“The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.”
—W. S. Maugham (via screamcolours)
June 2011
May 2011
“Let there be spaces in your togetherness, And let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. Fill each other’s cup but drink not from one cup. Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf. Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone, Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music. Give your hearts, but not into each other’s keeping. For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts. And stand together, yet not too near together: For the pillars of the temple stand apart, And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other’s shadow.”
—Khalil Gibran (The Prophet)
“There’s some people in this world who you can just love and love and love no matter what.”
— John Green (An Abundance of Katherines)
“…people universally tend to think that happiness is a stroke of luck, something that maybe will descend upon you like fine weather if you’re fortunate enough. But that’s not how happiness works. Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings. And once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining it, you must make a mighty effort to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever, to stay afloat on top of it. If you don’t, you will leak away your innate contentment. It’s easy enough to pray when you’re in distress but continuing to pray even when your crisis has passed is like a sealing process, helping your soul hold tight to its good attainments.”
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray and Love (via quote-book)
‘Cause if we stand for nothing, we’ll fall for anything.
You're way too young to not believe it's going to be okay.
“So you were born, and that was a good day.
Someday you’ll die, and that is a shame.
But somewhere in the between was a life of which we all dream
And nothing and no one will ever take that away.” —Streetlight Manifesto, Somewhere in the Between (via quote-book)
Someday you’ll die, and that is a shame.
But somewhere in the between was a life of which we all dream
And nothing and no one will ever take that away.” —Streetlight Manifesto, Somewhere in the Between (via quote-book)
“Never let the demands of tomorrow interfere with the pleasures and excitement of today.”
—Meredith Willson (via quote-book)
