"Admit it. You aren’t like them. You’re not even close. You may occasionally dress yourself up as one of them, watch the same mindless television shows as they do, maybe even eat the same fast food sometimes. But it seems that the more you try to fit in, the more you feel like an outsider, watching the “normal people” as they go about their automatic existences. For every time you say club passwords like “Have a nice day” and “Weather’s awful today, eh?”, you yearn inside to say forbidden things like “Tell me something that makes you cry” or “What do you think deja vu is for?”."
-Timothy Leary (via weareglitter)
(Source: pass-the-acid)
"I wish for a better life. I wish for food for my children. I wish that sexual abuse and exploitation in schools would stop.’ This is the dream of the African girl."
Leymah Gbowee
(Source: quota-tions)
"We willingly enter fictional worlds where we cheer our heroes and cry for friends we never had."
Marco Tempest
(Source: quota-tions)
"It takes a good crisis to get us going. When we feel fear and we fear loss we are capable of quite extraordinary things."
Paul Gilding
(Source: quota-tions)
"When you look at the Moon, you think, ‘I’m really small. What are my problems?’ It sets things into perspective. We should all look at the Moon a bit more often."
Alain de Botton
(Source: quota-tions)
"There are thousands and thousands of people out there leading lives of quiet, screaming desperation, where they work long, hard hours at jobs they hate to enable them to buy things they don’t need to impress people they don’t like."
Nigel Marsh
(Source: quota-tions)
"I’m not gonna sit around and waste my precious divine energy trying to explain and be ashamed of things you think are wrong with me."
Esperanza Spalding (via stellablu)
(Source: salome-rising)
"I was thinking how amazing it was that the world contained so many lives. Out in these streets people were embroiled in a thousand different matters, money problems, love problems, school problems. People were falling in love, getting married, going to drug rehab, learning how to ice-skate, getting bifocals, studying for exams, trying on clothes, getting their hair-cut and getting born. And in some houses people were getting old and sick and were dying, leaving others to grieve. It was happening all the time, unnoticed, and it was the thing that really mattered."
Jeffrey Eugenides (via venebelle)
"I give myself a good cry if I need it. But then I concentrate on the good things still in my life. I don’t allow myself any more self-pity than that. A little each every morning, a few tears, and that’s all. "
Mitch Albom (via rainbowicing)
(Source: coalescent)
"There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are messengers of overwhelming grief…and unspeakable love."
Washington Irving (via vanished)
"There comes a time in every life when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your heart."
Sarah Dessen, Just Listen (via kingsrow)
"I think there is something beautiful in reveling in sadness. The proof is how beautiful sad songs can be. So I don’t think being sad is to be avoided. It’s apathy and boredom you want to avoid. But feeling anything is good, I think. Maybe that’s sadistic of me."
Joseph Gordon-Levitt (via butterfliesflielikebutter)
(Source: katyjean)
"Whoever controls the media controls the mind."
Jim Morrison
(Source: quota-tions)
"We need never be ashamed of our tears."
Charles Dickens
(Source: quota-tions)
