Capturing the moments

quotemadness:

“People who love themselves, don’t hurt other people. The more we hate ourselves, the more we want others to suffer.”

— Dan Pearce

quotemadness:

“It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.”

— Carl Gustav Jung

quotemadness:

“Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say “My tooth is aching” than to say “My heart is broken.”

— C.S. Lewis

quotemadness:

“She wanted a storm to match her rage.”

— George R.R. Martin

quotemadness:

“A language is not just words. It’s a culture, a tradition, a unification of a community, a whole history that creates what a community is. It’s all embodied in a language.”

— Noam Chomsky

quotemadness:

“I believe in staying strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day, and I believe in miracles.”

— Audrey Hepburn

quotemadness:

“What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.”

— Leo Tolstoy

quotemadness:

“I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.”

— Virginia Woolf

quotemadness:

“Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

quotemadness:

“It’s about who you miss at 2 in the afternoon when you’re busy, not 2 in the morning when you’re lonely.”

— Unknown

quotemadness:

“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.”

— Thomas A Edison

spiritual-vibrations:

(via rocknrollfuldead)

quotemadness:

“No one will understand you. It is not, ultimately, that important. What is important is that you understand you.”

— Matt Haig

cherryhollow:

linkinmoon:

Ada Limón interviewed by Lauren LeBlanc

[Text ID: I think poetry is a way of carrying grief, but it’s also a way of putting it somewhere so I don’t always have to heave it onto my back or into my body. The more I put grief in a poem, the more I am able to move freely through the world because I have named it, spoken it, and thrown it into the sky. Everyone has grief that they carry and sometimes we have anxiety and depression about anticipatory grief. The thing that I’ve found that helps is knowing that we are all in this, someone has gone or is going through the same thing. Poetry helps us with that too. Writing. Reading. As James Baldwin said, “You think your pain and heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, and then you read. End text ID]