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A bouquet of clumsy words: you know that place between sleep and awake where you’re still dreaming but it’s slowly slipping? I wish we could feel like that more often. I also wish I could click my fingers three times and be transported to anywhere I like. I wish that people didn’t always say ‘just wondering’ when you both know there was a real reason behind them asking. And I wish I could get lost in the stars.
Listen, there’s a hell of a good universe next door, let’s go.
"— E.E. Cummings (via wordsthat-speak)
(via wordsthat-speak)
"Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive."
— Josephine Hart (via quote-book)
"I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary."
— Margaret Atwood (via kitty-en-classe)
(via kitty-en-classe)
(via inspiring-pictures)
(via inspiring-pictures)
We can always choose to perceive things differently. You can focus on what’s wrong in your life or you can focus on what’s right. - Marianne Williamson
We have the ability to create our own reality. For the most part, we can look at a situation and see the good or we can look at the same…
Rainer Maria Rilke - Letters to a Young Poet
This post is for Anon who’s lost The Love of His or Her Life.
It’s also for anyone else who needs it.
I read it myself from time to time and it helps me feel better about situations I feel will never improve. In fact, just typing it out now for you I found myself feeling a little better too.
So, for anyone who’s having an especially rough time of it, and to my particular Anon,
I hope it helps.
Good luck, and all my very best.
~Alec
"I am here to tell you that there are people who have never been defeated.
They are the ones who have never fought.
They managed to avoid scars, humiliations, and feelings of helplessness, as well as those moments when even warriors doubt the existence of God.
Such people can say with pride: “I have never lost a battle.” On the other hand, they can never say: “I have won a battle.”
Not that they care. They live in a universe in which they believe they are invulnerable; they close their eyes to injustices and suffering; they feel safe because they do not have to deal with daily challenges faced by those who risk stepping out of their own boundaries.
They have never heard the words “good-bye” or “I’ve come back. Embrace me with the fervor of someone who, having lost me, has found me again."
They are the ones who have never fought.
They managed to avoid scars, humiliations, and feelings of helplessness, as well as those moments when even warriors doubt the existence of God.
Such people can say with pride: “I have never lost a battle.” On the other hand, they can never say: “I have won a battle.”
Not that they care. They live in a universe in which they believe they are invulnerable; they close their eyes to injustices and suffering; they feel safe because they do not have to deal with daily challenges faced by those who risk stepping out of their own boundaries.
They have never heard the words “good-bye” or “I’ve come back. Embrace me with the fervor of someone who, having lost me, has found me again."
— Paulo Coelho. Manuscript Found in Accra (via echo4charlie)
"‘Sometimes when I look at you, I feel I’m gazing at a distant star,’ I said. ‘It’s dazzling, but the light is from tens of thousands of years ago. Maybe the star doesn’t even exist anymore. Yet sometimes that light seems more real to me than anything.’"
— Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun (via durianquotes)
