"Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive."

— Barry Lopez

9:16 pm  •  27 May 2012  •  1 note

"In his midthirties a man either reaches out toward risk and glory or stays within the routines of the expected and ordinary. It is the age when men leave safe homes and jobs and go on voyages, odysseys, perform transforming sacrifices. It is the age when Whitman wrote Leaves of Grass and Columbus started to plan his voyage to the Indies. It is the age at which visionaries become prophets or explorers or inventors, or make fools of themselves trying. Putting behind him his accumulated failures and humiliations, such a man must seize the new prospect and ride with it to greatness or defeat. There is no turning back."

— Robert Morgan || Boone:  A Biography

9:54 am  •  2 May 2012

"Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it."

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

7:59 am  •  25 April 2012  •  1 note

"There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars."

— Jack Kerouac || On the Road

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7:50 am  •  20 April 2012  •  760 notes

"But there’s something in me that just keeps going on. I think it has something to do with tomorrow, that there is always one, and that everything can change when it comes."

— Augusten Burroughs

(Source: kari-shma)

8:06 am  •  11 April 2012  •  2,246 notes

"The church says the body is a sin. Science says the body is a machine. Advertising says the body is a business. The body says: I am a fiesta."

— Eduardo Galeano

8:57 am  •  2 April 2012  •  11 notes

"Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems."

— Rainer Maria Rilke

3:12 pm  •  22 March 2012  •  14 notes

"My tears are like the quiet drift of petals from some magic rose; and all my grief flows from the rift of unremembered skies and snows. I think that if I touched the earth, it would crumble; it is so sad and beautiful, so tremulously like a dream."

— Dylan Thomas

8:37 am  •  6 March 2012  •  4 notes

"Be careful, lest in casting out your demon you exorcise the best thing in you."

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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1:32 pm  •  2 March 2012  •  650 notes

"I must be a mermaid. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living."

— Anaïs Nin

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3:17 pm  •  24 February 2012  •  589 notes

"Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass."

— Anton Chekhov

(Source: beautyisanillusion)

8:51 am  •  2 February 2012  •  137 notes

"Happiness consists in realizing it is all a great strange dream."

— Jack Kerouac

(Source: honeyforthehomeless)

8:18 am  •  27 January 2012  •  441 notes

"Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing."

— Sylvia Plath

(Source: quote-book)

9:17 pm  •  24 January 2012  •  11,047 notes

"Something inside me had dropped away, and nothing came in to fill the empty cavern. There was an abnormal lightness to my body, and sounds had a hollow echo to them."

— Haruki Murakami

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2:19 pm  •  3 January 2012  •  2,185 notes

"A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession."

— Albert Camus

10:00 am  •  31 December 2011  •  3 notes