Neil Gaiman

May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you’re wonderful, and don’t forget to make some art – write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.

"Do Not Go Gentle Into That Goodnight" by Dylan Thomas

Do not go gentle
   into that good night.
Rage, rage against
   the dying of the light.

"Beekeeper" by Keaton Henson

You all say I've crossed a line,
But the sad fact is I've lost my mind

Cause I'm just getting started, let me offend
The devil's got nothing on me my friend
All I want is to be left alone

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHWJT7mo4I0)

Chris Wood

Being a gentleman is about respecting people. Treating your friends like family, keeping a cool head in moments of chaos, taking care of your partner. Prioritize your needs with others' needs, and tend to theirs as often as you can. Be sympathetic. Know what's going on in the world. Care. Don't strive to be an alpha male, just be you. And be you quietly. Don't tell people what a gentleman you are, lead by example.

"i am a woman" by A. J.

I will go to war in a red dress,
trample your ashes in high heels,
look for my lipstick stain on your collar
when I lean forwards not to kiss you,
but to whisper:
“I win.”

D. C. L.

To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.

Tyler Kent White

Never apologize for burning too brightly or collapsing into yourself every night. That is how galaxies are made.

All she wanted was the effort she gave.

"I Am The Messenger" by Markus Zusak

Sometimes people are beautiful.
Not in looks.
Not in what they say.
Just in what they are.

"Wie ich" von Kraftclub

Die Leute sagen
"Bleib wie du bist"
aber nein tut mir leid,
vielleicht reicht mir das nicht.

"Keine Maschine" von Tim Bendzko

Ich bin ein Mensch,
mit all meinen Fehlern,
meiner Wut und der Euphorie.
Und keine Maschine,
ich lebe von Luft und Fantasie.

"Verflossene Liebe" von Casper

Was nützt mein Herz,
wenn deins nicht
mitschlägt
mitgeht
mitleidet
mitlebt
mitbebt?

"Veronal" von Marteria

Ich würde acht Tage durchtanzen,
würden sie mich lassen

I don't need therapy.
I need a hug.

"Bisschen mein Ding" von Samy Deluxe

Und auch wenn du es komisch findest, wie's klingt
Sag' ich dir, du bist schon so 'n bisschen mein Ding

"Teilchen & Beschleuniger" von Partisan

Den Kopf voller Meeresrauschen

L.W.

And suddenly, the monster in him falls silent as he rests his head on her lap.

(found on tumblr)

"Journey" by Phaeleh

Serge Gainsbourg

J'aime la nuit, j'ai les idées plus claires dans le noir.

Franz Kafka

Ich glaube, man sollte überhaupt nur solche Bücher lesen, die einen beißen und stechen. Wenn das Buch, das wir lesen, uns nicht mit einem Faustschlag auf den Schädel weckt, wozu lesen wir dann das Buch? Damit es uns glücklich macht, wie Du schreibst? Mein Gott, glücklich wären wir eben auch, wenn wir keine Bücher hätten, und solche Bücher, die uns glücklich machen, könnten wir zur Not selber schreiben. Wir brauchen aber die Bücher, die auf uns wirken wie ein Unglück, das uns sehr schmerzt, wie der Tod eines, den wir lieber hatten als uns, wie wenn wir in Wälder verstoßen würden, von allen Menschen weg, wie ein Selbstmord, ein Buch muß die Axt sein für das gefrorene Meer in uns. Das glaube ich.

"Women" by Charles Bukowski

Oh, I don't mean you're handsome, not the way people think of handsome. Your face seems kind. But your eyes — they're beautiful. They're wild, crazy, like some animal peering out of a forest on fire.

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.

"If There’s A Way Out I’ll Take It" by Lora Mathis

I want to talk about
what happened
without mentioning
how much it hurt.
There has to be a way.
To care for the wounds
without reopening them.
To name the pain
without inviting it
back into me.

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 someone that can make me smile.

Di Riseborough

You only have so much emotional energy each day. Don't spend it on things that don't matter or on people who don't value you or your time. Be discerning.

I crave touch, yet I flinch every time someone is close enough.

Only fools fall in love and I guess I'm one of them.

Michael Crichton, 2008

Human beings interact with complex systems very successfully. We do it all the time. But we do it by managing them, not by claiming to understand them.

Erhard Horst Bellermann

Man sollte den Zweck anbeten.
Er heiligt die Mittel.

Thom Yorke

I want to be alone and I want people to notice me - both at the same time.

William H. Woodwell Jr.

People think they know you. They think they know how you're handling a situation. But the truth is no one knows. No one knows what happens after you leave them, when you're lying in bed or sitting over your breakfast alone and all you want to do is cry or scream. They don't know what's going on inside your head — the mind-numbing cocktail of anger and sadness and guilt. This isn't their fault. They just don't know. And so they pretend and they say you're doing great when you're really not. And this makes everyone feel better. Everybody but you.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

I wish I could I write. I get these ideas but I never seem to be able to put them into words.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Wir denken selten an das, was wir haben, aber immer an das, was uns fehlt.

Meister Eckhart

Und plötzlich weißt du: Es ist Zeit, etwas Neues zu beginnen und dem Zauber des Anfangs zu vertrauen.

"The 'Monday Is Okay' Mix" by Phaeleh

https://soundcloud.com/the-ransom-note/phaeleh-the-monday-is-okay-mix

Jules François Felix Fleury-Husson

Eine dösende Katze ist das Abbild perfekter Seligkeit.

Jalal al-Din Rumi

I once had a thousand desires,
But in my one desire to know you,
all else melted away.

Jonathan Safran Foe

Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.

Braveheart

Your heart is free.
Have the courage to follow it.

"Ozean" von Gerard

Als du mich fallen gelassen hast,
hab ich fliegen gelernt.

