"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

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.