"People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings most of all. People talk about how great love is, but that’s bullshit. Love hurts. Feelings are disturbing. People are taught that pain is evil and dangerous. How can they deal with love if they’re afraid to feel? Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they’re wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength in the experience of pain. It’s all in how you carry it. That’s what matters. Pain is a feeling. Your feelings are a part of you. Your own reality. If you feel ashamed of them, and hide them, you’re letting society destroy your reality. You should stand up for your right to feel your pain."
- Jim Morrison (via Words & Lyrics)
(Source: quote-book)
"When you blame and criticize others, you are avoiding some truth about yourself."
- Deepak Chopra (via yearslater)
"Instead of thinking that there was no future, all I did was plan for the future, treating the present tense and all its tension like a lengthy, labored preamble to a real life that awaited me somewhere, anywhere else but here."
- Elizabeth Wurtzel (via creatingaquietmind)
(Source: leslieseuffert)
"Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead."
- Charles Bukowski (via light-essence)
(Source: quote-book)
"Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead."
- Charles Bukowski (via light-essence)
(Source: quote-book)
"You closed your eyes. That was the difference. Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them, too — even when you’re in the dark. Even when you’re falling."
- “Tuesdays with Morrie” by Mitch Albom (via julie911)
"You closed your eyes. That was the difference. Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them, too — even when you’re in the dark. Even when you’re falling."
- “Tuesdays with Morrie” by Mitch Albom (via julie911)
"How much of my brain is wilfully my own? How much is not a rubber stamp of what I have read and heard and lived? Sure, I make a sort of synthesis of what I come across, but that is all that differentiates me from another person?"
- Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath (via thievess)
"Love, they say, enslaves and passion is a demon and many have been lost for love. I know this is true, but I know too that without love we grope the tunnels of our lives and never see the sun."
- Jeanette Winterson, The Passion (via helplesslyamazed)
(Source: quote-book)
"Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know."
- Ernest Hemingway (via girlwithoutwings)
(Source: quote-book)
"The bad news is, your choices and intentions, some people and places, those nights spent awake and all you’ve done, can lead you to the bottom of the pit.
The good news is, this wouldn’t be the first time someone’s crawled, tooth and nail, out of hell."
The good news is, this wouldn’t be the first time someone’s crawled, tooth and nail, out of hell."
- I Wrote This For You: The Ground Will Give Way via (roscoe-)
(Source: quote-book)
"Don’t be so damn hard on yourself. Yeah, you screwed up. You’re not perfect, fine. Learn from it. But don’t punish yourself. Be kind to you, even when you screw up. You’ll bounce back eventually. You’ll make up for it."
- Stephanie Klein (via kari-shma)
(Source: kari-shma)
"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing."
- Albert Einstein (via kari-shma)
(Source: kari-shma)
"Life is painful and messed up. It gets complicated at the worst of times, and sometimes you have no idea where to go or what to do. Lots of times people just let themselves get lost, dropping into a wide open, huge abyss. But that’s why we have to keep trying. We have to push through all that hurts us, work past all our memories that are haunting us. Sometimes the things that hurt us are the things that make us strongest. A life without experience, in my opinion, is no life at all. And that’s why I tell everyone that, even when it hurts, never stop yourself from living."
- Alysha Speer (via julie911)