Stella Gibson, The Fall (2016)

Men always think in terms of fight or flight. In fact, the most common instinct in the face of this kind of threat is to freeze. If she didn't fight, if she didn't scream, if she was silent and numb, it's because she was petrified. If she went with him quietly, it's because she was afraid for her life. And not just her life - yours and Nancy's and the baby's. In that state of fear she might well have been compliant. She might well have submitted. But that does not mean she consented.

(https://twitter.com/TheFallTV)

“I don’t want to be told I’m pretty as I am - I want to live in a world where that’s irrelevant” by Laurie Penny, New Statesman, 11th of May 2013

Rather than fighting for every woman's right to feel beautiful, I would like to see the return of a kind of feminism that tells women and girls everywhere that maybe it's all right not to be pretty and perfectly well behaved. That maybe women who are plain, or large, or old, or differently abled, or who simply don't give a damn what they look like because they're too busy saving the world or rearranging their sock drawer, have as much right to take up space as anyone else.
I think if we want to take care of the next generation of girls we should reassure them that power, strength and character are more important than beauty and always will be, and that even if they aren't thin and pretty, they are still worthy of respect. That feeling is the birthright of men everywhere. It's about time we claimed it for ourselves.

Alfred Selacher

Gedanken können heilen,
Katzenschnurren auch.

"Making Things Perfectly Queer: Interpreting Mass Culture" by Alexander Doty

Queer readings aren’t “alternative” readings, wishful or willful misreadings, or “reading too much into things” readings. They result from the recognition and articulation of the complex range of queerness that has been in popular culture texts and their audiences all along.

"The Celluloid Closet" by Harvey Fierstein

All the reading I was given to do in school was always heterosexual, every movie I saw was heterosexual, and I had to do this translation. I had to translate it to my life rather than seeing my life. Which is why when people say to me, “Your work is not really gay work, it's universal.” And I say, “Up yours. It's gay. And that you can take it, and translate it to your own life is very nice, but, at last, I don't have to do the translating. You do.

Leonard McCoy

In space nobody will hear me complain but that won't stop me. Nothing can.

Chris Evans

Listen, a love scene doesn't have to be between a man and a woman. It can be any way you want it.

John C. Moffi

We mistake sex for romance. Guys are taught that pushing a girl against a wall is romance. Sex is easy, you can do it with anyone, yourself, with batteries. Romance is when someone you like walks into a room and they take your breath away. Romance is when two people are dancing and they fit together perfectly. Romance is when two people are walking next to each other and all of a sudden they find themselves holding hands, and they don't know how that happened.

"This Side of Paradise" by F. Scott Fitzgerald

I'm a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires.

Louise Brealey

You don't have to have a boyfriend to be happy. To be pretty. Or belong.

Albert Schweitzer

Es gibt zwei Möglichkeiten, vor dem Elend des Lebens zu flüchten: Musik und Katzen.

iZombie

Du schlingst deine Beine doch um alles, was Geld hat. Du hast es sogar bei einer Parkuhr versucht.

Remington Miller

I found I was more confident when I stopped trying to be someone else's definition of beautiful and started being my own.

Nikita Gill

I swore I would never want another, but have you met the boy? He carries lightning in his fingertips with skin made from flames. I knew from the moment he touched me I was ashes to his name.

I hope there are days when you fall in love with being alive.

(found on tumblr)

"Start A Riot" by Banners

I will march down an empty street like a ship into the storm
No surrender, no retreat
I will tear down every wall
Just to keep you warm
Just to bring you home
I will burn this city down for a diamond in the dust
I will keep you safe and sound when there's no one left to trust
Will you take my hand?
We can make our stand

If your world falls apart
I'd start a riot
If night falls in your heart
I'd light the fire
In the dark, when you sound the alarm
We'll find each other's arms
For your love, all you are
I'd start a riot

I will wade through the fire and smoke like sunlight through the haze
I will fight till the flag waves white until my dying days
Through the bombs and blasts
We will take it back

[...]

If your world falls apart
I'd start a riot

(http://www.vevo.com/watch/banners/Start-A-Riot/USUV71503693)

I am not controversial

My name
Is not controversial
No matter who else’s it attaches to
No Mrs nor Ms nor Missus
Can change this.

My lips
Are not controversial
Not their lack of color
Or the words that leave them
Can change this.

My clothes
Are not controversial
Not their shortness
Or largeness
Can change this.

I am not controversial.

There is no controversy
Between my legs
Of what is
Or isn’t
There.

I am a woman.

I am not controversial.
There is no contradiction
Between me and myself
That lies
Inherently
In the layers of
My womanhood.

(found on tumblr)

Danu Grayson

I'm quirky, silly, blunt, and broken. My days are sometimes too dark, and my nights are sometimes too long. I often trip over my own insecurities. I require attention, long for passion, and wish to be desired. I use music to speak when words fail me, even though words are as important to me as the air I breathe. I love hard and with all that I have… and even with my faults, I am worth loving.

"A Little Life" by Hanya Yanagihara

Why wasn't friendship as good as a relationship? Why wasn't it even better? It was two people who remained together, day after day, bound not by sex or physical attraction or money or children or property, but only by the shared agreement to keep going, the mutual dedication to a union that could never be codified.

Glück ist, wenn der Verstand tanzt, das Herz atmet und die Augen lieben.

Osho

From the very beginning you are being told to compare yourself with others. This is the greatest disease; it is like a cancer that goes on destroying your very soul because each individual is unique, and comparison is not possible.

Alfred Tennyson

If I had a flower for every time I thought of you…I could walk through my garden forever.

Koi Fresco

The people who make you smile from just seeing them, those are my favorite people.

Everything Is Awful and I'm Not Okay: questions to ask before giving up

tumblr version

printable version

Humanity earned the ability to soar with the birds, to cross vast oceans, even exploring the vastness of the Universe, but unable to overcome the growing distance that love presents itself as time goes by.

(found on youtube in the comment section)

atticus

Don't ask her to be a rock for you to lean upon. Instead, build her wings, and point her to the sky, and she will teach you both how to fly.

