"The Laughing Heart" by Charles Bukowski

your life is your life
don't let it be clubbed into dank submission.
be on the watch.
there are ways out.
there is a light somewhere.
it may not be much light but
it beats the darkness.
be on the watch.
the gods will offer you chances.
know them.
take them.
you can't beat death but
you can beat death in life, sometimes.
and the more often you learn to do it,
the more light there will be.
your life is your life.
know it while you have it.
you are marvelous
the gods wait to delight
in you.

"Veronika Decides to Die" by Paulo Coelho

Stop thinking all the time that you’re in the way, that you’re bothering the person next to you. If people don't like it, they can complain. And if they don’t have courage to complain, that’s their problem.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

For what it's worth... it's never too late, or in my case too early, to be whoever you want to be. There's no time limit. Start whenever you want. You can change or stay the same. There are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you've never felt before. I hope you meet people who have a different point of view. I hope you live a life you're proud of, and if you're not, I hope you have the courage to start over again.

"Sein Name sei Peng" von Käptn Peng

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgYNFH6QDSI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CboAukhfhQo

"Birth" by Thirty Seconds To Mars

I will save you from yourself
Time will change everything about this hell
Are you lost? Can't find yourself?
You're north of heaven

Maybe somewhere west of hell

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJ8uspgf7vs

"Parachute" by Jaymes Young

Sweetness
I can read your mind.
I see your skin turn red
When you lie.
If you don't wanna tell me nothing
Then you can go straight to hell.
Now I'm gonna tell you something
you fucked this up yourself.

I'm pullin' out my parachute
And I'm jumping from the plane we flew.
First I'm gonna tell the truth
But then I'm burning my bridge to you.

[...]

Don't lie
You're lying through your teeth.
And don't try to touch me
I'm afraid of your disease.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rfut_-POtGM

https://soundcloud.com/jaymes-young/parachute 

"One Last Time" by Jaymes Young

Could I feel your skin on mine
Before I have to say goodbye
Could I breathe, please, one last time
You in my lungs before I curl up
And die
All my world is losin' light

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

https://soundcloud.com/jaymes-young/one-last-time

"I'll be good" by Jaymes Young

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scd-uNNxgrU
https://soundcloud.com/jaymes-young/ill-be-good

"I Found" by Amber Run

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yj6V_a1-EUA

Nietzsche

Man muss das Leben tanzen.

Manny, Swiss Army Man (2016)

But maybe everyone's a little bit ugly. Maybe we're all just dying sacks of shit, and maybe all it'll take is one person to just be okay with that, and then the whole world will be dancing and singing and farting, and everyone will feel a little bit less alone.

"Island" by Aldous Huxley

It's dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you're feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them. I was so preposterously serious in those days…Lightly, lightly – it's the best advice ever given me…to throw away your baggage and go forward. There are quicksands all about you, sucking at your feet, trying to suck you down into fear and self-pity and despair. That's why you must walk so lightly. Lightly my darling...

"The Fall" by Albert Camus

You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer 'yes' without having asked any clear question.

I am constantly torn between wanting to improve myself and wanting to destroy myself.

Nora Roberts

If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.

"Shields" by Jack Hawitt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqyrR1EywCg

https://soundcloud.com/jackhawitt/shields-from-credence

Sherlock Holmes, BBC Sherlock

Taking your own life. Interesting expression - taking it from who?
Once it's over, it's not you who'll miss it. Your own death is something that happens to everybody else.
Your life is not your own. Keep your hands off it.

Shakespeare

Though she
be but
little,
she is
fierce.

Emily Dickinson

Wenn dein Mut sich dir verweigert, dann übertriff deinen Mut.

Cheryl Strayed

Gott ist eine rücksichtslose Schlampe.

Stand up, warrior; you are not yet finished.
Beaten you may be, but broken?
Angels have fallen from greater heights
and survived, so why shouldn't you?
Never mind what you are made of;
you are more than this flesh that binds you.
There is nothing you have to fear
that should you not fear a thousand times more.
Your heart is a galaxy, and your soul is lined in stars.

You are something extraordinary, my dear.


(found on tumblr)

"The Song of the Lark" by Willa Cather

There are some things you learn best in
calm, and some in storm.

Tom Hiddleston

I suppose I'm fascinated by the private vulnerability and the exterior of people. I think that's an essential truth. I sort of quite like trying to find what makes people tick behind the construction of their identity.

Henry Miller

Every day we slaughter our finest impulses. That is why we get a heartache when we read those lines written by the hand of a master and recognize them as our own, as the tender shoots which we stifled because we lacked the faith to believe in our own powers, our own criterion of truth and beauty. Every man, when he gets quiet, when he becomes desperately honest with himself, is capable of uttering profound truths. We all derive from the same source. there is no mystery about the origin of things. We are all part of creation, all kings, all poets, all musicians; we have only to open up, only to discover what is already there.

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.

(found on tumblr)

"Hi, I'm a virgin" by Izzy Inkpen

I'm taught chastity, not diversity.
Taught no, not possibility.
[...]
You're damn right my body is a temple,
And that won't change if I unlock the door.

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6q_7YljktTE)

"Hi, I'm a slut" by Savannah Brown

You're damn right my body is a temple,
I am the god it was built for. I am the landlord
and I can let whoever I want live inside it.

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6CCePrJlaU)

Jon Stewart

I'm not going to censor myself to comfort your ignorance.

Richey Edwards

I have a very childlike rage, and a very childlike loneliness.

Charles Orlando

Dear Strong Women:
You aren't intimidating,
he is intimidated.
There's a difference.

Mark Ryden

I find it so much easier to be creatively free at night. Daytime is for sleeping. Nighttime is the best time for making art. The later at night it gets the further into antoher world you go.

"The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern

I would have written you, myself, if I could put down in words everything I want to say to you. A sea of ink would not be enough. But you built me dreams instead.

"We are hard" by Margaret Atwood

A truth should exist,
it should not be used
like this. If I love you
is that a fact or a weapon?

"Until We Go Down" by Ruelle

they told you you're a nobody
so you became the queen/king
now everyone knows your name