May 18th | 589 "
The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than staying was leaving. I didn’t want to destroy anything or anybody. I just wanted to slip quietly out the back door, without causing any fuss or consequences, and then not stop running until I reached Greenland."
— Elizabeth Gilbert,
Eat, Pray, Love (via
whiteoceans)
(Source: criminalsofpurpose, via synapticbuzz)
Apr 17th | 2538 "
But suddenly you’re ripped into being alive. And life is pain, and life is suffering, and life is horror, but my god you’re alive and its spectacular."
— Joseph Campbell (via
chaoswithinus)
(Source: moreofamore, via those-shindigs)
Mar 14th | 12337 "
The truth is like a lion. You don’t have to defend it. Let it loose. It will defend itself."
—
St. Augustine (354–430)
(Source: torrid-wind, via cordeliaistheone)
Dec 17th | 19 "
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being."
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Dec 11th | 3464 "
Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart."
— Martin Luther King, Jr. (via
girlwithoutwings)
(Source: quote-book)