Jacques Prévert

Millions and millions of years would still not give me half enough time to describe that tiny instant of all eternity when you put your arms around me and I put my arms around you.

Letters Live: Andrew Scott

https://vimeo.com/157735423

Miyamoto Musashi

There is nothing
outside of yourself
that can ever enable you
to get better, stronger, richer,
quicker, or smarter.
Everything is within.
Everything exists.
Seek nothing
outside of yourself.

Kurt Vonnegut

Be soft. Do not let the
world make you hard. Do
not let the pain make you hate.
Do not let the bitterness
steal your sweetness. Take
pride that even though the
rest of the world may
disagree, you still believe it
to be a beautiful place.

Laurie Helgoe

If you ask an introvert a
question, wait until she
thinks about it. Introverts
think before speaking, not
through speaking. If you
want to get to the good
stuff, you need to slow
down.

"Linotte: The EarlyDiary of Anais Nin" by Anais Nin

...but the truth is I am terribly weak. And I crave
the balm of beautiful and soft things.

Ardian Michael

She made things out of broken things
and rose above the ones that hurt her.

Sherlock Holmes, BBC Sherlock

Bitterness is a paralytic. Love is a much more vicious motivator.

I just want somebody who will never stop choosing me.

John Barrowman, FandomFest

Never apologize for being a nerd - because unnerdy people never apologize for being assholes!

Jacob, Eclipse (2010)

Imprinting on someone is like... Like when you see her... Everything changes. All of a sudden, its not gravity holding you to the planet. It's her... Nothing else matters. You would do anything... be anything for her.

Nanea Hoffman

On Sundays,
I like to prepare
for the week
ahead by making
plans I am
unlikely to keep
while sipping
coffee and surfing
the Internet.

Victoria Erickson

I crave the ones who've seen confusion and known struggle; who have pulled themselves up from the shackles of heartache and strife, disappointment and darkness, exhaustion and drain and have risen with a heart as open and unwaveringly wide as the ocean itself. Give me those people. The brave, the vulnerable, the wise, the ones who care for a world, and how to better it along with themselves. To know their ability in making waves, in shifting patterns with tides and in creating change. Let us become that open ocean. And make it rise.

"A List of Random and Unrelated Things to Remember" by Victoria Erickson

Time heals.
Mountain winds sound exactly like ocean waves.
You are worth everything now.
Walls can be destroyed.
The sun always rises (and is always beautiful).
Children know the answers.
There is music in everything.
Logic doesn't produce magic.
Somewhere, somebody loves you.
You don't need to choose mediocre when fire exists.
The moon orchestrates our nights and tides.
Trees can grow through rock.
Your heart expands when it's broken.
You should do it now.

"Tick Tock" by Walking On Cars

Run from yourself but you're still stuck with you

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtQeT79zNv8)

Tyler Knott Gregson

Call me many things, call me friend, lover,
call me dreamer and chaser of some light,
some where; call me many things
but call me not predictable, call me not
boring. I cannot keep up
with the pace of my thoughts, the beat
of the heart drumming in my chest,
and if you stay near me  for longer
than a breath or two, I wonder if you
can keep up too.
I wonder what else you call me,
what words fall from lips
to describe the mess and
menagerie that is
me.

Tyler Knott Gregson

Promise me you will not spend so much time treading water and trying to keep your head above the waves that you forget, truly forget, how much you have always loved to swim.

NASA Video : Earth From Space Real Footage - Video From The International Space Station ISS

"maybe we're just two stars born from different constellations,
we were never meant to connect,
oh, but how we tried,
we reached, we screamed, we yearned,
but it was never enough."
— you slipped away from my grasp before i could even touch you // k.s.

(found on tumblr)

Louise Brealey

Trying to figure out what other people think about you is a total waste of your life. Tell your mum and dad you love them. Keep a diary. Be your own woman.

Erin McKean

You don't owe prettiness to anyone. Not to your boyfriend/ spouse/ partner, not to your co-workers, especially not to random men on the street. You don't owe it to your mother, you don't owe it to your children, you don't owe it to civilization in general. Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked 'female'.

Theodore Roosevelt

It is not the critic who counts
not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles,
or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.
The credits belongs to the man who is actually in the arena

marc maron

I'm not for everyone. I'm barely for me.

Simon Finley, Dragon (Original Soundtrack)

https://soundcloud.com/simonfinleyofficial/sets/dragon-original-soundtrack

Fuck being nice to everyone. If someone treats you badly, you have every right not to tolerate bullshit.

(found on twitter)

"The Catcher in the Rye" by J.D. Salinger

I knew it wasn't too important, but it
made me sad anyway.

In a relationship, you need somebody who's going to call you out, not somebody who's going to let everything slide. You need somebody who doesn't want to live without you, but can. Not somebody that is dependent, but somebody who is stronger with you. A relationship is two people, not one.

"The Introvert’s Way" by Sophia Dembling

One of the risks of being quiet is that other people can fill your silence with their own interpretation: You're bored. You're depressed. You're shy. You're stuck up. You're judgmental. When others can't read us, they write their own story—not always one we choose or that's true to who we are.

Kaskade

Don't be fooled by your emptiness
there's so much more room for happiness

Visual Statements

Flausen im Kopf. 

Der perfekte Airbag für die Seele.

Donald Winnicott

Artists are people driven by the tension between 

the desire to communicate and the desire to hide.

“Self-Improvement” by Tony Hoagland

So the avenues we walk down,
full of bodies wearing faces,
are full of hidden talent:
enough to make pianos moan,
sidewalks split,
streetlights deliriously flicker.

"Letter to children" by Laura Ingalls Wilder, (February 1947)

The real things haven’t changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong.

Moving On

You cannot replace someone. You cannot unlove. Every relationship is different. But you can try something new, something different, something better. And hopefully it will become more important than your last one.

