June 2013
“Maybe it meant something. Maybe not, in the long run, but no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive in that corner of time and the world. Whatever it meant.”
—Hunter S. Thompson (via serendeee)
“It’s all about falling in love with yourself and sharing that love with someone who appreciates you, rather than looking for love to compensate for a self love deficit.”
—Eartha Kitt (via perfect)
i may not be your cup of tea but i’m your 10th shot of tequila
“What seems like a reasonable distance to one person may feel too far to somebody else.”
—Haruki Murakami, After Dark (via karlorotea)
“Introverts, in contrast, may have strong social skills and enjoy parties and business meetings, but after a while wish they were home in their pajamas. They prefer to devote their social energies to close friends, colleagues, and family. They listen more than they talk, think before they speak, and often feel as if they express themselves better in writing than in conversation. They tend to dislike conflict. Many have a horror of small talk, but enjoy deep discussions.”
—Susan Cain (via karlorotea)
“If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the men of our century, I should simply say: in the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.”
—Leo Tolstoy (via middlenameconfused)
“Angry, and half in love with you, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (via karlorotea)
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We as a society really need to stop romanticizing the idea of “needing” romantic partners and “not being able to live without them” because it is incredibly unhealthy and leads people to wind up in unhealthy situations of dependency or feeling dependent and not thinking to change that mindset because it seems romantic
“Words alone don’t make a relationship of any kind, put actions of trust, honesty, kindness, empathy, and strength behind them and it will last a longtime.”
—(via stevenrosas)
“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
—― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land (via sammyycakes)
the sexual tension when u and ur crush are online on fb at the same time and u just stare at their lil green dot
and suddenly you know what gatsby felt like
This is actually the most profound and appropriate literary allusion I’ve encountered so far this week.
