February 2012
I envy you your peace of mind, your clean conscience, your unpolluted memory....
– Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre (via selfinspiration)
There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.
– Albert Schweitzer (via forbiddenalleys)
Never apologize for your own sense of beauty. Nobody can tell you what you...
– Cheryl Jacobs Nicolai (via habitualtides)
Time is the longest distance between two places.
– Tennessee Williams (via human-voices)
Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to...
– Aldous Huxley (via 500daysofkissingmypillow)
If my travels have taught me anything it’s that places, like people, are a...
– Andrew McMahon (via moreofamore)
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Read not to contradict, nor to believe, but to weigh and consider.
– Francis Bacon - Of Studies (via gwyon)
You cut up a thing that’s alive and beautiful to find out how it’s alive and why...
– Clive Barker (via selfinspiration)
To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery.
– Charles Baudelaire
I think books are like people, in the sense that they’ll turn up in your life...
– Emma Thompson (via theprobablestars)
Whenever you think or you believe or you know, you’re a lot of other people: but...
– E.E. Cummings (via explaterate)
Forever is composed of nows.
– Emily Dickinson (via girlwithoutwings)
There is an ache in my heart for the imagined beauty of a life I haven’t had,...
– Robert Goolrick (via magicclouds)
How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then to rest afterward.
– Spanish Proverb (via fernsandmoss)
…perhaps in dreams shall we meet
as dried flowers are chanced upon pressed...
– Ahmed Faraz (via fernsandmoss)
Cosmos is a Greek word for the order of the universe. It is, in a way, the...
– Carl Sagan (via hip-)
Would you be offended if I said that you seem to me to be in every way the...
– Oscar Wilde (via woodlace)
Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist.
– George Carlin (via larmoyante)
You’ll always be on the sunny side of my heart.
– Millencolin (via quotewhore) (via equuleux)
The relationship of a girl and her favorite novel can be complex indeed.
– Andrea Cremer (via amandaonwriting)
Everyone deserves a little bit of an adventure.
– Jewel Fristed (Me)
Lost love is still love. It takes a different form, that’s all. You can’t see...
– Mitch Albom (via explaterate)
These woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles...
– Robert Frost, from Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening (via libraryland)
The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
– Virginia Woolf (via platea)