(found on tumblr)

The Signal, 2007

Ben: Just sit down and relax.
Mya Denton: [getting dressed] I can't relax, Ben. I've never done this before. I don't know what I'm doing. I don't know how to do this. I don't know how to do this.
Ben: First, you just breathe, and then realize that it's okay.

Ben, The Signal (2007)

Listen to me. Do you hear that? Listen. It's past the noise in your head. That is the natural world. That has been here a long time before us. It's going to be here a long time after we're gone. That is real. And that is what we focus on.

Cyrano de Bergerac

To sing, to laugh, to dream.
To walk in my own way
and be alone.
Free, with an eye to see
things as they are.

Vladimir Lenin

There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.

Unholy Prayers

She was taught to pray on her knees, now when she kneels someone else exhales “oh god”.

(found on tumblr)

She is a paradox. A puzzle. She is faithful and yet detached. She is committed and yet relaxed. She loves everybody and yet no one. She is sociable and yet solitary. She is gentle and yet tough. She is passionate and yet platonic. In short, she is predictable in her unpredictability...

Audrey Hepburn

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm. As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands - one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.

Martha Graham

Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are great because of their passion.

You wake up every morning to fight the same demons that left you so tired the night before; and that, my love, is bravery.

Stephen Hawking

Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious. And however difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. It matters that you don't just give up.

"Tempt Me at Midnight" by Lisa Kleypas

His mouth moved passionately over hers, urging her lips apart. It was a kiss to level mountains and shake stars from the sky. It was a kiss to make angels faint and demons weep... a passionate, demanding, soul-searing kiss that nearly knocked the earth of its axis.

Madsen

Auf all meinen Wegen hast du mich beschützt. Ich hoffe, ich gebe dir das irgendwie zurück. Auf all meinen Wegen trag ich dich bei mir. Wie einen Kompass, den ich nie mehr verlier.

Emery Allen

Be kind to yourself while blooming. I know sometimes it feels like your soul doesn't always fit. It’s all a part of the process.

George Lakoff

Es ist also von höchster Relevanz, welche Metaphern wir in der politischen Sprache benutzen, denn sie entscheiden darüber, was wir - Sprecher und Hörer - darüber denken. Und was wir nicht denken, weil es in der gewählten Metapher nicht vorkommt.

Dalai Lama

The planet does not need more 'successful people.' The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers and lovers of all kinds.

Daphne du Maurier

I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands.

"The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath" by Sylvia Plath

So, now I shall talk every night. To myself. To the moon. I shall walk, as I did tonight, jealous of my loneliness, in the blue-sliver of the cold moon, shining brilliantly on the drifts of the fresh-fallen snow, with the myriad sparkles. I talk to myself and look at the dark trees, blessed neutral. So much easier than facing people, than having to look happy, invulnerable, clever.

Stephen Chbosky

I don't know if you've ever felt like that. That you wanted to sleep for a thousand years. Or just not exist. Or just not to be aware that you do exist. Or something like that. I think wanting that is very morbid, but I want it when I get like this. That's why I'm trying not to think. I just want it all to stop spinning.

Tyler Knott Gregson

I just think you should know, that out of all, in all the world, you have my most favorite face.

How do you do it? How do you walk away and not feel guilty? How do you look right past me? How do you act as if nothing ever happened between us? How do you replace me and tell me, “That’s life, people come and go”? How do you expect me to be fine after everything you’ve said and done, after everything you didn’t say?

Jacob Nordby

You know how every once in a while
you do something and the little voice
inside says,
"There. That's it. That's why you're
here."
...and you get a warm glow in your
heart because you know it's true?

Do more of that.

"Dracula" by Bram Stoker

There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights.

"Weiße Tapete/ Minimum" von Prinz Pi

https://youtu.be/49QmmQS4__k

Helen Exley

Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labelled 'this could change your life.'

Barry Allen, The Flash

My social life consists of running at superhuman speed and Netflix.

"Sekundenschlaf" von Marteria

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQ7ejjrIr9k

“COMING OF AGE” by Natalie Wee

Children hold their breaths to prove
they can go without.
I practice the art of pushing away.
We are doing the same thing.
The space between intimacy
& drowning is closer than we think.
A little water is still an ocean.
Just a small one. Even in your mouth,
or perhaps especially then.
The undercurrent of every wave promises
goodbye. I do not trust a leaving thing
to come back the same
or at all.
To love– to hold the silt of salt water
on your tongue, the violent scrape of tides
dangling in the throat– is to be pillared
with reckless thrashing & call it
a beautiful thing.

"Wild Side" by Cross My Heart

But I've heard that good girls finish last

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbuD0-UX4ew)

House of Cards

Auch der letzte Weg beginnt mit dem ersten Schritt.

"Welt der Wunder" von Marteria

Denn wir leben auf einem Blauen Planeten
Der sich um einen Feuerball dreht
Mit 'nem Mond der die Meere bewegt
Und du glaubst nicht an Wunder
Und du glaubst nicht an Wunder
Und ein Schmetterling schlägt seine Flügel
Die ganze Erdkugel bebt
Wir haben überlebt
Und du glaubst nicht an Wunder
Und du glaubst nicht an Wunder

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBD2ZFDFXto)

"Atlas still stands but does anyone else?" by Darshana S.

Tell me, Atlas.
What is heavier:

The world or its people's hearts?

"In deinen Armen" von Casper ft. Amaris

Bin nicht der beste Mensch,
doch immer da für dich,
wenn du mich brauchst.

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2cZnQY-I54)

Sufjan Stevens

On the sheet I see your horizon
All of me pressed onto you
But in this light you look like Poseidon
I’m just a ghost you walk right through

"Shake" by The Head And The Heart

Well the ink in my pen ran dry
Long before your smile
And the pages have always been blank
Like the trees in the wild

Sierra Kid

Du bist
immer da,
aber nie
hier.

James Taylor

You have to choose whether to love yourself or not.

