You carry in yourself all the obstacles necessary to make your realisation perfect. Always you will see that within you the shadow and the light are equal. If you discover a very black hole, a thick shadow, be sure there is somewhere in you a great light. It is up to you to know how to use one to realise the other.
— Sri Aurobindo
Trouble (via wishopeace)
You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.
— Sydney Smith
I’m living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
— ee cummings
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(via livelikeyouweredying)
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
— George Eliot
Focus more on your desire than on your doubt, and the dream will take care of itself.
— Marcia Wieder
to speak of these things and to try to understand their nature and, having understood it, to try slowly and humbly and constantly to express, to press out again from the gross earth or what it brings forth, from sound and shape and color which are the prison gates of our soul, an image of the beauty we have come to understand— that is art.
— James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be.
— Elizabeth Gilbert (via littlemiss) (via quote-book) (via thirtyseconds)
When you don’t want to feel… death can seem like a dream. But, seeing death - really seeing it… makes dreaming about it fucking ridiculous.
— Girl Interrupted, Susanna
In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.
— Robert Frost (via victoryblues) (via thirtyseconds)