“Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.”
— Henry Ward Beecher
““Even when I think I’m doing the right thing somehow it still ends up being wrong.””
— - I’m never right.
“I’ve also seen that great men are often lonely. This is understandable, because they have built such high standards for themselves that they often feel alone. But that same loneliness is part of their ability to create.”
— Yousuf Karsh
“Do you ever wonder how much you exist in other people’s lives? I’m always curious if people think of me when a certain song comes on, or when they pass through a certain town. I wonder how many stories I’ve been a part of that I may have forgotten. I wonder if I still exist in the minds of people that I don’t speak to anymore. I wonder how many times a day I pass through someone’s head.”
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little-ms-spooky“I would want to rest, it seems to me, for all the remainder of my life.”
Franz Kafka, from The Complete Stories; “The Burrow,” published c. 1931
(via violentwavesofemotion)
“From a very young age, I knew the kind of woman I wanted to become: independent.”
— Diane von Furstenberg
“Some people are artists. Some themselves, are art.”
— Unknown
adrenaline“You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations (via flame)
“Please don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand.”
— Sylvia Plath
I no longer have the energy for meaningless friendships, forced interactions or unnecessary conversations.
Unknown
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Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal. - Jean-Paul Sartre
(via thelifeisabsurd)
I like art, and by art I mean music, poetry, sex, paintings, the human body, literature… All of this is art to me.
Hunter Reveur (via yoursly)
How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then to rest afterward.
Spanish Proverb
(via loveage-moondream)
Take a shower, wash off the day. Drink a glass of water. Make the room dark. Lie down and close your eyes. Notice the silence. Notice your heart. Still beating. Still fighting. You made it, after all. You made it, another day. And you can make it one more. You’re doing just fine.
Since childhood I’ve been faithful to monsters. I’ve been saved and absolved by them because monsters are the patron saints of our blissful imperfections.
Guillermo del Toro in his Golden Globe acceptance speech. (via shapeofh2o)
We pour our hearts out for the sake of sanity
(via trappedinyourgayz)
In the land of gods and monsters, I was an angel, lookin’ to get fucked hard.
Lana Del Rey - Gods & Monsters
(via feel-the-lyrics)
I want to make Romeo jealous. I want the dead lovers of the world to hear our laughter and grow sad. I want a breath of our passion to stir their dust into consciousness, to wake their ashes into pain.
The Picture of Dorian Gray (via loveage-moondream)
And though she is but little, she is fierce.
William Shakespeare (via slytherins-slither)
I’ve lost the concept of a weekend… I’m not up to date with what day it is very often