The Musketeers, 2016

The day you die,
is just like every other day.
You wake and dress and eat and drink
just like every other day.
You don't see death coming
or hear its approach
because you are too busy living
too busy enjoying your life
sating your appetites.
Rich man or begger
it does not discriminate.
Death doesn't care about fleeing your demons
or making amends for them.
It doesn't care about any of that.
It only cares that this is your time,
your day
to die.

Dead Poets Society

Boys, you must strive to find your own voice. Because the longer you wait to begin, the less likely you are to find it at all. Thoreau said, “Most men lead lives of quiet desperation.” Don’t be resigned to that. Break out!

"Why Walking Helps Us Think" by Ferris Jabr

Perhaps the most profound relationship between walking, thinking, and writing reveals itself at the end of a stroll, back at the desk. There, it becomes apparent that writing and walking are extremely similar feats, equal parts physical and mental. When we choose a path through a city or forest, our brain must survey the surrounding environment, construct a mental map of the world, settle on a way forward, and translate that plan into a series of footsteps. Likewise, writing forces the brain to review its own landscape, plot a course through that mental terrain, and transcribe the resulting trail of thoughts by guiding the hands. Walking organizes the world around us; writing organizes our thoughts. Ultimately, maps like the one that Nabokov drew are recursive: they are maps of maps.

(full article)

Sufjan Stevens

I love you more than the world can contain in its lonely and ramshackle head.

Sylvia Plath

I know pretty much what I like and dislike;
but please, don't ask me who I am.

Henry David Thoreau

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you’ve imagined.

Henry David Thoreau

It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look. To affect the quality of the day that is the highest of arts.

"Walden" by Henry David Thoreau

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

"Me, Myself & I" by G-Easy x Bebe Rexha

Oh, it's just me, myself and I
Solo ride until I die
'Cause I got me for life
(yeah)
Oh I don't need a hand to hold
Even when the night is cold
I got that fire in my soul

I don't need anything to get me through the night
Except the beat that's in my heart
Yeah, it's keeping me alive
(Keeps me alive)
I don't need anything to make me satisfied (you know)
'Cause the music does me good and it gets me every time

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tfs5GOQK4dU)

Henry David Thoreau

Not until we are lost do we begin to find ourselves.

Henry David Thoreau

My desire for knowledge is intermittent; but my desire to bathe my head in atmospheres unknown to my feet is perennial and constant.

i have never been magnificent.
i am not made of greatness.
i have been selfish. unkind.
they won’t remember me as a king.
but they’ll remember she was the queen.

she wasn’t the kind of queen from storybooks.
she wasn’t good; she wasn’t soft.
she was persephone – queen of the underworld,
a trail of blood and death in her wake
and yet, still.
she was the most beautiful weapon i’ve ever seen up close.

she was a conquerer.
she was a storm.
she was terrifying in all the right ways.

and just like all others that have crossed her path,
i bow to her.

i will follow her
into war and peace alike

until i am no more.

(found on tumblr)

adrian michael

something inside of you
intentionally seduces me.
i am addicted to your magic.

Jessica Michelle

he wanted more than her
body. he wanted her words.
to him, they were music. he
would string them together.
writing the most enchanting
lullaby. they were the only
thing that could soothe his
lost soul.

"White is for Witching" by Helen Oyeyemi

But then, maybe “I don’t believe in you” is the cruelest way to kill a monster.

"your fall was not an accident. you were chosen for the damned" by c.k

They say that the loveliest angels 

make the cruelest demons
and my darling,
you were so kind and beautiful
before they dragged you to hell

"Volcano" by Woodkid

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIMgSVuW0y0

a.r.s.

They told me that if you repeat something over and over, that it will lose it's meaning.
So I stayed up a hundred nights, whispering your name until my voice was raw, hoping that tonight would be the night I'd stop loving you.

Samuel Beckett

Words are the clothes thoughts wear.

Schuyler Peck

I know it’s dangerous to think like this, but a big part of me wonders what would have happened if you just said you were sorry; that you never meant to hurt me. How different do you think things might have been?

I refuse to let this pain make me bitter. I refuse to let these battle wounds make me hard.

Sue Fitzmaurice

Being a little weird is just a natural side-effect of being awesome.

Oprah Winfrey

Nobody but you is responsible for your life.
It doesn't matter what your mama did; it doesn't matter what your daddy didn't do.
You are responsible for your life. You are responsible for the energy that you create for yourself, and you're responsible for the energy that you bring to others.

"Scheinbar" von Lance Butters

Alles was von uns bleibt is'n Kapitel in 'nem Buch mit kompliziertem Titel. Doch trotzdem les' ich's immer wieder, in der Hoffnung, das Ende schreibt sich doch um.

Hafiz

Stay close to anything
that makes you glad
that you're alive.

Socrates

The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our separate ways, I to die, and you to live. Which of these two is better only God knows.

Marylin Monroe

Just because you fail once doesn't mean you're gonna fail at everything.

Abraham Lincoln

Whatever you are, be a good one.

"Glücksrad" von Teesy

Wir sind jung, warum sollten wir vernünftig sein?

Don't be sad, be even.

Farblose grüne Ideen schlafen wütend, denn schlafende Ideen sollten farblos grün wüten.

"Unperfekt" von Die Orsons/ Maeckes

Ich bin wer ich bin
Ja das klingt ziemlich dumm, aber nimm mich so hin"
Sage ich zu mir selbst, doch ich selbst hör nicht hin
Weil ich ziemlich selbstzerstörerisch bin
Und plötzlich macht alles kein' Sinn mehr
Imperialistischer Zweifel
Pfeifen ihre Hunde nicht zurück und sie beißen
Jede meiner Sicherheiten
Dann kann ich mich nicht mehr halten
Kippe Alk' in meine Wunden, ess' ein paar Kippenschachteln
Für ein paar Sekunden ist dann alles egal
Und die Null bin nicht ich, sondern einfach ne' Zahl
Und Schuld bin nicht ich, sondern wir alle zusammen
Doch unterm Strich, fassen wir's zusammen
--
Phasenweise find ich alles phänomenal
Und dann gibt's diese Phasen, da sind mir alle Menschen egal
--
Ich bin unperfekt
Jeder kann meine Fehler sehen
Einfach unperfekt
Eine unlesbare DVD
Ich bin unperfekt
Und ich werde wohl nie verstehen
Wie mich so (wie mich so 2x)
Irgendjemand lieben kann (irgendjemand lieben kann)

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBNb1pVGJ04)

Bryant McGill

Everyone goes through hell,
but not everyone stays there.
Stop tormenting yourself by
reliving the pain over and over.
Good people go through terrible
things, but wise people know
when and how to let it go.

