There are people who cannot resist the desire to get into a cage with wild beasts and be mangled.
Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer (via rabbitinthemoon)
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The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.
Dante Alighieri - Dante’s Inferno (via colourthysoul)
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You can do really awful things when you are bored, things that are bound to make you miserable. In fact, you do them in order to become miserable, so you won’t have to be bored anymore.
Sam Savage, Firmin: Adventures of a Metropolitan Lowlife (via simply-quotes)
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The worst part about being strong is that no one ever asks if you’re okay.
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We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit.
Audre Lorde (via loveyourchaos)
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But do you know what happens to girls who love lost boys? They become lost themselves. Without fail.
David Levithan (via creatingaquietmind)
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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
Michel de Montaigne (via samsaranmusing)
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Being born a woman is an awful tragedy. Yes, my consuming desire to mingle with road crews, sailors and soldiers, bar room regulars—to be a part of a scene, anonymous, listening, recording —all is spoiled by the fact that I am a girl, a female always in danger of assault and battery. My consuming interest in men and their lives is often misconstrued as a desire to seduce them, or as an invitation to intimacy. Yet, God, I want to talk to everybody I can as deeply as I can. I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night.
Sylvia Plath (via oh-girl-among-the-roses)
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Stop letting people who do so little for you control so much of your mind, feelings, and emotions.
Will Smith (via beefysquirrelz)
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You are so used to the support of concepts that when your concepts leave you, although it is your true state, you get frightened and try to cling to them again.
Nisargadatta Maharaj (via ashramof1)
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Sin lies only in hurting others unnecessarily. All other “sins” are invented nonsense.
Lazarus Long, Time Enough for Love (via larmoyante)
We’ve got a sort of brainwashing going on in our country, Morrie sighed. Do you know how they brainwash people? They repeat something over and over. And that’s what we do in this country. Owning things is good. More money is good. More property is good. More commercialism is good. More is good. More is good. We repeat it—and have it repeated to us—over and over until nobody bothers to even think otherwise. The average person is so fogged up by all of this, he has no perspective on what’s really important anymore.
Wherever I went in my life, I met people wanting to gobble up something new. Gobble up a new car. Gobble up a new piece of property. Gobble up the latest toy. And then they wanted to tell you about it. ‘Guess what I got? Guess what I got?’
You know how I interpreted that? These were people so hungry for love that they were accepting substitutes. They were embracing material things and expecting a sort of hug back. But it never works. You can’t substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship.
Money is not a substitute for tenderness, and power is not a substitute for tenderness. I can tell you, as I’m sitting here dying, when you most need it, neither money nor power will give you the feeling you’re looking for, no matter how much of them you have.
Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie (via atramentum)
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Now all you can do is wait. It must be hard for you, but there is a right time for everything. Like the ebb and flow of tides. No one can do anything to change them. When it is time to wait, you must wait.
Haruki Murakami/ The Wind Up Bird Chronicle (via vous-trouvez)
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You will go on and meet someone else and I’ll just be a chapter in your tale, but for me, you were, you are and you always will be, the whole story.
Marian Keyes, The Other Side of the Story (via simply-quotes)
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Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and you watch and you work: You don’t give up.
Anne Lamott (via quote-book)
