“There are times when it will go so wrong that you will barely be alive, and times when you realize that being barely alive, on your own terms, is better than living a bloated half-life on someone else’s terms” – Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? (via bookmania)
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“Sleep late, have fun, get wild, drink whiskey and drive fast on empty streets with nothing in mind except falling in love and not getting arrested.” – Hunter S. Thompson (via subconscious-experience)
“My point is: in this whole wide world the only person you can depend on is you.” – Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore (via buddhacoffee)
“Passion. It lies in all of us. Sleeping, waiting and though unwanted, unbidden, it will stir - open its jaws and howl. It speaks to us - guides us. Passion rules us all. And we obey. What other choice do we have? Passion is the source of our finest moments. The joy of love, the clarity of hatred, the ecstasy of grief. It hurts sometimes more than we can bear. If we could live without passion, maybe we’d know some kind of peace. But we would be hollow. Empty rooms, shuttered and dank. Without passion - we’d be truly dead.” – Joss Whedon (via floralnymph)
“Be for once a white boat adrift, in debt to no lighthouse.” – Robin Hyde (via mirroir)
“But I don’t want comfort. I want poetry. I want danger. I want freedom. I want goodness. I want sin.” – Aldous Huxley, Brave New World (via nirvikalpa)
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“My greatest victory has been to be able to live with myself, to accept my shortcomings. I’m a long way from the human being I’d liked to be, but I’ve decided I’m not so bad after all.” – Audrey Hepburn (via alecshao)
“How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.” – Anais Nin (via wondersofyouth)
