delicious ambiguity

The heaviest of burdens is therefore simultaneously an image of life’s most intense fulfillment. The heavier the burden, the closer our lives come to the earth—the more real and truthful they become. Conversely, the absolute absence of a burden causes man to be lighter than air, to soar into the heights, take leave of the earth and his earthly being, and become only half real, his movements as free as they are insignificant. What then shall we choose? Weight or lightness?

― Milan Kundera // The Unbearable Lightness of Being

May 16th 2013 at 12:25PM | 2 notes

You better [start writing] now because you know how to write, and you have fingers, and you have this one life, and during this one life, you should put your words down, and make your voice heard, and then let others hear your voice. And the only way any of that’s going to happen is if you actually do it. People can’t read the thoughts in your head. They can only read the thoughts you put down, carefully and with great love, on the page. So you have to do it, goddamnit.

― Dave Eggers

(Source: thefangirlandthenovel)

May 15th 2013 at 12:41AM | 200 notes

What if love isn’t a yes-or-no question? It’s not either you’re in love or you’re not. I mean, aren’t there different levels? And maybe these things, like words and expectations and whatever, don’t go on top of the love. Maybe it’s like a map, and they all have their own place, and then when you see it from the sky—whoa.

― Dash and Lily’s Book of Dares by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan

(Source: falld0wnnevergetbackupagain)

May 14th 2013 at 11:38PM | 605 notes

Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.

― Oscar Wilde

May 14th 2013 at 06:28PM | 16 notes

Yesterday I was so clever I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

― Rumi

(Source: jennasfawn)

May 14th 2013 at 11:32AM | 115 notes

mad love for the mamas

When I think of a strong, selfless mother…a few people come to mind. Of course, my mom, but also my grandmother’s and my aunt. They embody these roles as caregivers and supporters with such grace and compassion, and I am so blessed to have them to guide me and mold me into the woman that I am. And also to show me what it means to be a great mom. So today is for you, my grandma’s, my mom and my aunt, thank you for teaching me how to love and how to be loved so beautifully.

May 12th 2013 at 12:21PM | 1 note

Give up defining yourself - to yourself or to others. You won’t die. You will come to life. And don’t be concerned with how others define you. When they define you, they are limiting themselves, so it’s their problem. Whenever you interact with people, don’t be there primarily as a function or a role, but as the field of conscious presence. You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.  

― Eckhart Tolle

(Source: the-healing-nest)

May 12th 2013 at 12:16PM | 4,760 notes

May 11th 2013 at 05:14PM | 69 notes

Surround yourself with the dreamers and the doers, the believers and thinkers, but most of all, surround yourself with those who see the greatness within you, even when you don’t see it yourself.

― Edmund Lee

(Source: v-ielle)

May 5th 2013 at 02:35PM | 38,435 notes

Stop comparing where you’re at with where everyone else is. It doesn’t move you farther ahead, improve your situation, or help you find peace. It just feeds your shame, fuels your feelings of inadequacy, and ultimately, it keeps you stuck. The reality is that there is no one correct path in life. Everyone has their own unique journey. A path that’s right for someone else won’t necessarily be a path that’s right for you. And that’s okay. Your journey isn’t right or wrong, or good or bad. It’s just different. Your life isn’t meant to look like anyone else’s because you aren’t like anyone else. You’re a person all your own with a unique set of goals, obstacles, dreams, and needs. So stop comparing, and start living. You may not have ended up where you intended to go. But trust, for once, that you have ended up where you needed to be. Trust that you are in the right place at the right time. Trust that your life is enough. Trust that you are enough.

― Daniel Koepke

(Source: internal-acceptance-movement)

May 3rd 2013 at 01:21AM | 25,136 notes

But we are everywhere. Even though we left every city we used to be in, we were there, too. And even the places you were the most exhausted with in the moment are transformed into something nostalgic, even magical, when you get enough distance on it. You see the same people, the same bars, the same streets long enough, and all you want to do is get away to “find” yourself somewhere new. But you leave, and then you think about those friends and those bars and they all seem so wonderful — maybe because they belonged to a different version of “you” that you weren’t even aware you had.

― Chelsea Fagan / / Thought Catalog

May 2nd 2013 at 02:01AM | 3 notes

We’re all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.

― Charles Bukowski

(Source: amordragon)

April 28th 2013 at 10:49PM | 517 notes

I remember one morning getting up at dawn, there was such a sense of possibility. You know, that feeling? And I remember thinking to myself: So, this is the beginning of happiness. This is where it starts. And of course there will always be more. It never occurred to me it wasn’t the beginning. It was happiness. It was the moment. Right then.

― Clarissa Vaughan

(Source: anuclearmystic)

April 28th 2013 at 02:31PM | 3,026 notes

There’s something incredibly honest about trees in winter, how they’re experts at letting things go.

― Jeffrey Mcdaniel

(Source: likeafieldmouse)

April 21st 2013 at 10:07AM | 5,364 notes

Trying to uproot and overhaul and transform your life overnight will seldom work. But do you know what will? Identifying what it is you most want, and making the little, tiny changes until you get there.

― Thought Catalog

April 20th 2013 at 04:15PM | 3 notes