Leonard Flinch, Grandchester

I say let the world go to hell, as long as I have my tea.

Prince

Despite everything, no one can dictate who you are to other people.

Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter und die Kammer des Schreckens

"Genau", sagte Dumbledore und strahlte abermals. "Und das heißt, du bist ganz anders als Tom Riddle, Harry. Viel mehr als unsere Fähigkeiten sind es unsere Entscheidungen, Harry, die zeigen, wer wir wirklich sind."

Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter und der Stein der Weisen

Es ist nicht gut, wenn wir nur unseren Träumen nachhängen und vergessen zu leben.

"Migraine" by Twenty One Pilots

I do not have writer's block,
My writer just hates the clock.
--
'Cause sometimes to stay alive you gotta kill your mind.
Am I the only one I know,
Waging my wars behind my face and above my throat?
Shadows will scream that I'm alone,
But I know we've made it this far, kid.
--
Life has a hopeful undertone.

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bs92ejAGLdw)

Petrichor (n.)

The smell of earth after rain.

King John, William Shakespeare

Be great in act as you have been in thought.

"Lady Midnight" by Cassandra Clare

"I tried to stop," he [Julian Blackthorn] said. "That's why I went to England. I thought if I was away from you, maybe I'd stop feeling what I was feeling. But as soon as I got back, the first second that I saw you, I knew it hadn't made any difference." He looked around the room, his expression almost resigned. "Why all these paintings of you? Because I'm an artist, Emma. These pictures are my heart. And if my heart was a canvas, every square inch of it would be painted over with you."

Nikita Gill

She wears strength and darkness equally well,
the girl has always been half goddess, half hell. 

Frank Underwood, House of Cards

Der Weg an die Macht ist mit Heuchelei gepflastert... und Kollateralschäden; kein Platz für Reue.

"Cheap Thrills" by Sia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5IzxrvClJ8

Katherine, TVD

We manipulate, we thirst for power, we control, we punish, but our actions are driven by one singular place deep inside: We're alone... and we hate it.

Niklaus Mikaelson, TVD

Loneliness, Stefan. That's why you and I memorialise our dead. There's the briefest of moments before we kill where we literally hold their life in our hands. And then we rip it away. And we're left with nothing. So gathering other people's letters or writing their names on a wall is a reminder. That in the end we're left infinitely and utterly alone.

Ekko, League of Legends

People waste a lot of time. Then they wish for more. Want more hours in their days, more days in their years, more years in their lives. As if they had all that extra time, they could fix any mistake. I don't need hours or days or years, I only need seconds. - Here's the thing about time; if you can't make the most out of any given moment, then you don't deserve a single extra second.

"Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me" by The Smiths

Last night I dreamt
That somebody loved me
No hope, no harm
Just another false alarm

Last night I felt
Real arms around me
No hope, no harm
Just another false alarm

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tk0BOK0EDFE)

She was poetry in a world that was still learning the alphabet.

William A. Ward

The pessimist complains about the wind;
the optimist expects it to change;
the realist adjusts the sails.

"This sentence has five words" by Gary Provost

This sentence has five words. Here are five more words. Five-word sentences are fine. But several together become monotonous. Listen to what is happening. The writing is getting boring. The sound of it drones. It's like a stuck record. The ear demands some variety. Now listen. I vary the sentence length, and I create music. Music. The writing sings. It has a pleasant rhythm, a lilt, a harmony. I use short sentences. And I use sentences of medium length. And sometimes, when I am certain the reader is rested, I will engage him with a sentence of considerable length, a sentence that burns with energy and builds with all the impetus of a crescendo, the roll of the drums, the crash of the cymbals–sounds that say listen to this, it is important. So write with a combination of short, medium, and long sentences. Create a sound that pleases the reader's ear. Don't just write words. Write music.

"3.0 - Letzter Song" von Raf

Die Nacht war lang obwohl sie noch jung schien.
Betäubte Neuronen vom Flutlicht.
-
...aus heute wird morgen, auf morgen hab ich kein Bock.

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yk3lmzOnonE)

Sprichwort

Der lieblichste Ton auf der Welt
ist das Schnurren einer Katze.

Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders

Listen to your convictions even if they seem absurd to your reason.
-Egyptian Proverb

You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.

Dr. SunWolf

Sometimes, eating a thick slice of chocolate fudge cake with ice cream makes you a better person.

I like cancelled plans. And empty bookstores. I like rainy days and thunderstorms. And quiet coffee shops. I like messy beds and over-worn pajamas. Most of all, I like the small joys that a simple life brings.

(found on: tumblr)

Robert Holden

Your relationship with yourself sets the tone for every other relationship you have.

Anna Funder

She was brave
and strong
and broken
all at once.

There is so much hurt in my heart 

and I'm good at hiding it 

but not healing it. 

There is always something eating at me. That's who I am.

Kraftclub

Das geht vorbei, doch was ist wenn nicht? Was ist wenn alles so bleibt was ist? Wenn sich nie etwas ändert, außer den Blätter an meinem Kalender.

Maeckes

Generation Google - wir schauen auf die Welt. Wir finden alles, außer uns selbst.

