897 notes "Once the storm is over you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, in fact, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about."
— Haruki Murakami
— Haruki Murakami
(Source: in-finitus, via brookesierra)
5,074 notes "Go be that starving Artist you’re afraid to be. Open up that journal and get poetic finally. Volunteer. Suck it up and travel. You were not born here to work and pay taxes. You were put here to be part of a vast organism to explore and create. Stop putting it off. The world has much more to offer than what’s on 15 televisions at TGI Fridays. Take pictures. Scare people. Shake up the scene. Be the change you want to see in the world. You’ll thank yourself for it."
— Jason Mraz
— Jason Mraz
(via hip-)
35 notes "I have, let’s say, sixty years to live. Most of that time will be spent working. I’ve chosen the work I want to do. If I find no joy in it, then I’m only condemning myself to sixty years of torture. And I can find the joy only if I do my work in the best way possible to me. But the best is a matter of standards - and I set my own standards. I inherit nothing. I stand at the end of no tradition. I may perhaps stand at the beginning of one."
— Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
— Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
(Source: honeychurch, via underfundig)
56 notes "When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others."
— Peace Pilgrim
— Peace Pilgrim
(Source: justalittlegreen)
19 notes "I want to taste the glory in each day, and never be afraid to experience pain; and never shut myself up in a numb core of nonfeeling, or stop questioning and criticizing life and take the easy way out. To learn and think: to think and live; to live and learn: this always, with new insight, new understanding, and new love."
— Sylvia Plath
— Sylvia Plath
(Source: inrestless-dreams, via brookesierra)
1,120 notes "But don’t forget who you really are. And I’m not talking about your so-called real name. All names are made up by someone else, even the one your parents gave you. You know who you really are. When you’re alone at night, looking up at the stars, or maybe lying in your bed in total darkness, you know that nameless person inside you…Your muscles will toughen. So will your heart and soul. That’s necessary for survival. But don’t lose touch with that person deep inside you, or else you won’t really have survived at all."
— Louis Sachar
— Louis Sachar
(Source: thatswhatthewatergaveus, via free-wilderness)
503 notes "All my life I’ve felt on the outside wherever I am, out of the picture, the conversation, at one remove, as though I was the only one able to hear the sounds or words that others can’t and deaf to the words that they seem to hear. As if I’m outside the frame, on the other side of a huge, invisible window."
— Delphine de Vigan, No and Me
— Delphine de Vigan, No and Me
(via underfundig)
