je ne sais quoi

Adversity is like a strong wind. I don’t mean just that it holds us back from a place we might otherwise go. It also tears us from things that cannot be torn , so that afterward we see ourselves as we really are, and not merely as we might like to be.

— Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha (via jayalzacee)

You should eat to fill your stomach, not your soul. And drink to numb your thirst, not your pain.

— via: I wrote this for you (via kari-shma) (via quote-book)

syntheticpubes:

Fuck Buttons — “The Lisbon Maru”

laurataylor:

This song makes me want to drive on the highway at night across the country and get drunk and laugh until it hurts and make-out and climb a hill and watch the sun rise and roll down the hill and scrape my knees and hug you until it hurts and think about how pleasant it feels to be young and broke and messed up and utterly alone and completely apart of something really big and important and never being able to explain that.

Sticks and stones are hard on bones, aimed with angry art, words can sting like anything but silence breaks the heart.

— 

Phyllis McGinley

(Submitted by: Alanna)

(via quote-book)

raindropsonredroses:

followandreblog:

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

— Aristotle (via kari-shma)

Some will make a moment feel like forever. But the people who really change your life are the ones that make forever, feel like a moment.

— via: I wrote this for you (via kari-shma) (via quote-book)

I’ve learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow. I’ve learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way he/she handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights. I’ve learned that regardless of your relationship with your parents, you’ll miss them when they’re gone from your life. I’ve learned that making a “living” is not the same thing as making a “life.” I’ve learned that life sometimes gives you a second chance. I’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catcher’s mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back. I’ve learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision. I’ve learned that even when I have pains, I don’t have to be one. I’ve learned that every day you should reach out and touch someone. People love a warm hug, or just a friendly pat on the back. I’ve learned that I still have a lot to learn. I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

— Maya Angelou (via julie911) (via quote-book)

To need someone more than you want is insecurity. To want someone more than you need them is lust. Love is when you need and want someone in your life in equal amounts.

— (via raindropsonredroses)

jayalzacee:

You learn to like someone when you find out what makes them laugh, but you can never truly love someone until you find out what makes them cry.

kari-shma:

Our Hut through the Passage of Time (via Cap’n Surly)

(via papertissue)

kari-shma:

Mandarin Oriental Riviera Maya by Gilberto Borja

Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive.

— Josephine Hart (via julie911) (via quote-book)

Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld (via quote-book)