"Love is the will to extend one’s self for the purpose of nurturing one’s own or another’s spiritual growth… Love is as love does. Love is an act of will — namely, both an intention and an action. Will also implies choice. We do not have to love. We choose to love."
— M. Scott Peck
"Imagine him as a cruel villain with a cape and a mustache and a grand, unsettling laugh. But he is not that at all. He is, in most ways, a very good and caring person who I miss very much. Smart and charming and all of that. Even now, on the very rare occasion that one of us sends the other a two-sentence email, it almost feels okay. But mostly it feels like two people who used to know one another."
— Alison, Hi.: The art of getting really dumped
"People come and go— they’ll drift in and out of your life, almost like characters in your favorite book. When you finally close the cover, the characters have told their story and you start up again with another book, complete with new characters and adventures. Then you find yourself focusing on the new ones, not the ones from the past."
— Nicholas Sparks
"Today you became a yesterday, when once you were a tomorrow."
— I Wrote This For You
"This tremendous world I have inside of me. How to free myself, and this world, without tearing myself to pieces. And rather tear myself to a thousand pieces than be buried with this world within me."
— Franz Kafka
"When I saw you I fell in love. And you smiled because you knew."
— Arrigo Boito
"I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes.
Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You’re doing things you’ve never done before, and more importantly, you’re Doing Something.
So that’s my wish for you, and all of us, and my wish for myself. Make New Mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody’s ever made before. Don’t freeze, don’t stop, don’t worry that it isn’t good enough, or it isn’t perfect, whatever it is: art, or love, or work or family or life.
Whatever it is you’re scared of doing, Do it. Make your mistakes, next year and forever."
— Neil Gaiman
"Everything is a struggle. Everything is a miracle."
— Stan Rice (via circledonamap)
"Perhaps he had been waiting all along for someone to knock him down and allow him to drop the weight he’d so faithfully carried."
— Simon Van Booy, (Love Begins in Winter)
(Source: 52hearts)
"And there will come a time, you’ll see, with no more tears. And love will not break your heart, but dismiss your fears."
— Mumford & Sons
