitzgerald

I'm not sure what I'll do - well, I want to go to places and see people.

Rae, My Mad Fat Diary

There are times when I can’t stop speaking, when a million words leave my mouth in a matter of seconds… a million words that mean nothing… but when I want to find some words that mean everything, I just can’t speak. Like: I miss you. Like: I love you. Like: My world is falling apart and I need you by my side.

John Green

So often we try to make other people feel better by minimizing their pain, by telling them that it will get better (which it will) or that there are worse things in the world (which there are). But that’s not what I actually needed. What I actually needed was for someone to tell me that it hurt because it mattered. I have found this very useful to think about over the years, and I find that it is a lot easier and more bearable to be sad when you aren’t constantly berating yourself for being sad.

Joss Whedon

When I say, “I love you,” it’s not because I want you or because I can’t have you. It has nothing to do with me. I love what you are, what you do, how you try. I’ve seen your kindness and your strength. I’ve seen the best and the worst of you. And I understand with perfect clarity exactly what you are.

I am like the winter,
cold, lonely and dead on the inside,
strong winds warp my thoughts
and I feel like I can't breathe.

You are like the summer,
warm, beautiful and bright.
You're the sun that slowly rises
and calms the storm inside my head.

Robin Williams

I think the saddest people always try their hardest to make people happy
because they know what it’s like to feel absolutely worthless
and they don’t want anyone else to feel like that.

"Could Have" by Wislawa Szymborska

It could have happened.
It had to happen.
It happened earlier. Later.
Nearer. Farther off.
It happened, but not to you.
You were saved because you were the first.
You were saved because you were the last.
Alone. With others.
On the right. The left.
Because it was raining. Because of the shade.
Because the day was sunny.

You were in luck -- there was a forest.
You were in luck -- there were no trees.
You were in luck -- a rake, a hook, a beam, a brake,
A jamb, a turn, a quarter-inch, an instant . . .

So you're here? Still dizzy from
another dodge, close shave, reprieve?
One hole in the net and you slipped through?
I couldn't be more shocked or
speechless.
Listen,
how your heart pounds inside me.

London Spy, 2015

Alex: Are you okay?

Danny: Me? I'm fine. You don't know me but if you did you'd know that I'm always fine.

Stiles Stilinski, MTV Teen Wolf

Everyone should have a dream, even a pathetically unrealistic one.

Glennon Doyle Melton

I still get very high and very low in life. Daily. But I’ve finally accepted the fact that sensitive is just how I was made, that I don’t have to hide it and I don’t have to fix it. I’m not broken.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

For what it's worth: It's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of, and if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over.

incandescentghost, wnq-writer

There are days when I'm inexplicably sad, when my silence is louder than words, when my eyes see past you into the dark abyss of my own heart, but don't worry. All you have to do is hold me, and I'll come back to you.

"No Exit And Three Other Plays" by Jean-Paul Sartre

There are some memories one does not share.

"All You Own Is Yourself" by Rupi Kaur

Let it go, let it leave, let it happen. Nothing in this world was promised or belonged to you anyway.

Oscar Wilde

I think it's very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person.

If you find yourself constantly trying to prove your worth to someone, you have already forgotten your value.

Narcos, 2015

Magical realism is defined as what happens when a highly detailed, realistic setting is invaded by something too strange to believe.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Why don't you tell
me that "if the girl
had been worth
having, she'd have
waited for you"? No,
sir, the girl really
worth having won't
wait for anybody.

Elsie De Wolfe

I am going to make everything around me beautiful - that will be my life.

The Joker

Why should I apologize for the monster I’ve become? No one ever apologized for making me this way.

"Helen of Troy" by Edward holcroft

https://soundcloud.com/edwardholcroft/helen-of-troy

William Chapman

I’ll be anything you want me to be, as long as I can still be me.

Brigitte Nicole

Be with someone who is proud of you, someone you can laugh with, someone who listens to you, understands you, who treats you well and makes you a priority.

"Wait For It" - Hamilton the Musical

Death doesn't discriminate
between the sinners and the saints,
it takes and it takes and it takes
and we keep living anyway.
We rise and we fall
and we break
and we make our mistakes.
And if there's a reason I'm still alive
when everyone who loves me has died
I'm willing to wait for it.
I'm willing to wait for it.
Wait for it.

I'm not falling behind or running late.

I'm not standing still,
I am lying in wait.

when the world ends I want to scream
into the chaos that I loved you more
than anything...
...in hopes that the sound will echo
and continue to exist after everything
stops

A Beautiful Mind, 2001

Perhaps it is good to have a beautiful mind, but an even greater gift is to discover a beautiful heart.

-John Nash

I will fight for you but I will not compete.

"The Voice of the Body" by Alexander Lowen

It is a grave injustice to a child or adult to insist that they stop crying. One can comfort a person who is crying which enables him to relax and makes further crying unnecessary; but to humiliate a crying child is to increase his pain, and augment his rigidity. We stop other people from crying because we cannot stand the sounds and movements of their bodies. It threatens our own rigidity. It induces similar feelings in ourselves which we dare not express and it evokes a resonance in our own bodies which we resist.

"Bad Behavior" by Mary Gaitskill

She was delicately morbid in all her gestures, sensitive, arrogant, vulnerable to flattery. She veered between extravagant outbursts of opinion and sudden, uncertain halts, during which she seemed to look to him for approval. She was in love with the idea of intelligence, and she overestimated her own. Her sense of the world, though she presented it aggressively, could be, he sensed, snatched out from under her with little or no trouble.

Iain Thomas

And then my soul saw you and it kind of went, 'Oh, there you are. I've been looking for you.'

