November 2011
“Words can never fully say what we want them to say, for they fumble, stammer, and break the best porcelain. The best one can hope for is to find along the way someone to share the path, content to walk in silence, for the heart communes best when it does not try to speak.”
—Unknown (via aquaticuss)
“There are people whose deaths make you ache with sadness. And then there are people whose deaths prevent the sun from rising, deaths that turn the walls black in every room you walk through, deaths that send storm clouds and a wail swirling through your head so that you can’t hear music and you can’t recognize your furniture or your own face in the mirror.”
—Love Walked In, Marisa de los Santos (via effyeahliteraryquotes)
“It’s really a wonder that I haven’t dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.”
—The Diary of a Young Girl, Anne Frank (via effyeahliteraryquotes)
“I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder”
—GK Chesterton
“If nothing saves us from death, at least love should save us from life.”
—Pablo Neruda (via cordisre)
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
—Lao Tzu (via kari-shma)
“Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.”
—Ray Bradbury (via kari-shma)
“Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled. You’ve got to relax, let it happen at times, and at others move forward with it.”
—Ray Bradbury (via kari-shma)
“I have a theory that as long as you have one good friend, one real friend, you can get through anything.”
—“How to Build a House” by Dana Reinhardt (via julie911)