"Glück" von Prinz Pi

Neue Liebe beginnt da, wo die alte aufhört wehzutun
--
Mit dir  hört sich lebenslang plötzlich sehr erträglich an
--
Viele Freunde sind verliebt darin verliebt zu sein

(https://youtu.be/gE94akXDtHM)

Daredevil, 2016

May the neighbours respect you, trouble neglect you, the angels protect you and heaven accept you.

(2x04)

Oscar Wilde

Die Zeit verrinnt, Nacht folgt auf Nacht, und immer noch die Katze träumt; mit sanften Augen, goldgesäumt, hält sie auf ihrem Teppich Wacht.

Pootie Tang, 2001

You can't beat a ho with a belt... they like that shit.

Everyone wants to be the sun
to lighten up someone's life
but why not be the moon
to brighten in the darkest hour

"Wide Sargasso Sea" by Jean Rhys

I had two longings and one was fighting the other.
I wanted to be loved and I wanted to be always alone.

Bill Gates

Don't compare yourself with anyone in this world. If you do so, you are insulting yourself.

John Kabat-Zinn

The little things?
The little moments?
They aren't little.

Washington Irving

There is sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.

"The Graveyard Book" by Neil Gaiman

People want to forget the impossible. It makes their world safer.

"The Meeting in a Dream" by Jorge Luis Borges

To fall in love is to create a religion with a fallible god.

Marilyn Monroe

I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.

"How to Say Goodbye in Robot" by Natalie Standiford

Even if you know what’s coming, you’re never prepared for how it feels.

Sonya Teclai

Be a better you, for you.

Maybe we’ll meet again, when we’re slightly older and our minds less hectic, and I’ll be right for you and you’ll be right for me. But right now I am chaos to your thoughts and you are poison to my heart.

"Young God" by Halsey

He says, "Oh, baby girl, you know we're gonna be legends
I'm the king and you're the queen and we will stumble through heaven
If there's a light at the end, it's just the sun in your eyes
I know you wanna go to heaven but you're human tonight"

He says, "Oh, baby girl, don't get cut on my edges
I'm the king of everything and oh, my tongue is a weapon
There's a light in the crack that's separating your thighs
And if you wanna go to heaven you should fuck me tonight"

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Recognize that the very molecules that make up your body, the atoms that construct the molecules, are traceable to the crucibles that were once the centers of high mass stars that exploded their chemically rich guts into the galaxy, enriching pristine gas clouds with the chemistry of life. So that we are all connected to each other biologically, to the earth chemically and to the rest of the universe atomically. That’s kinda cool! That makes me smile and I actually feel quite large at the end of that. It’s not that we are better than the universe, we are part of the universe. We are in the universe and the universe is in us.

Ägyptisches Sprichwort

Wer mit einer Katze spielt,
muss wissen, dass sie auch Krallen hat.

"A Broken Heart Still Beats" by The Rigs

Smile at the crowd
but I know you're lonely
To say it out loud
is to admit that you're beat
I know the truth
and I know your secrets
It might not be safe
but danger is sweet
The truth is a broken heart still beats

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id_2KTp3yRw)

"The One" by Lang Leav

I don't want you to love me because I'm good for you,
because I say and do all the right things. Because I am
everything you have been looking for.
I want to be the one you didn't see coming. The one who gets
under your skin. Who makes you unsteady. Who makes you
question everything you have ever believed about love. I
want to be the one who makes you feel reckless and out of
control; the one you are infuriatingly and inexplicably
drawn to.
I don't want to be the one who tucks you into bed; I want to
be the reason why you can't sleep at night.

"Dirty Pretty Things" by Michael Faudet

She was the kind of girl
who loved to stretch out under the sheets,
eating chocolate,
and fucking on rainy afternoons.

"Memories" by Lang Laev

It was words that I fell for. In the end, it was words that broke my heart.

"Devil's Playground" by The Rigs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZ4gbXRHXNY

"Spit It Out" by IAMX

And if you’re hurting, I will replace the noise with silence instead, flushing out your head.
If you like it violent, we can play rough and tumble, fall into bed, and I won’t breathe so you can recover.

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQ78xHNnjCs)

Gabourey Sidibe

One day I decided that I was beautiful, and so I carried out my life as if I was a beautiful girl. I wear colors that I really like, I wear makeup that makes me feel pretty, and it really helps. It doesn’t have anything to do with how the world perceives you. What matters is what you see. Your body is your temple, it’s your home, and you must decorate it.

Ruby Wax

How come every other organ in your body can get sick and you get sympathy, except your brain?

"Romancing Mister Bridgerton" by Julia Quinn

Deep inside, she knew who she was, and that person was smart and kind and often even funny, but somehow her personality always got lost somewhere between her heart and her mouth, and she found herself saying the wrong thing or, more often, nothing at all.

Bill Murray

There's only one person you're guaranteed to spend the rest of your life with… yourself. Don't live the rest of your life with an asshole.

"Nachtzug nach Lissabon" von Pascal Mercier

Ich will nicht, dass mich jemand ganz versteht. Ich will unerkannt durchs Leben gehen. Die Blindheit der anderen ist meine Sicherheit und meine Freiheit.

Your value doesn't decrease based on someone's inability to see your worth.

If they can't make you laugh then don't fuck them.

Ijeoma Umebinyuo

Start now. Start where you are. Start with fear. Start with pain. Start with doubt. Start with hands shaking. Start with voice trembling but start. Start and don’t stop. Start where you are, with what you have. Just…start.

"Pills" by The Perishers

One may think we're alright
But we need pills to sleep at night
We need lies to make it through the day
We're not okay

"Daily Poem #1" by Nick A West

Maybe soulmates
are just two ordinary people
who are too stubborn
to let the world pull them apart

Deaton, MTV Teen Wolf

But it's not just someone to hold you under. It needs to be someone who can pull you back, someone that has a strong connection to you, a kind of emotional tether.

