Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain. —Jack Kerouac (via
polinomial)
Comfort can be a dangerous thing. You stick around home all the time where it’s safe and nothing ever changes, and before you know it, you get set in your ways and you quit learning, you quit changing, you don’t grow anymore. —
Monster, Frank Peretti (via
creatingaquietmind)
I’ve found that, ultimately, if you truly pour your heart into what you believe in, even if it makes you vulnerable, amazing things can and will happen. —Emma Watson, MTV Movie Awards 2013 (via
darlingratchet)
And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it. —Roald Dahl (via
larmoyante)
I said never apologize for how you feel. No one can control how they feel. The sun doesn’t apologize for being the sun. The rain doesn’t say sorry for falling. Feelings just are. —Iain S. Thomas,
Intentional Dissonance (via
pale-afternoon)
I am afraid of getting older … I am afraid of getting married. Spare me from cooking three meals a day—spare me from the relentless cage of routine and rote. I want to be free…. I want, I want to think, to be omniscient…. I think I would like to call myself ‘The girl who wanted to be God.’ —Sylvia Plath
written in 1949 at age 17 (via
hateshiploveship)
I’m not gonna sit around and waste my precious divine energy trying to explain and be ashamed of things you think are wrong with me. —Esperanza Spalding (via
jlmillered)
We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken. —Fydor Dostoevsky (via
joydivisions)
My grandkids always beat me at Rock Band. And I say, “Listen, you may beat me at Rock Band, but I made the original records, so shut up. —Paul McCartney ( New York Times. February, 2013 )