Sleepy Hollow

Abbie: If you can't trust an angel, who can you trust?
Ichabod: Lucifer was an angel.

Charles Bukowski

We're all going to die. That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities. We are eaten up by nothing.

James Cole, 12 Monkeys

Everybody's got two wolves inside them. Both of them are starving. The one wolf is anger, envy, pride. The other one's truth, kindness. Every day they tear each other apart. But it's not the better wolf that wins. It's the one you feed.

Mark Twain

Die Zeit mag Wunden heilen,
aber sie ist eine miserable Kosmetikerin.

Ellen DeGeneres

When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important.

Eleonare Gualdi

Auf leisen Pfoten kommen sie wie Boten der Stille und sacht, ganz sacht schleichen sie sich in unser Herz und besetzen es für immer mit aller Macht.

"Der kleine Prinz" von Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Es ist so geheimnisvoll, das Land der Tränen.

Charles Bukowski

Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mcgkmyU63V1r3wk1zo1_1280.jpg

Lawless (2012)

It's not the violence that sets men apart, alright, it is the distance that he's prepared to go.

Vikings

Macht ist für die bestimmt, die bereit sind sich tief zu verbeugen... um sie aufzuheben.

John Milton

Lieber in der Hölle regieren als im Himmel dienen.

Dita Von Teese

You can be the ripest, juiciest peach in the world, and there's still going to be somebody who hates peaches.

Ich liebe dich. Nicht nur, weil du bist wie du bist,
sondern weil ich bin wie ich bin, wenn ich bei dir bin.

I love you not because of who you are
but because of who I am when I am with you.

"Tagesprogramm" von Hans Kruppa

Heute will ich
aus dem Rahmen fallen
und weich landen,
dann zu der Musik
in meinem Kopf
schön aus der Reihe tanzen,
mich zum Ausruhen
zwischen die Stühle setzen,
danach ein bisschen gegen
den Strom schwimmen,
unter allem Geschwätz
wegtauchen und
am Ufer der Phantasie
so lange den Sonnenschein
genießen, bis dem Ernst
des Lebens das Lachen
vergangen ist.

Si tu me cherches
je suis à l'ouest.

Robert Musil

Es hat keinen Sinn, Sorgen im Alkohol ertränken zu wollen, denn
Sorgen sind gute Schwimmer.

"Not A Bad Thing" by Justin Timberlake

And if you fall, you'll always land right in these arms
these arms of mine
so don't act like it's a bad thing to fall in love with me
you might look around to find your dreams come true, with me

Why is it a bad thing to lose touch with reality? Have you seen reality lately? It's terrible.

Malachai Parker, TVD

See, when your family decides that you're nothing but an irredeemable piece of trash, well, guess the best thing to do is prove them right, right?

Malachai Parker, TVD

...and  I’d like to live, frankly.
Because I didn’t get to do a lot of that
when everyone decided that I wasn’t worth it.

Christopher Poindexter

She buried
her ears
into the calm
of his heartbeat,
and in a matter of seconds:
fell terribly in love
with the way
her loneliness fell
softly and suddenly,
asleep,
in his chest.

Christopher Poindexter

I loved her, not for the way
she danced with my angels but
for the way the sound of her
name could silence my demons.

Modern Warfare 2

Revenge is like a ghost. It takes over every man it touches. Its thirst cannot be quenched. Until the last man standing has fallen.

"Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine and Other Essays" by D. H. Lawrence

Power is much more obvious in its destructive than its constructive activity. A tree falls with a crash. It grew without a sound.

Anthony Bourdain

Travel isn't always pretty. It isn't always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that's okay. The journey changes you – it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you... Hopefully, you leave something good behind.

"Preface to Lyrical Ballads" by William Wordsworth (1802)

All good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings.

"The Change" by Beau Taplin

Losing you changed me. I've been quiet and quick-tempered. And when I'm shown concern I'm blunt or allusive. I avoid my friends. Drink too much. And I don't recall when I last felt moved by someone. I lost you. That I understood. I just didn't think I'd lose me too.

"Rise and Shine" by Beau Taplin

Rise and shine.

I've always held such fondness for that sweet old phrase. 

  As though we are all little suns. 

  As though we are all someone's day.

Lucifer (2015)

Don't know.
Don't care.
Not my problem, brother.

- Lucifer Morningstar

"White Apples" by Jonathan Carroll

Real love is always chaotic. You lose control; you lose perspective. You lose the ability to protect yourself. The greater the love, the greater the chaos. It's a given and that's the secret.

"my blade is red, and i have come to take your crown" by k.s.

you call me child,
you call me weak,
you call me naive,
oh, but sweetheart, i am a goddess,
my blood is made of stardust,
and my heart of burning flames,
i have the strength of a warrior,
and the mind of a wise man,
you thought you could lock me in your grasp,
but my sword is sharp,
and your grip loose,
and this is how i become the queen.

"The Complete Short Stories" by Ernest Hemingway

You're beautiful. You walk wonderfully and if I were here and saw you now for the first time I'd be in love with you. If I saw you for the first time everything would turn over inside of me and I'd ache right through my chest.

Tatiana Maslany

Having a strong female character doesn't mean she's beyond suffering and fragility… That to me is strong writing for women.

Sylvia Plath

August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time.

If I cut you off, chances are, you handed me the scissors.

Daniel Franceze

You either like me or you don't. It took me twenty-something years to learn how to love myself, I don't have that kinda time to convince somebody else.

Michael Biondi

Our bodies were printed as blank pages to be filled with the ink of our hearts.

