Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism (via philosophybits)
Rahi Mehri (via honeyandelixir)
John Keats, “Letter to Fanny Brawne,” 8 July 1819
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once you develop that “it is what it is” mentality, a lot of things stop bothering you
Daphne Du Maurier, “The Lover”
Ustadha Maryam Amir
“You must bear it. The bad days mustn’t succumb you to the pain. Endure it. Let it give your future self a reason to look back and say, “How impossible it seemed to survive such misery, and yet, I did.””
— Megan Grant, from Solitude & the Sea
“And as I’ve gotten older, I’ve had more of a tendency to look for people who live by kindness, tolerance, compassion, a gentler way of looking at things.”
— Martin Scorsese
“I am awfully sentimental. Of books, belongings, people, places. It matters very little how positive or negative the experience was. If it shared some meaningful time in my life, I’ll have trouble letting go.”
— Beau Taplin, from “Sentimental,” Buried Light (Beau Taplin, 2016)
“So, here you are too foreign for home too foreign for here. Never enough for both.”
— Ijeoma Umebinyuo, Questions for Ada (via ohteenscanrelate)
*runs after garbage truck* WAIT!!!!! YOU FORGOT ME!!!!!
“For you, I was a chapter. For me, you were the book.”
— Tom McNeal (via purplebuddhaquotes)
“You—you strange—you almost unearthly thing!—I love you as my own flesh.”
— Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë (via soracities)
when you realize you are truly alone - no partner, no family, no friend - no one to express or understand the deepest parts of you (since it’s not their job to do so), you will find sweetness in the silent pause, the moments that you alone experience with your lord as your companion, testifying that it’s always been between you two anyway. every interaction, every moment of your life is not yours or spent on or with another person, but rather a constant dialogue with the beloved who lives within and without…
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