“But listen to me. For one moment
quit being sad. Hear blessings
dropping their blossoms
around you.” —Rumi (via delucazade)
quit being sad. Hear blessings
dropping their blossoms
around you.” —Rumi (via delucazade)
December 2011
43 posts
“Everybody has a secret world inside of them. All of the people of the world, I mean everybody. No matter how dull and boring they are on the outside, inside them they’ve all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds. Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands maybe.”
—Neil Gaiman (via modernhepburn)
“Modesty and shyness may be the most underrated virtues of modern society.”
—(via abdulbary)
“Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.”
—Buddha (via whimsicalele)
“You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.”
—Buddha (via lazyyogi)
“I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know?”
—Ernest Hemingway (via yuekatou)
“All day I think about it, then at night I say it. Where did I come from, and what am I supposed to be doing? I have no idea. My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that, and I intend to end up there.”
—“Who Says Words With My Mouth?”, Rumi (via moon-drunk)
“People run from rain but
sit
in bathtubs full of
water.” —Charles Bukowski (via inherwar)
sit
in bathtubs full of
water.” —Charles Bukowski (via inherwar)
“People are strange: they are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice.”
—-Charles Bukowski, The Last Night of the Earth (via chelsahhdelic)
“I’m grateful for anything that reminds me of what’s possible in this life. Books can do that. Films can do that. Music can do that. School can do that. It’s so easy to allow one day to simply follow into the next, but every once in a while we encounter something that shows us that anything is possible, that dramatic change is possible, that something new can be made, that laughter can be shared.”
—-Jonathan Safran Foer (via whendustdances)
“To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and to endure the betrayal of false friends. To appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (via thelittlephilosopher)
“May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you’re wonderful, and don’t forget to make some art — write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.”
—Neil Gaiman (via boxofoctaves)
“It’s amazing how you can get so far from where you’d planned, and yet find it was exactly where you needed to be.”
—Sarah Dessen (via girlwithoutwings)