I thought
Surely you were loved
In grand gestures and loving caresses
With all the beauty of small roses and hungry kisses.
To the great distances of brightly burning stars
I thought
Surely you were loved
And so I went very quiet
Until you went away
Thinking
Surely I did not love you.

-(found on tumblr)

"Erasing Faith" by Julie Johnson

Did you ever stop to think that even if I am a monster, I might be your soulmate anyway?

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me. I love you for the part of me that you bring out.

Dr. Seuss

We're all a little weird and life is weird,
and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness and call it true love.

Charles Bukowski

Love breaks my bones and I laugh.

"Beloved" by Toni Morrison

She is a friend of mind.
She gather me, man.
The pieces I am,
she gather them
and give them back to me
in all the right order.
It’s good, you know,
when you got a woman
who is a friend of your mind…

"The Post-Office Girl" by Stefan Zweig

Time to leave now, get out of this room, go somewhere, anywhere; sharpen this feeling of happiness and freedom, stretch your limbs, fill your eyes, be awake, wider awake, vividly awake in every sense and every pore.

"Ruin and Rising" by Leigh Bardugo

Beauty was your armor. Fragile stuff, all show. But what's inside you? That's steel. It's brave and unbreakable. And it doesn't need fixing.

Dwayne Johnson (The Rock)

Being a true bad ass has no weight or gender requirement - just 100% commitment to greatness.

Jean de La Fontaine

Rare as is true love,
true friendship is rarer.

Soul Eater, Intro

Eine gesunde Seele wohnt in einem gesunden Geist und in einem gesunden Körper.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.

Albert Camus

Go out for a walk. It doesn’t have to be a romantic walk in the park… It doesn’t have to be a walk during which you’ll have multiple life epiphanies and discover meanings no other brain ever managed to encounter. Do not be afraid of spending quality time by yourself… That doesn’t make you antisocial or cause you to reject the rest of the world. But you need to breathe. And you need to be.

Elie Borowski

The future of mankind has its roots in the past, and only through understanding our history can we build a better future.

Nizar Qabbani

The female doesn’t want a rich man or a handsome man or even a poet, she wants a man who understands her eyes if she gets sad, and points to his chest and say : "Here is your home country."

William Leal

It's all messy:
The hair. The bed.
The words. The heart.
Life.

"Der Besuch der alten Dame" von Friedrich Dürrenmatt

Die Welt machte mich zu einer Hure,
nun mache ich sie zu einem Bordell.

-Claire Zachanassian

Nietzsche

Für einen guten Ruf zahlt man
gewöhnlich zu viel - nämlich
sich selber.

"The Undomestic Goddess" by Sophie Kinsella

You don't always have to
know who you are.
You don't have to
have the big picture.
Sometimes it's enough
just to know what you're going
to do next.

Stephen King

Books are uniquely portable magic.

N. T.

You are meant to fight. When you are sick, your body fights for its right to function. When you hold your breath, your body fights for its right to breathe. There are billions of tiny events—from the surface of your skin, down to the very cells of your body—that have to happen in order for you to be simply sitting here today. If your most minuscule parts haven’t given up yet,

Why should you?

Friedrich Nietzsche

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The traveler sees what he sees,
the tourist sees what he has come to see.

Gerd Mattenklott

Man will auf Reisen
gerne mehr sein als nur
man selbst, man will ein
anderer sein.

Francis Bacon

Travel,
in the younger sort,
is a part of education;
in the elder,
a part of experience.

J.G. Hamann

When I rest my feet
my mind also ceases
to function.

Alessandro Morandotti

L'unico viaggio irrinunciabile è l'esplorazione dell'io.

Hans-Horst Skupy

Urlaubsgepäck –
gebündelte Illusionen.

Pacey Witter, Dawson’s Creek

Wanna know something, Miss Josephine Potter? I think the world may just surprise you yet. I mean, you fall in love, it doesn’t work out and you think that it’ll never happen again. But it does. Believe me, it does. In the strangest of places.

Anne Sexton

Watch out for intellect, because it knows so much it knows nothing and leaves you hanging upside down, mouthing knowledge as your heart falls out of your mouth.

Apparently, people get offended when you treat them the way they treated you.

"The Evil We Love" by Cassandra Clare

"What about you? Do you think you know what it would feel like?"
"Love?" Michael smiled down at his hands. "Love, real love, is being seen. Being known. Knowing the ugliest part of someone, and loving them anyway. And ... I guess I think two people in love become something else, something more than the sum of their parts, you know? That it must be like you're creating a new world that exists just for the two of you. You're gods of your own pocket universe." He laughed a little then, as if h felt foolish. "That must sound ridiculous."
"No," Robert said, the truth dawning over him.

Mark Twain

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. Sail away from the safe harbor. Explore. Dream. Discover.

Nietzsche

We have left the land and have embarked. We have burned our bridges behind us –indeed, we have gone farther and destroyed the land behind us. Now, little ship, look out! Beside you is the ocean: to be sure, it does not always roar, and at times it lies spread out like silk and gold and reveries of graciousness. But hours will come when you realize that it is infinite and that there is nothing more awesome than infinity. Oh, the poor bird that felt free now strikes the walls of this cage! Woe, when you feel homesick for the land as if it had offered more freedom–and there is no longer any "land."

Wie der Wind sich hebt (2013)

Le vent se lève, il faut tenter de vivre.

Der Wind hebt sich, wir müssen versuchen zu leben.

William Shakespeare

Your lips are like wine, and I like to get drunk.

"Deadhouse Gates" by Steven Erikson

Why do we cling to what we lose while we ignore what we still hold?

Ernest Hemingway

I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake.

