“Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good.”
— Marcus Aurelius
“You’ll break your own heart if you fall in love with ideas and not people.”
— Bridgett Devoue
“The only darkness we should allow into our lives is the night, for even then, we have the moon.”
— Warsan Shire
People think being alone makes you lonely, but I don’t think that’s true. Being surrounded by the wrong people is the loneliest thing in the world.
Kim Culbertson (via quotemadness)
m a y b e w e w i l l u s e y o u r m e s s a g e .
how discouraging it is to be there for everyone, but whenever you need someone, no one comes to.
“You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude towards what happens to you. And in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.”
— Brian Tracy
Alice Notley, from In the Pines
[Text ID: “I will search for you across heaven,”]