You must write every single day of your life. You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads. May you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.Ray Bradbury
“Pain is a relatively objective, physical phenomenon; suffering is our psychological resistance to what happens. Events may create physical pain, but they do not in themselves create suffering. Resistance creates suffering. Stress happens when your mind resists what is… The only problem in your life is your mind’s resistance to life as it unfolds. ”
Dan Millman
In other news, how great is this? One of my favorite Pride and Prejudice quotes on a mug! Pinterest never fails me with new craft ideas.
Most importantly, if you can at all avoid it, don’t be normal. Strive, burn and do everything you can to avoid being the industry standard. Even the highest industry standard. Be greater than anything anyone else has ever dreamed of you. Don’t settle for pats on the back, salary increases, a nod-and-a-smile. Instead, rage against the tepidness of the mundane with every fiber of whatever makes you, you. Change this place.I Wrote This For You: The Defiance Of The Different
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Then the gates of his heart were flung open, and his joy flew far over the sea.Khalil Gibran, The Prophet
When summer comes to Chicago, there are no problems except where to be happiest.(via cassieirwin)
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There is nothing wrong with loving the crap out of everything. Negative people find their walls. So never apologize for your enthusiasm. Never. Ever. Never.Ryan Adams
When you’re in your early twenties, you feel all this pressure to be accomplished. What you don’t realize is that every job and experience helps you figure out what you really want to do.Taylor Sterling of Glitter Guide and Sterling Style
“Homesickness is just a state of mind for me. I’m always missing someone or someplace or something, I’m always trying to get back to some imaginary somewhere. My life has been one long longing.”
Elizabeth Wurtzel
If my travels have taught me anything it’s that places, like people, are a combination of flawed and beautiful, but most are worthy of one’s time, exploration, forgiveness and defense. No one place is perfect, but then again, what truly beautiful thing is?Andrew McMahon
“I wish I heard more waxing poetic about the person who is there for them in ugly moments. I want to hear about the glowing feeling that consumes us if we only stop to consider how magical and how precious it is — someone loves us for who we are, in all our forms, at every time of day. Someone wants to be there for us when it isn’t easy, when it isn’t convenient, and when the electricity of the new has worn off. This “boring” love, as we can sometimes consider it, is only as mundane or as familiar as we allow it to be.”
“Three Cheers for Boring Love” by Chelsea Fagan
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Like prayer — you go to it in sorrow more than joy, for help, a road back to grace.Anne Morrow Lindbergh, on writing (via live-to-the-point-of-tears)
Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
People who have only good experiences aren’t very interesting. They may be content, and happy after a fashion, but they aren’t very deep. It may seem a misfortune now, and it makes things difficult, but well, it’s easy to feel all the happy, simple stuff. Not that happiness is necessarily simple. But I don’t think you’re going to have a life like that, and I think you’ll be the better for it. The difficult thing is to not be overwhelmed by the bad patches. You must not let them defeat you. You must see them as a gift—a cruel gift, but a gift nonetheless.
“Someday This Pain Will Be Useful To You” by Peter Cameron
