It is perhaps when our lives are at their most problematic that we are likely to be most receptive to beautiful things. Alain de Botton, The Architecture of Happiness (via heteroglossia)
Tag Archives: poetic
When you’re scared but you still do it anyway, that’s brave. Neil Gaiman, Coraline (via b-ookquotes)
Isn’t it strange that we talk least about the things we think about most? (via urbanoutfucks)
Why are you crying?” “Because,” she whispered, her voice shaking, “you remind me of what the world ought to be. What the world can be. Sarah J. Maas, Crown of Midnight (via b-ookquotes)
No one’s life should be rooted in fear. We are born for wonder, for joy, for hope, for love, to marvel at the mystery of existence, to be ravished by the beauty of the world, to seek truth and meaning, to acquire wisdom, and by our treatment of others to brighten the corner where we …
None of us understand what we’re doing but we do beautiful things anyway. Allen Ginsberg, from a letter to Jack Kerouac (via larmoyante)
The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness. John Muir (via lazyyogi)
toutcommenceparunbaiser: Il la regarde et réalise ce qu’est l’amour.
She is madness, sanity. She is hell, and paradise. Ellen Hopkins, Perfect (via b-ookquotes)