“Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing, that we see too late the one that is open.”
— Alexander Graham Bell
“Warten ist schmerzhaft. Vergessen ist schmerzhaft. Aber nicht zu wissen, was davon man tun soll, ist das Schlimmste.”
— Paulo Coelho (via honigimohr)
Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
— Simone Weil, from Gravity and Grace (University of Nebraska Press, 1952)
“I want to write, but more than that, I want to bring out all kinds of things that lie buried deep in my heart.”
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“Apologizing does not always mean you’re wrong and the other person is right. It just means you value your relationship more than your ego.”
— Mark Matthews
“Don’t be so cool you can’t cry. Don’t be so smart you can’t wonder. Don’t be so set on your sunny days that you can’t love thunder.”
— Unknown
“Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.”
— Robert Motherwell
“I want to inspire people. One day I hope someone looks at me and says “because of you, I didn’t give up.””
— Unknown
“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.”
— Timothy Leary (via thoughtkick)