Serbian Proverb

Be humble for you are made of earth.
Be noble for you are made of stars.

Niklaus Mikaelson, TVD

He's your first love,
I intend to be your last..
however long it takes.

Albert Camus

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

Captain Jack Sparrow

The problem is not the problem.
The problem is your attitude about the problem.
Do you understand?

Der Herr der Ringe: Die Gefährten, 2001

Ein Zauberer kommt nie zu spät,
ebenso wenig wie zu früh.
Er trifft genau dann ein,
wann er es beabsichtigt.

-Gandalf

In Your Eyes, 2014

The best thing -the only thing about me
that I like.. is you.

-Dylan

Chris Golfer

There is nothing
wrong with you.
There's a lot wrong with
the world you live in.

Ernest Gaines

Why is it that
as a culture, we are
more comfortable
seeing two men
holding guns,
than holding hands?

Hayao Miyazaki

Many of my movies have strong female leads -
brave, self-sufficient girls that don't think twice about
fighting for what they believe in with all their heart.
They'll need a friend, or a supporter, but never a savior.
Any woman is just capable of being a hero as any man.

Joanne K. Rowling

All these people saying they never got their Hogwarts letter: you got the letter. You went to Hogwarts. We were all there together.
Of course it happened inside your head, but why on earth should that mean it wasn't real.

Erin Hanson

There is freedom waiting for you, on the breezes of the sky.
And you ask "What if I fall?"
Oh but my darling, What if you fly?

Traditional Celtic marriage vows

You cannot possess me for I belong to myself
But while we both wish it, I give you that which is mine to give
You cannot command me, for I am a free person
But I shall serve you in those ways you require
and the honeycomb will taste sweeter coming from my hand.

I pledge to you that yours will be the name I cry aloud in the night.
And the eyes into which I smile in the morning.
I pledge to you the first bite from my meat,
And the first drink from my cup.
I pledge to you my living and dying, equally in your care,
And tell no strangers our grievances.
This is my wedding vow to you.
This is a marriage of equals.

And beyond this, I will cherish and honor you through this life,
and into the next.

Nizar Qabbani

The most dangerous heart disease: Strong memory.

"The Unwritten Rule" by Elizabeth Scott

I'm broken, I have cut myself wide open. I can see my heart and it is not what I believed it was, it is not good and kind and all the things I have always thought I am.

Tom Hiddleston

RESPONSIBILITY IS POWER.
TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE
CONSEQUENCES OF YOUR ACTIONS,
AND THE WORLD IS YOURS.
EVERYTHING IS A CHOICE.

Tom Hiddleston

The best revenge against bullies is absolutely, resolutely, never to let them change who you are. Know that whatever bullies say or do - it comes from their weakness, not yours.

Tom Hiddleston

LIFE IS GENERALLY PRETTY DAMN AMAZING IF YOU LET IT BE.

Tom Hiddleston

Never, ever, let anyone tell you what you can and can’t do. Prove the cynics wrong. Pity them for they have no imagination. The sky’s the limit. Your sky. Your limit. Now. Let’s dance.

"Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Bronte

Why, then, should we ever sink overwhelmed with distress, when life is so soon over, and death is so certain an entrance to happiness - to glory?

Sometimes the people around you won’t understand your journey. They don’t have to, it’s not for them.

Henry David Thoreau

What lies ahead of us and what lies behind us are small matters compared to what lies within us. And when you bring what is within out into the world, miracles happen.

Dave Willis

Be an encourager.
The world has plenty of critics already.

Kid President

Give people a high five just for getting out of bed in the morning, being a person is hard sometimes.

Confidence isn’t walking into a room with your nose in the air, and thinking you are better than everyone else, it’s walking into a room and not having to compare yourself with anyone in the first place.

Harvey Specter, SUITS

Would you like me to thank your face with my fist?

find someone
who knows
you're sad
just by the change
of tone in your
voice

be with someone
who loves the
feature that
you hate the most

fall in love with
someone who
looks at you and
knows they don't
want anyone else

The Mad Hatter, OUAT

You know what the issue is with this world..
Everyone wants some magical solution for their problem...
And everyone refuses to believe in magic.

"The Gift: Poems by Hafez the Great Sufi Master" by Daniel Ladinsky

Even after all this time
the sun never says to the earth,
you owe me.
Look what happens with a love like that.
It lights the whole sky.

Wiz Khalifa

Never make
permanent decisions on
temporary feelings.

Sì

Sì alla forza
Sì alla libertà
Sì ai sogni
Sì all'amore
Sì a me stessa



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"The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human" by Jonathan Gottschall

Most people think of fiction as a wildly creative art form. But this just shows how much creativity is possible inside a prison.

"The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human" by Jonathan Gottschall

Memories are often pruned and shaped by an ego-enhancing bias that blurs the edges of past events, softens culpability, and distorts what really happened.

"The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human" by Jonathan Gottschall

As the video game designer and writer James Wallis puts it, “Human beings like stories. Our brains have a natural affinity not only for enjoying narratives and learning from them but also for creating them. In the same way that your mind sees an abstract pattern and resolves it into a face, your imagination sees a pattern of events and resolves it into a story.

"The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human" by Jonathan Gottschall

The storytelling mind is allergic to uncertainty, randomness, and coincidence. It is addicted to meaning. If the storytelling mind cannot find meaningful patterns in the world, it will try to impose them. In short, the storytelling mind is a factory that churns out true stories when it can, but will manufacture lies when it can’t.

"The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human" by Jonathan Gottschall

We are, as a species, addicted to story. Even when the body goes to sleep, the mind stays up all night, telling itself stories.

