"You have galaxies inside your head. Stop letting people tell you that you cannot shine." - cudah (via tumblr)

"Be daring, be different, be impractical. Be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary." - Cecil Beaton

"If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world." - C.S. Lewis

"Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible." - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

"Some people are artists. Some, themselves, are art." - itsfahad (via tumblr)

"Do you know what I was smiling about? You wrote down that you were a writer by profession. It sounded to me like the loveliest euphemism I had ever heard. When was writing ever your profession? It's never been anything but your religion." - J.D. Salinger

"Anyone who says they have only one life to live must not know how to read a book." - Anonymous

"Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn." - Gore Vidal

"Writing is a solitary business. It takes over your life. In some sense, a writer has no life of his own. Even when he's there, he's not really there." - Paul Auster

"You know how writers are... they create themselves as they create their work. Or perhaps they create their work in order to create themselves." - Orson Scott Card

"I have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the drain and I am quite free." - Georgia O'Keeffe

"Don't ever feel bad for making a decision that upsets other people. You are not responsible for their happiness. You are responsible for your happiness." - Isaiah Henkel

"If there's a book you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it." - Toni Morrison

"Some people are born with tornados in their lives, but constellations in their eyes. Other people are born with stars at their feet, but their souls are lost at sea." - Nikita Gill, Perspectives

"Your identity should be so secure that when someone walks away from you they don't take you with them." - Unknown

"You know you're on the right track when you become uninterested in looking back." - Unknown

"Finding your passion isn't just about careers and money. It's about finding your authentic self - the one you've buried beneath other people's needs." - Kristin Hannah

"My father had taught me to be nice first, because you can always be mean later, but once you've been mean to someone, they won't believe the nice anymore. So be nice, be nice, until it's time to stop being nice, then destroy them." - Laurell K. Hamilton

"What you think of yourself is much more important than what people think of you." - Seneca

"One of the risks of being quiet is that other people can fill your silence with their own interpretation: You're bored. You're depressed. You're shy. You're stuck up. You're judgmental. When others can't read us, they write their own story - not always the one we choose or that's true to who we are." - Sophia Dembling, The Introvert's Way

"There are two reasons why people don't talk about things; either it doesn't mean anything to them, or it means everything." - Luna Adriana

"All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours." - Aldous Huxley

"You can't keep the birds of sadness from flying over your head, but you can keep them from nesting in your hair." - Sharon Creech, Walk Two Moons

"We mature with the damage, not the years." - Mateus William

"I am the sea and nobody owns me." - Pippi Longstocking (1997)

"So Einstein was wrong when he said, 'God does not play dice.' Consideration of black holes suggests, not only that God does play dice, but that he sometimes confuses us by throwing them where they can't be seen." - Stephen Hawking

"I don't give a fuck what people think because people don't think." - bl-ossomed (via tumblr)

"The inferiority of women is man-made." - American author, activist, and lecturer, Helen Keller (June 11, 1916)

"All the hardest, coldest people you meet were once as soft as water. And that's the tragedy of living." - I wrote this for you, pleasefindthis

"You never need to apologize for how you chose to survive." - Clementine von Radics

"You see, the world is not a cruel place. It's the humans who inhibit it who are cruel. Life is not cruel. It's the people around you who are cruel. So hate humans. Not the world. Not life." - Moi

"Pain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it." - Audre Lorde

"Reality can destroy the dream; why shouldn't the dream destroy reality?" - George Moore

"A friend isn't your friend until they defend you in your absence." - My mom is a wise woman, beerwiththeboys (via tumblr)

"Be the person you needed when you were younger." - Anonymous (the best advice you could ever give someone), indapendent (via tumblr)

"I like it when it rains hard. It sounds like white noise everywhere, which is like silence but not empty." - Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

"Just because your pain is understandable, doesn't mean your behavior is acceptable." - Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

"There is nothing more beautiful than nature early in the morning." - Vincent Van Gogh

"Day... night... It seems to me sometimes the earth must have got stuck, one sunless day, in the heart of winter, in the grey of evening." - Samuel Beckett, The Collected Shorter Plays

"I suppose the truth is I am not there, just not really there at all. I see, hear, smell, and so on, I go through the usual motions, but my heart is not in it..." - Samuel Beckett, The Collected Shorter Plays

"Art exists because life is not enough." - Ferreira Gullar

"It's easy to love someone when they're happy. What's hard is loving someone when they're crying on the bathroom floor at 2am because everything came crashing down at once." - bled (via tumblr)

"It was easy enough to kill yourself in a fit of despair. It was easy enough to play the martyr. It was harder to do nothing. To endure your life. To wait." - Erica Jong

"Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things." - Ray Bradbury

"Sometimes it feels better not to talk. At all. About anything. To anyone." - mirayama (via tumblr)

"Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live." - Norman Cousins

"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - Voltaire

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." - Ralph Emerson

"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently." - Friedrich Nietzche

"Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others." - Mark Twain

"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations beneath them." - Henry David Thoreau

"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire." - William Butler Yeats

"We are all geniuses, but if a goldfish is judged by his ability to climb a ladder, he will go his whole life believing he is stupid." - Albert Einstein

"Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too." - Voltaire

"Just remember that sometimes, the way you think a person isn't the way they actually are." - Harper Lee, To Kill A Mockingbird

"You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant." - Harlan Ellison

"Act like you trust people, but don't." - unvainly (via tumblr)

"If you consider a woman less pure after you've touched her, maybe you should look at your hands." - salacity (via tumblr)

"My philosophy is: It's none of my business what people say of me, and think of me. I am what I am, and I do what I do. I expect nothing, and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier." - Anthony Hopkins

"Ecstasy. From the Greek ekstasis. Meaning not what you think. Meaning not euphoria or sexual climax or even happiness. Meaning literally: a state of displacement, of being driven out of one's senses." - Jeffrey Eugenides

"And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter - they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long." - Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

"When a flower doesn't bloom, you fix the environment in which it grows, not the flower." - Alexander Den Heijer

"We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth." - Carl Gustav Jung

"The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves." - Alan Watts

"Risk is your only chance of really living. Safety is a fatal illusion; a slow-motion dream killer." - Bryan McGill

"Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do." - W.H. Auden

"Your inner peace is the greatest and most valuable treasure that you can discover." - Akin Olokun

"Everything in moderation, including reality." - Julz Millar

"Don't be afraid of being scared. To be afraid is a sign of common sense. Only complete idiots are not afraid of anything." - Carlos Ruiz Záfon

"Silence is the most powerful scream." - Anonymous

"Silence itself is strategy, a signed language, gorgeous, fluid in the hands of those who learned it in childhood." - Mary Jo Bang, from "Gretel", Apology for Want

"Religion has actually convinced people... that there's an invisible man, living in the sky, who watches everything you do, every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a special list of ten things he does not want you to do. And if you do any of these ten things he has a special place full of fire, and smoke and burning and torture, and anguish, where he will send you to live and suffer and burn and scream and cry forever and ever, until the end of time. But he loves you." - George Carlin

"No matter how honestly you open up to someone, there are still things you cannot reveal." - Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

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