August 2011
The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but that...
– Stanley Kubrick (via lastwaltzinvienna)
My heart was a hysterical, unreliable organ.
– Vladimir Nabokov (via bouquinerie)
How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?
– Boris Pasternak (via moldavia)
I met a wonderful new man! He’s fictional, but you can’t have everything.
– The Purple Rose of Cairo, Woody Allen (via moldavia)
Choosing to have fun in life is often more fruitful than chasing perfection.
– Garance Doré on Parisian spirit and lifestyle (via ladyposts)
July 2011
The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.
لا تكره أحداً مهما أخطأ في حقك
عش في بساطة مهما علا شأنك
توقع خيراً مهما كثر...
– الإمام علي بن أبي طالب
-Imam Ali ibn Abi Taleb
(via lotus-eyes)
The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are...
– Pessoa (via concerthall)
Be in this world as if you are a traveller, a passer-by, with your clothes and...
– (via concerthall)
Here is the deepest secret nobody knows. Here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows higher than soul can hope or mind can hide. And this is the wonder that’s keeping the stars apart… I carry your heart, I carry it in my heart.
-e.e cummings
What can I do with my happiness? How can I keep it, conceal it, bury it where I...
– Anaïs Nin. (via adieu-tristesse)
I don’t have awkward moments. I have an awkward life, occasionally interrupted...
– Robert Pattinson (via primavera-)
Constantly talking isn’t necessarily communicating.
– Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (via ramblingwoman78)
The woman who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The...
– Albert Einstein (via goodmorningnyc)