"Jakob der Knecht" von Isaac Bashevis Singer

Was trägt ein weißes Kleid,
Ist schwarz die Läng und Breit,
Bleibt sprechend stumm allzeit?

Antwort: Brief.

Oscar Wilde

Am Ende wird alles gut!
Wenn es nicht gut ist,
ist es noch nicht
das Ende!

Dear 6,

please stop spreading
rumors about me
eating 9. You
shouldn't be talking.
I hear you guys do
some pretty nasty
things.

Sincerely,
7

Mark Twain

You can't depend on your eyes
when your imagination
is out of focus.

The best love is the one that makes you a better person,
without changing you into someone other than yourself.

"You Learn" by Jorge Luis Borges

After a while you learn the subtle difference
Between holding a hand and chaining a soul,

And you learn that love doesn’t mean leaning
And company doesn’t mean security.

And you begin to learn that kisses aren’t contracts
And presents aren’t promises,

And you begin to accept your defeats
With your head up and your eyes open
With the grace of a woman, not the grief of a child,

And you learn to build all your roads on today
Because tomorrow’s ground is too uncertain for plans
And futures have a way of falling down in mid-flight.

After a while you learn…
That even sunshine burns if you get too much.

So you plant your garden and decorate your own soul,
Instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.

And you learn that you really can endure…

That you really are strong

And you really do have worth…

And you learn and learn…

With every good-bye you learn.

August Rush (2007)

The music is all around us... all we have to do.. is listen.

“You can’t love someone unless you love yourself first.”
Bullshit.
I have never loved myself.
But you
Oh god, I loved you so much
I forgot what hating myself felt like.

-(found on tumblr)

"Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury

Stuff your eyes with wonder, he said, live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.

Robert Downey Jr.

Listen, smile, agree.
And then do whatever
the fuck you were
gonna do anyway.

"Alice in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll

I can't go back to yesterday because I was a different person then.

"I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

"The Retribution of Mara Dyer" by Michelle Hodkin

[ “As I was saying. He could never use you. You own him. You should’ve seen the way he was looking at you while you were out.”
I smiled a little. “How?” ]

“Like you’re the ocean and he’s desperate to drown.”

"The Retribution of Mara Dyer" by Michelle Hodkin

Je t'aime. Aujourd'hui. Ce soir. Demain. Pour toujours. Si je vivais mille ans, je t'appartiendrais pour tous. Si je vivais mille vies, je te ferais mienne dans chacune d'elles.



I love you. Today. Tonight. Tomorrow. Forever. If I were to live a thousand years, I would belong to you for all of them. If I were to live a thousand lives, I would want to make you mine in each one.

Leslie Feinberg

People of all sexes have the right to explore femininity, masculinity–and the infinite variations between–without criticism or ridicule.

"Selected Poems" (1965-1975) by Margaret Atwood

I exist in two places,
here and where you are.

Folk saying

The wolf may be weaker than the lion and the bear, but he never plays in circus.

Aristotle

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

"Judge Not" by Bob Marley

Who are you to judge me
the life that I live?
I know I'm not perfect
and that I don't claim to be.
So before you point your fingers,
be sure your hands are clean.

Judge not
before you judge yourself.
Judge not
if you're not ready for judgement.

In life you will meet two kinds of people. Ones who build you up, and ones who tear you down. But in the end, you will thank both of them.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The world of reality hat its limits;
the world of imagination is boundless.

Marilyn Monroe

We should all start to live before we get too old. Fear is stupid. So are regrets.

Salvador Dalí

Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

Charles Bukowski

I take much pleasure in being alone
but there is also a strange warm grace in not being alone.

Either come closer or stay away,
having you in between is very exhausting.

Augusten Burroughs

Stars should not be seen alone. That's why there are so many. Two people should stand together and look at them. One person alone will surely miss the good ones.

Possessive love says I will only love you and care about you if you’re mine.
True love says "I will always love you, from this lifetime to every lifetime after, regardless of who you’re with or what you’ve done. I will never stop caring about you."
I can honestly say, I truly love you, because here I am praying for your happiness even though you took away mine and moved on.

Mary Kate Teske

I go through phases. Some days I feel like the person I’m supposed to be, and then some days I turn into no one at all. There is both me and my silhouette. I hope that on the days you find me and all I am are darkened lines, you still are willing to be near me.

Out of my mind.
Be back in five minutes.

Just because you are a drama queen
doesn't mean I'm going to treat you like royalty.

Geburtstagswünsche

Das Leben ist so bunt,
wie man es sich ausmalt.
Genieße jeden Augenblick!

Joanne Clancy

Be the kind of woman
that when your feet hit the floor each morning
the devil says: "Oh crap, she's up."

DEr fRÜHe VOGel KanN MiCh mAL!

"City of Heavenly Fire" by Cassandra Clare

I was going to kill someone today. I just wasn't sure who when I woke up this morning. I do love mornings. So full of possibilities!

The best kind of friendships are fierce lady friendships where you aggressively believe in each other, defend each other, and think the other deserves the world.

Ernest Hemingway

He said, "Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste the food when you eat, and when you sleep really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

Marvel's Daredevil, 2015

In my experience
there are no heroes,
no villains –
just people with different agendas.

Caroline Forbes, TVD

Now why would I do that
when I could look like whoever
I want you to see?

"Muss ich irgendwas mitbringen?"
"Nur gute Laune."

Hab dann abgesagt.

Robert Frost

We love the things we love for what they are.

Fran Lebowitz

My favourite animal is steak.

Proverb

The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

William Blake

No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.

General Douglas MacArthur

We are not retreating – we are advancing in another direction.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

The only fear we have to fear is fear itself.