Jaime Lichauco

When it’s time for souls to meet, there’s nothing on earth that can prevent them from meeting, no matter where each may be located. When two hearts are meant for each other, no distance is too far, no time is too long, and no other love can break them apart.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

"Hurts Like Hell" by Fleurie

https://soundcloud.com/fleuriemusic-1/hurts-like-hell

John Cassavetes

Say what you are. Not what you would like to be. Not what you have to be. Just say what you are. And what you are is good enough.

Perché lo so fare

Dolce far niente

Süßes Nichtstun

Jace Wayland, Shadowhunters (2016)

You assume I have feelings. I don't.

Leonard Cohan

There is a crack in everything.
That’s how the light gets in.

"Getting Into the Vortex" by Abraham-Hicks

Being happy is a very personal thing—and it really has nothing to do with anyone else .

Don’t get mad. Don’t get even. Do better. Much better. Rise above. Become so engulfed in your own success that you forget it ever happened.

"Lover at Last" by J. R. Ward

Closing the door behing hin [Qhuinn], he leaned back against it. The only person he wanted to see was the one guy in the house who had no interest in-
[...]
"Is there anything I can do?" [Blay said]
So funny. Qhuinn had always felt as though he'd come out of his mother's womb an adult. Then again, there had never been any cootchie-coo crap for him, no darling-little-boy stuff, no hugs when he hurt himself, no coddling when he was frightened. As a result, whether it was character or the way he'd been brought up, he'd never regressed.
Nothing to go back to there.
Yet it was in the voice of a child that he said, "Make it stop?"
As if Blay alone had the power to work a miracle.
And then... the male did.
Blay extented his arms wide, offering the only haven Qhuinn had ever known.

"Make it stop?"
Blay's body started to shake as Qhuinn uttered those words: After all these years, he'd seen th eguy in a lot of moods and in a lot of circumstances. Never like this, though. Never... so completely and utterly ruined.
Never like a child, lost.
In spite of his need to keep really and truly far away from an emotional anything, his arms opened of their own accord.
As Qhuinn stepped in against him, the fighter's body seemed smaller than it actually was. And the arms that wound around Blay's waist simply lay against him as if there was no strength in the muscles.Blay held them both up.


(p. 279)

Emotionally upset & stomachache

The tenth cranial nerve, the vagus nerve is the only cranial nerve that leaves the confines of the skull and meanders throughout the body. The word vagus, derived from the latin word vagrant, or wanderer, wanders throughout the body.
That's why we feel it in our stomach when we are upset emotionally. The vagus innervates the stomach, the gut, the liver, the heart also. Emotion begins in the mind, and is transferred to the body via the many branches of cranial nerve X, the vagus.

Lebenskreis

Wurzeln schlagen und aufbrechen,
festhalten und loslassen,
jeden Zeitraum als Geschenk erleben.

"Clockwork Prince" by Cassandra Clare

We live and breathe words. .... It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I with them. Reading your words, what you wrote, how you were lonely sometimes and afraid, but always brave; the way you saw the world, its colors and textures and sounds, I felt--I felt the way you thought, hoped, felt, dreamt. I felt I was dreaming and thinking and feeling with you. I dreamed what you dreamed, wanted what you wanted--and then I realized that truly I just wanted you.

George Orwell

On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

William Shakespeare

The earth has music for those who listen.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

the earth laughs in flowers

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful,
we must carry it with us, or we find it not.

Plato

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

Glenn Beck

Sometimes the hardest part of the journey is believing you’re worthy of the trip.

Paulo Coelho

We all know fear. But passion makes us fearless.

When thinking about life remember this; no amount of guilt can solve the past and no amount of anxiety can change the future.

"Musik" von Prinz Pi

Ich glaube ich sauf zu viel, ich glaub ich konserviere mich
Ich glaube, doch bei dir weiß ich, ich liebe dich
 ...
Der letzte Roadtrip auf ein Festival, dessen Headliner der Tod ist
Ich hab Backstage Pässe für dich und mich klargemacht
Du brauchst keine schwenken, weil ich schon ne Fahne hab

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCJuJ4e_gk4)

"Augen zu" von Clueso

Erinner mich lieber an die unkomplizierten, kleinen Momente, dann wenn gar nichts los ist
Erinner mich lieber an die unkomplizierten, schönen Momente
Die man so schnell vergisst
Die man so leicht vergisst
Die man so schnell vergisst

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_s__OOFAD9Q)

Albanische Sprichwort

Für die Maus
ist die Katze
ein Löwe.

Hedonist Poet

Nothing motivates you like dreaming, and yet nothing haunts you like your dreams.

Hedonist Poet

Everytime I’m surrounded by people who are supposed to be like me, it becomes more clear that I am different than everyone else

Joanna Hoffman

The truth is, I pretend to be a cynic, but I am really a dreamer who is terrified of wanting something she may never get.

E. E. Cummings

A bouquet of clumsy words: you know that place between sleep and awake where you’re still dreaming but it’s slowly slipping? I wish we could feel like that more often. I also wish I could click my fingers three times and be transported to anywhere I like. I wish that people didn’t always say ‘just wondering’ when you both know there was a real reason behind them asking. And I wish I could get lost in the stars. Listen, there’s a hell of a good universe next door, let’s go.

Charles Bukowski

Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you
think, I’m not going to make it, but you laugh inside —
remembering all the times you’ve felt that way.

Ernest Hemingway

We would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open and the stars bright.

"Shadows on the Sand" by Gayle Roper

Find a woman who makes you feel more alive. She won’t make life perfect but she’ll make it infinitely more interesting. And then love her with all that’s in you.

Lao Tzu

Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner.

Khalil Gibran

Die Schönheit offenbahrt sich denjenigen,
die betrachten.

Steve Maraboli

I find the best way to love someone is not to change them, but instead, to help them reveal the greatest version of himself.

Vincent Van Gogh

I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.

Robert Tew

Whatever makes my soul feel good in 2016, that’s what I’m chasing.

Konfuzius

Wohin du auch gehst,
geh mit deinem ganzen Herzen.