effervescent lyricism

"If this girl can give a soul to those who have lived without one, if she can create the sense of..."

Fri, 09 Nov 2012 22:04:23 -0500

“If this girl can give a soul to those who have lived without one, if she can create the sense of beauty in people whose lives have been sordid and ugly, if she can strip them of their selfishness and lend them tears for sorrows that are not their own, she is worthy of all your adoration, worthy of the adoration of the world.”

- Oscar Wilde (via moan-we-are-alone)

“I exist as I am, that is enough.” ― Walt Whitman

Sat, 03 Nov 2012 08:13:07 -0400

“I exist as I am, that is enough.”

― Walt Whitman

“Do anything, but let it produce joy.” ― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

Sat, 03 Nov 2012 08:12:01 -0400

“Do anything, but let it produce joy.”

― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

"Imagine me; I shall not exist if you do not imagine me; try to discern the doe in me, trembling in..."

Sat, 03 Nov 2012 08:07:42 -0400

“Imagine me; I shall not exist if you do not imagine me; try to discern the doe in me, trembling in the forest of my own iniquity; let’s even smile a little. After all, there is no harm in smiling.”

- Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov (via dialogues)

"I began to draw an invisible boundary between myself and other people. No matter who I was dealing..."

Sat, 03 Nov 2012 08:04:00 -0400

“I began to draw an invisible boundary between myself and other people. No matter who I was dealing with. I maintained a set distance, carefully monitoring the person’s attitude so that they wouldn’t get any closer. I didn’t easily swallow what other people told me. My only passions were books and music.”

- Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart (via bookmania)

"You are not in this world to live up to other people’s expectations, nor should you feel the world..."

Sat, 16 Jun 2012 05:59:06 -0400

“You are not in this world to live up to other people’s expectations, nor should you feel the world must live up to yours.”

- F Perl. (via myquotelibrary)

"Growing old is unavoidable, but never growing up is possible. I believe you can retain certain..."

Sat, 16 Jun 2012 05:58:12 -0400

“Growing old is unavoidable, but never growing up is possible. I believe you can retain certain things from your childhood if you protect them - certain traits, certain places where you don’t let the world go.”

- Johnny Depp (via nathanielstuart)

Anyone who has lost something they thought was theirs forever finally comes to realise that nothing...

Wed, 23 May 2012 07:43:21 -0400

Anyone who has lost something they thought was theirs forever finally comes to realise that nothing really belongs to them.

-Paulo Coelho

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost. -G.K. Chesterton

Wed, 23 May 2012 07:33:17 -0400

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

-G.K. Chesterton

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside while still alive....

Wed, 23 May 2012 07:32:35 -0400

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside while still alive. Never surrender.

-Tupac Shakur

“I could tell you my adventures—beginning from this morning,” said Alice a little timidly; “but it’s...

Wed, 23 May 2012 07:30:59 -0400

“I could tell you my adventures—beginning from this morning,” said Alice a little timidly; “but it’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”

- Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass

“Maturity is simply the process of discovering that everything you believed in when you were young...

Sat, 19 May 2012 04:05:52 -0400

“Maturity is simply the process of discovering that everything you believed in when you were young is false and that all the things you refused to believe in turn out to be true.”

- Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Midnight Palace

I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed...

Tue, 08 May 2012 09:59:01 -0400

I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary.

- Margaret Atwood

“To douchebags!” he said, gesturing to Brad. “And to girls that break your heart,”...

Tue, 08 May 2012 09:57:09 -0400

“To douchebags!” he said, gesturing to Brad. “And to girls that break your heart,” he bowed his head to me. His eyes lost focus. “And to the absolute fucking horror of losing your best friend because you were stupid enough to fall in love with her.”

- Jamie McGuire, Beautiful Disaster

I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. And it’s these...

Tue, 08 May 2012 09:52:03 -0400

I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. And it’s these things I’d believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn’t all she should be. I love her and it is the beginning of everything.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy...

Tue, 08 May 2012 07:56:15 -0400

“Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

“People often claim to hunger for truth, but seldom like the taste when it’s served...

Tue, 08 May 2012 06:40:07 -0400

“People often claim to hunger for truth, but seldom like the taste when it’s served up.”

- George R. R. Martin, A Clash of Kings

“Truth without love is brutality, and love without truth is hypocrisy.” -Warren Wiersbe

Tue, 08 May 2012 06:15:53 -0400

“Truth without love is brutality, and love without truth is hypocrisy.”

-Warren Wiersbe

"Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swaps of the not-quite,..."

Tue, 08 May 2012 06:10:18 -0400

“Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swaps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists, it is real. It is possible, it’s yours.”

- Ayn Rand (Atlas Shrugged)

"The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick..."

Sat, 05 May 2012 03:31:03 -0400

“The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people.”

- Randy Pausch (The Last Lecture)