Albert Einstein

A clever person solves a problem.
A wise person avoids it.

Gloria Steinem

The truth will set you free,
but first it will piss you off.

Thomas A. Edison

I have not failed. I've just found 10.000 ways that won't work.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight – it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent.

William Shakespeare

Be not afraid of greatness.
Some are born great, some achieve greatness and
some have greatness thrust upon them.

Oscar Wilde

Always forgive your enemies;
nothing annoys them so much.

Oscar Wilde

We are all in the gutter,
but some of us are looking at the stars.

Alfred Tennyson

It is better to have loved and lost
than never to have loved at all.

W. C. Fields

I am free of all prejudice.
I hate everyone equally.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Do what you feel in your heart to be right
– for you'll be criticized anyway.

William Somerset Maugham

The love that lasts the longest is the love that is never returned.

Washington Irving

Great minds have purposes, other have wishes.

Albert Einstein

The difference between genius and stupidity: genius has its limits.

Dr. Seuss

You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.

Maya Angelou

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
but by the moments that take our breath away.

Bruce Lee

The key to immortality is
first to live a life worth remembering.

Lance Armstrong

Pain is temporary,
quitting lasts forever.

Winston S. Churchill

Success is not final,
failure is not fatal:
it is the courage to continue that counts.

Charles Dickens

There is nothing better than a friend,
unless it's a friend with chocolate.

Mae West

You only live once,
but if do it right,
once is enough.

Henry Kissinger

No one will ever win the battle of the sexes,
because there is too much fraternizing with the enemy.

Daniel Defoe

Pride is the first peer and
president of hell.

Joan Crawford

Love is a fire.
But whether it is going to warm your heart
or burn down your house
you can never tell.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Everybody pities the weak,
jealousy you have to earn.

Kurt Cobain

Wanting to be someone else
is a waste
of the person you are.

Mark Twain

Go to heaven for the climate
and hell for the company.

Muhammad Ali

The man who has no imagination
has no wings.

Oscar Wilde

We are our own devil
and we make this world our hell.

Gillian Anderson’s advice for young feminists

Above anything else, stay true to yourself. Whether that means for you that you like to have blue hair, or you don’t like to drink, or you are attracted to the same sex, or you want to remove yourself from Facebook, or you’ve got 3 different kids from 3 different dads but you know you’re a really good mom, or you cry for a week because your turtle died. Whatever your truth is, stay true to yourself. But be a good person while you’re at it.

Friedrich Nietzsche

And those who were seen
dancing
were thought to be insane
by those
who could not hear
the music.

Alice Walker

The most
common way
people give up
their power is
by thinking they
don't have any.

"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling

We’re all human, aren’t we?
Every human life is worth the same,
and worth saving.

3/7/13

We cry over
Friends we will never have back
People we once loved
Bridges that have been burnt.
But there's a reason
The past is in the past.
You only have so much
Room in your life,
Save it for people who deserve it.
Chances are,
If someone's in the past,
They deserve to
Stay there.

- A. M.

"Either/ Or: A Fragment of Life" by Søren Kierkegaard

Do it or don't do it – you will regret both.

I'm not searching for my other half
because I'm not a half.

When it's over, leave.
Don't continue watering a dead flower.

Ragnar Lothbrok, Vikings

We are fated to die on a certain day
but it’s our own choice to do as we please
until that day comes.

"Tell Me" by Auriel Haack

Tell me when your hands start reaching for her throat instead of her clothes.
Tell me when ‘baby’ turns to ‘bitch’ on the tip of your tongue.
Tell me when goosebumps disappear with your touch, when you start making her skin crawl.
Tell me when you forget how to love her softly,
when you don’t remember how to say her name without spitting,
when you don’t know how to hold her without breaking her.
Tell me when you lose yourself to the monster,
so I can tell her what no one ever told me to do:
run.

"Miracles of Life" by J.G. Ballard

But it held a deeper meaning for me, the sense that reality

itself was a stage set that could be dismantled at any

moment, and that no matter how magnificent anthing

appeared, it could be swept aside into the debris of the past.

"Collected Poems" by W.H. Auden

He was my North, my South, my East and West,
My working week and my Sunday rest,
My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;
I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong.

"93 Percent Stardust" by Nikita Gill

We have calcium in our bones, iron in our veins,
carbon in our souls, and nitrogen in our brains.
93 percent stardust, with souls made of flames,
we are all just stars that have people names.

Marry someone who agrees that people sorted into Slytherin aren't evil.

(found on tumblr)

Daniel Radcliffe

I spent like 10 years of my life pretending to fly around on a broomstick and you’re asking me if preparing for a love scene was ‘tricky’ because the other person also had a penis?

Why stress over someone that
won't even text to see if you're
alright?

Mark Twain

Jeder Mensch ist ein Mond und hat eine dunkle Seite,
die er niemandem zeigt.

Daya Bhuteshu

No matter in what life we start,
soulmate,
in the end i’ll still hold the end
of the red twine
to your
heart;
leading yours to mine.

to not forget myself
when the morning comes,
and
to not lose myself
when the night comes

Spencer Reid, Criminal Minds

Evil can't be scientifically defined. It's an illusory moral concept
that doesn't exist in nature.
Its origins and connotations have been
inextricably linked to religion and mythology.

Drake

Anytime you're afraid to try some new shit...
just remember,
amateurs built the ark,
professionals built the Titanic.

Henry Rollins

I don’t want people to matter to me too much. Sometimes it hurts too much to think about them. Ones you love who don’t love you, ones who are dead or hate you, ones who you think about but never get to be with. I like people but when I get too close, it fucks me up and I can’t get things done.

