Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day.
— Charles Dickens, Great Expectations (via bookmania)
We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit.
— Audre Lorde (via allthingssoulful)
So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.
— John Green, Looking for Alaska (via bookmania)
- John Lennon: When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.
I believe that life is a journey towards God, and that no one has the right to insist that you go a certain road.
— Pat Buckley (via myquotelibrary)
Why are people sad? That’s simple. They are the prisoners of their personal history. Everyone believes that the main aim in life is to follow a plan. They never ask if that plan is theirs or if it was created by another person. They accumulate experiences, memories, things, other people’s ideas, and it is more than they can possibly cope with. And that is why they forget their dreams.
— Paulo Coelho (via selfinspiration)
Read books. Care about things. Get excited. Try not to be too down on youself. Enjoy the ever present game of knowing.
— Hank Green (via booksandnerds)
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