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  1. "This was her life. Not the life she had once dreamed of, not a life her younger self would ever have imagined or desired, but the life she was living, with all its complexities. This was her life, built with care and attention, and it was good."
    — The Memory Keeper’s Daughter, Kim Edwards (via word-collector)
     
  2. "One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats."
    — Iris Murdoch, via vmburkhardt

    (Source: realsimple.com)

     

  3. The Art of Drowning: Forgetfulness

    The name of the author is the first to go
    followed obediently by the title, the plot,
    the heartbreaking conclusion, the entire novel
    which suddenly becomes one you have never read,
    never even heard of,

    as if, one by one, the memories you used to harbor
    decided to retire to the southern hemisphere…

    Billy Collins

    via the art-of-drowning:

    (Source: poemhunter.com)

     
  4. "Wealth without work
    Pleasure without conscience
    Science without humanity
    Knowledge without character
    Politics without principle
    Commerce without morality
    Worship without sacrifice."
    — Mahatma Gandhi, “Seven Deadly Sins,” via journalofanobody
     
  5. "Humankind cannot take too much reality."
    — T. S. Eliot, via jesuisperdu
     
  6. "When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don’t seem to matter very much, do they?"
    — Virginia Woolf (via funeral)

    (Source: serialstranger)

     
  7. "Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it. But it’s not. It takes patience, it takes commitment, and it comes with plenty of failure along the way. The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won’t. It’s whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere."
    — Barack Obama (via creatingaquietmind)

    (Source: anditslove)

     
  8. "Many people, especially ignorant people, want to punish you for speaking the truth, for being correct, for being you. Never apologize for being correct, or for being years ahead of your time. If you’re right and you know it, speak your mind. Speak your mind. Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is still the truth."
    — Mohandas Karamchand Ghandi (via cultureofresistance)

    (Source: miszpania)

     
  9. "As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death."
    — Leonardo Da Vinci (Italian polymath—painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventory, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, and writer, 1452-1519)

    (Source: breadtothefamished)

     
  10. The World’s Fair at Night, 1900, by Giacomo Balla, via missfolly

    The World’s Fair at Night, 1900, by Giacomo Balla, via missfolly

     
  11. "Homesickness is just a state of mind for me. I’m always missing someone or someplace or something, I’m always trying to get back to some imaginary somewhere. My life has been one long longing."
    — Elizabeth Wurtzel (via misswallflower)
     
  12. "Love who you love while you have them. That’s all you can do. Let them go when you must. If you know how to love, you’ll never run out."
    — Ann Brashares, My Name Is Memory (via simply-quotes)
     
  13. "As a rule, men worry more about what they can’t see than about what they can."
    — Julius Caesar (Roman general and statesman, 100 B.C.-44 B.C.)

    (Source: breadtothefamished)

     
  14. "All cruelty springs from weakness"
    — Seneca, 4BC-AD65 (via incurablysensitive)

    (Source: embracetheenigmatic)

     
  15. Our days were a joy and our paths through flowers, by David Inshaw, via journalofanobody

    Our days were a joy and our paths through flowers, by David Inshaw, via journalofanobody