"Lurk" by The Neighbourhood

I want to be honest
I want to be bad
I want to destroy you
I want to move fast
I want the attention
I want all the cash
I want all the ass
Is it too much to ask?

I want to be faithful
I want to be raw
I want to be ignorant
I want to know it all
I want to die someday
I want to live long
I want what I ask for
I get what I want

( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6V5Rv6aSnM )

Choose me or lose me. I'm not a back-up plan and definitely not a second choice.

You have to learn to say no without feeling guilty. Setting boundaries is healthy. Respecting and taking care of yourself are crucial in life.

Olivia Benson, Law & Order

Arousal does not mean consent.

I do not spew profanities. I enunciate them clearly, like a fucking lady.

vellichor

n.// the strange wistfulness of used bookstores, which are somehow infused with the passage of time—filled with thousands of old books you’ll never have time to read, each of which is itself locked in its own era, bound and dated and papered over like an old room the author abandoned years ago, a hidden annex littered with thoughts left just as they were on the day they were captured.

- The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrow

liberosis

n.// the desire to care less about things—to loosen your grip on your life, to stop glancing behind you every few steps, afraid that someone will snatch it from you before you reach the end zone—rather to hold your life loosely and playfully, like a volleyball, keeping it in the air, with only quick fleeting interventions, bouncing freely in the hands of trusted friends, always in play.

- The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrow

"Diary" by Chuck Palahniuk

It’s so hard to forget pain, but it’s even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.

Date someone who will tap 

your butt playfully and do

the dishes with you after 

dinner.

Date someone who knows 

the power of running their 

hands through your hair.

Date someone who wants 

you to succeed as much as 

they want their own success.

Date someone who knows

how you take your coffee 

and what cheers you up.

Date someone who you can 

be independent from but still 

look forward to reuniting 

with.

"The Truth About Growing Up A Woman" by Michelle K.

As women, we are taught to be tiny. To have small bodies, to never be imposing. The ideal of our gender are thin and childlike, hairless and dainty. We are defined by our bodies; defined by our control over them. We are taught to obsess over our physicality and to be repulsed by our desires and intelligences.
We are taught to walk scared late at night. We cradle our keys between our perfectly manicured fingers, walking gracefully like a baby antelope in a herd of lions. That our virginity defines our character. That I am a frigid bitch if I do not fuck him, and a dirty slut if I do.

"100 Love Sonnets" by Pablo Neruda

I love you as
certain dark things
are to be loved,
in secret, between
the shadow and
the soul.

Reinhold Niebuhr

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Sirius Black, Harry Potter

I want you to listen to me very carefully, Harry. You’re not a bad person. You’re a very good person, who bad things have happened to. Besides, the world isn’t split into good people and Death Eaters. We’ve all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That’s who we really are.

Nora Ephron

Whatever you choose, however many roads you travel, I hope that you choose not to be a lady. I hope you will find some way to break the rules and make a little trouble out there. And I also hope that you will choose to make some of that trouble on behalf of women.

Clara Oswald, Doctor Who

Listen. Listen. This is just a dream. But very clever people can hear dreams. So please, just listen. I know you're afraid. But being afraid is all right. Because didn't anybody ever tell you? Fear is a super power. Fear can make you faster, and cleverer, and stronger. And one day, you're going to come back to this barn, and on that day, you're going to be very afraid indeed. But that's okay. Because if you're very wise and very strong, fear doesn't have to make you cruel or cowardly. Fear can make you kind. It doesn't matter if there's nothing under the bed, or in the dark, so long as you know it's okay to be afraid of it. So listen. If you listen to nothing else, listen to this. You're always going to be afraid, even if you learn to hide it. Fear is like...a companion. A constant companion, always there. But that's okay, because fear can bring us together. Fear can bring you home. I'm going to leave you something, just so you'll always remember -- fear makes companions of us all.

"Ewige Sehnsucht" von Christian Morgenstern

Wenn Gott nicht die ewige Sehnsucht zweier Seelen zueinander ist –
wenn die Welt nicht der ewige Weg zu dieser zweier Sellen ist – so weiß ich
nicht, was Gott und Welt nicht bedeuten.

Spätsommer 1908


(aus:  Christian Morgenstern, Werke und Briefe, Band 5: Aphorismen, Weltbild: Episode, Tagebuch eines Mystikers. Stuttgarter Ausgabe, Verlag Urachaus, Stuttgart 1987.)

"Briefwechsel mit Dagny" von Christian Morgenstern

09. Mai 1899
Wenn ich Ihnen einen Wunsch zum Vermächtnis geben dürfte, so wäre es dieser:
Lernen Sie gross zu empfinden!

Pünktlichkeit

...ist die Kunst richtig abzuschätzen, um wie viel sich der andere verspäten wird.

A kaleidoscope of memories

I think... I think when it's all over it just comes back in flashes, you know? It's like a kaleidoscope of memories; it just all comes back. But he never does. I think part of me knew the second I saw him that this would happen. It's not really anything he said, or anything he did ― it was the feeling that came along with it. Crazy thing is, I don't know if I'm ever going to feel that way again. But I don't know if I should. I knew his world moved too fast and burned too bright, but I just thought, 'How can the devil be pulling you toward someone who looks so much like an angel when he smiles at you?' Maybe he knew that when he saw me. I guess I just lost my balance. I think that the worst part of it all wasn't losing him. It was losing me.

- Taylor Swift


(first seen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVZG8BInfYs)

Isak Dinesen

The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea.

Abbey Lee Kershaw

I like people with depth, I like people with emotion, I like people with a strong mind, an interesting mind, a twisted mind, and also people that can make me smile.

