“It’s Sad Isn’t It? I Once Thought Worlds Of You And Now You’re Just Another Lesson.”

“Don’t you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you are not taking advantage of it?”

— Ernest Hemingway

Mary Oliver, Invitation

“Nobody will stop you from creating. Do it tonight. Do it tomorrow. That is the way to make your soul grow - whether there is a market for it or not!”

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Life is short, break the rules, forgive quickly, kiss slowly, love truly, laugh uncontrollably, and never regret anything that made you smile. Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your souls. Explore. Dream. Discover.”

— Unknown

“Don’t be afraid of your fears. They’re not there to scare you. They’re there to let you know that something is worth it.”

— Unknown

Sunsets we always liked because they only happen once and go away. "But, Lena, that's sad." No, if the sunset stayed and we got bored, that would be a real sadness.

— Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine (Green Town, #1)

“Maybe we’ll meet again, when we are slightly older and our minds less hectic, and I’ll be right for you and you’ll be right for me. But right now, I am chaos to your thoughts and you are poison to my heart.”

— Unknown

“I became good at pretending. I became so good that after a while the lines blurred between my truth and fiction. And sometimes, when I did a really good job of pretending, I even fooled myself.”

— Ruta Sepetys (via quotemadness)

“I over-analyze situations because I’m scared of what will happen if I’m not prepared for it.”

— Turcois Ominek

The path isn’t a straight line; it’s a spiral. You continually come back to things you thought you understood and see deeper truths.

Barry H. Gillespie