April 2013
3 posts
“Freedom is not given to us by anyone
we have to cultivate it ourselves.
It is...”
– Thich Nhat Hanh (via awelltraveledwoman)
“When you are recognized, it is an expression of love; when a present is given to...”
– Yogi Bhajan
“Oscar Wilde said that if you know what you want to be, then you inevitably...”
– Stephen Fry (via thatkindofwoman)
March 2013
11 posts
“It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.”
– Joseph Campbell
“I was by myself for a pretty long time. I needed to do that. I think everyone...”
– Justin Vernon (via awelltraveledwoman)
“Fear never helps relationships.”
– Stevie Nicks
“Take me to your trees. Take me to your breakfasts, your sunsets, your bad...”
– Margaret Atwood, Good Bones (via thatkindofwoman)
“You must love in such a way that the person you love feels free.”
– Thich Nhat Hanh (via phmancus)
“I think things are beautiful when you don’t plan them, and you don’t have any...”
– Alison Mosshart (via modernhepburn)
“What you are is a complicated girl with simple needs. You need your books and...”
– “Breakable You” by Brian Morton (via thatkindofwoman)
“It feels good to think about you when I’m warm in bed. I feel as if you’re...”
– Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood (via youngfolksociety)
“The hardest part of writing is writing.”
– Nora Ephron
“You can be aware that you want to improve yourself, but not because you believe...”
– don Miguel Ruiz
“It is only when we give to ourselves as passionately as we give of ourselves...”
– Suze Orman
February 2013
1 post
“There can only be a relationship between human beings when we accept what is,...”
– J. Krishnamurti
January 2013
22 posts
“The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not...”
– Thomas Merton
“The words you speak become the house you live in.”
– Hafiz
“This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more...”
– RILKE
“Not like I listen to every piece of feedback, but there are definitely people...”
– Lena Dunham
“I cannot rest from travel: I will drink
Life to the lees: All times I have...”
– Tennyson, “Ulysses”
“That which shrinks
Must first expand.
That which fails
Must first be strong....”
– Lao Tsu
“Her sentences were icebergs, with just the tip of her thought coming out of her...”
– Gregory Galloway, As Simple As Snow (via youngfolksociety)
“Sometimes I don’t know how he ended up with me. Like, how are you not with some...”
– Drew Barrymore
“You have to be tougher. You have to learn the way to beat your path through, to...”
– Grace Coddington (via thatkindofwoman)
“I don’t know a perfect person. I only know flawed people who are still...”
– John Green
“Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds...”
– George Bernard Shaw
soul-ma-tes:
“Very little grows on jagged rock. Be ground. Be crumbled. So wild flowers will come up Where you are. You have been stony for too many years. Try something different. Surrender.”
- Rumi
“Peace comes from being aligned with the present moment. Wherever you are, you...”
– Eckhart Tolle
“I think this is one of my favorite things about John. He humors me. I’m crazy,...”
– Chrissy Teigen
“The rose has no ‘why’, it blooms because it blooms. It doesn’t watch itself or...”
– Angelus Silesius (via minnaso)
YOU MIGHT FIND YOURSELF: The True Joy in Life →
youmightfindyourself:
By: George Bernard Shaw
This is the true joy in life, being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one. Being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of the…
“You write your first draft with your heart and you rewrite with your head. The...”
– Sean Connery (via thatkindofwoman)
“We are very good at preparing to live, but not very good at living. We know how...”
– Thich Nhat Hanh (via obliteratedheart)
“I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking...”
– Jorge Luis Borges
“You don’t need to justify your love, you don’t need to explain your...”
– Miguel Ruiz
“People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t...”
– George Bernard Shaw
December 2012
10 posts
“It is a miracle if you can find true friends, and it is a miracle if you have...”
– Lemony Snicket, The Lump of Coal
“There is no shame in being hungry for another person. There is no shame in...”
– Augusten Burroughs (via thatkindofwoman)
“I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and...”
– Khalil Gibran
“The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too...”
– Hemingway
“For every minute
that I get to share with you,
I will be thankful.”
– Daily Haiku on Love by Tyler Knott Gregson (via tylerknott)
“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters...”
– Khalil Gibran
texturism:
i do believe in an everyday sort of magic — the inexplicable connectedness we sometimes experience with places, people, works of art and the like; the eerie appropriateness of moments of synchronicity; the whispered voice, the hidden presence, when we think we’re alone.
- charles de lint | via papercottonink: an-itinerant-poet [emphasis mine]
“For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all...”
– RILKE
“There is no getting over death, only learning how to travel alongside it. It...”
– Sandra Cisneros (via mangocupcakes)
“Worrying is worthless.”
– Brian Weiss
November 2012
11 posts
“Happiness is to be found along the way, not at the end of the road, for then the...”
– Robert R. Updegraff
“The greatest of people in society carve niches that represented the unique...”
– Neil deGrasse Tyson
“Each man had only one genuine vocation - to find the way to himself…His...”
– Hermann Hesse 