Ivan Turgenev

We’re young, we’re not monsters, no fools: we’ll conquer happiness for ourselves.

"Fragen" von Erich Fried

Wie groß ist dein Leben?
Wie tief?
Was kostet es dich?
Bis wann zahlst du?
Wieviel Türen hat es?
Wie oft
hast du ein neues begonnen?

Warst du schon einmal
gezwungen um es zu laufen?
Wenn ja
bist du rundherum gelaufen
im Kreis oder hast du
Einbuchtungen mitgelaufen?
Was dachtest du dir dabei?

Woran erkanntest du
daß du ganz herum warst?
Bist du mehrmals gelaufen?
War das dritte Mal
wie das zweite?

Würdest du lieber
die Strecke im Wagen fahren?
oder gefahren werden?
in welcher Richtung?
Von wem?

"Frau Welt" von Erich Fried

Ich bin
zur Welt gekommen
und bin nun endlich
so weit
laut zu fragen
wie ich dazukomme
zu ihr zu kommen

Sie kommt
und sagt leise:
Du kommst nicht
du bist schon im Gehen

"Was es ist" von Erich Fried

Es ist Unsinn
sagt die Vernunft
Es ist was es ist
sagt die Liebe

Es ist Unglück
sagt die Berechnung
Es ist nichts als Schmerz
sagt die Angst
Es ist aussichtslos
sagt die Einsicht
Es ist was es ist
sagt die Liebe

Es ist lächerlich
sagt der Stolz
Es ist leichtsinnig
sagt die Vorsicht
Es ist unmöglich
sagt die Erfahrung
Es ist was es ist
sagt die Liebe

Robert Alton Harris

You can be a king or a street sweeper, but everybody dances with the Grim Reaper.

"Do Not Fall In Love With People Like Me" by Caitlyn Siehl

Do not fall in love
With people like me.
people like me
will love you so hard
that you turn into stone
into a statue where people
come to marvel at how long
it must have taken to carve
that faraway look into your eyes

Do not fall in love with people like me
we will take you to
museums and parks
and monuments
and kiss you in every beautiful
place so that you can
never go back to them
without tasting us
like blood in your mouth

Do not come any closer.
people like me
are bombs
when our time is up
we will splatter loss
all over your walls
in angry colors
that make you wish
your doorway never
learned our name

do not fall in love
with people like me.
with the lonely ones
we will forget our own names
if it means learning yours
we will make you think
hurricanes are gentle
that pain is a gift
you will get lost
in the desperation
in the longing for something
that is always reaching
but never able to hold

do not fall in love
with people like me.
we will destroy your
apartment
we will throw apologies at you
that shatter on the floor
and cut your feet

we will never learn
how to be soft

we will leave.
we always do.

"I Wrote This For You" by Iain Thomas

All the hardest, coldest people you meet were once as soft as water. And that’s the tragedy of living.

William Shakespeare

When I saw you
I fell in love, and
you smiled
because you knew

Don’t let people treat you like a cigarette, they only use you when they’re bored and step on you when they’re done. Be like drugs, let them die for you.

"Beauty is.." by Emma Watson

Beauty is not long hair, skinny legs, tanned skin or perfect teeth. Believe me. Beauty is the face of who cried and now smiles, beauty is the scar on your knee since you fell when you were a kid, beauty is the circles when love doesn’t let you sleep, beauty is the expression on the face when the alarm rings in the morning, it’s the melted makeup when you have a shower, it’s the laughter when you make a joke you’re the only one who can understand, beauty is meeting his gaze and stopping understanding, beauty is your gaze when you see him, it’s when you cry for all you paranoias, beauty is the lines marked by time. Beauty is what we feel in the inside which also shows outside us. Beauty is the marks the life leaves on us, all the kicks and the caresses the memories leave us. Beauty is letting yourself live.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

And in the end, we were all just humans... drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness.

Jeremy Radin

Let me sleep, finally,
in the arms
of something beautiful.
Let me say my last
fuck yous
with honey in my mouth.

"Undress me" by Michael Faudet

All that you write,
         you know
         it's not right
         you move me
         with written suggestion.
I know it's absurd,
         to be undressed
         by a word,
         write me more
         write me more—
         make me yours.
   

African Proverb

If you want to go fast, go alone.
If you want to go far, go together.

You are so used to your features, you don’t know how beautiful you look to a stranger.

Kanye West

Someone will always be prettier.
Someone will always be smarter.
Someone will always be younger.
But they will never be you.

"The Time Traveler’s Wife" by Audrey Niffenegger

I’m living under water. Everything seems slow and far away. I know there’s a world up there, a sunlit quick world where time runs like dry sand through an hourglass, but down here, where I am, air and sound and time and feeling are thick and dense.

Giacomo Casanova

One who makes no mistakes
makes nothing at all.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement.

Find someone who makes you feel drunk when you're sober.

Elizabeth Scott

I want to care but I don't. I look at you and all I feel is tired.

Emerson

We must be our own before we can be another's.

Anais Nin

We don't see things as they are.
We see them as we are.

"Lolita" by Vladimir Nabokov

...and then there were times when I knew how you felt and it was hell to know it.

Tupac

You can spend minutes, hours, days, weeks or even months over-analyzing a situation; trying to put the pieces together, justifying what could've, would've happened
...or you can just leave the pieces on the floor and move the fuck on!

John Gardner

We read five words on the first page of a really good novel and we begin to forget that we are reading printed words on a page; we begin to see images.

Alan Watts

If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you’ll come to understand that you’re connected with everything.