#quotes – @ponderful on Tumblr

The only true meaning of life is passion. The passion to learn, to paint, to love etc. Don’t dare destroy your passion for the sake of others. When you do you’ve lost the beauty of life and that’s what a sin is.

Candy Darling (via ssion1984)

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Scared and sacred are spelled with the same letters. Awful proceeds from the same root word as awesome. Terrify and terrific. Every negative experience holds the seed of transformation.

Alan Cohen (via sorakeem)

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I have buried you Every place I’ve been You keep ending up In my shaking hands

Justin Vernon (Bon Iver), “A Song for a Lover of Long Ago” (via larmoyante)

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You’re not a kid anymore. You have the right to choose your own life. You can start again. If you want a cat, all you have to do is choose a life in which you can have a cat. It’s simple. It’s your right.

Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (via wordsnquotes)

Source: wordsnquotes.com

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“Pan, who and what art thou?” he cried huskily. “I’m youth, I’m joy,” Peter answered at a venture, “I’m a little bird that has broken out of the egg.”

J. M. Barrie - Peter Pan (via peterpanquotes)

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Shaun David Hutchinson, We Are the Ants

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a-m-b-r-o-i-s-i-e

I don’t dress up for boys.I dress up to stare at my reflection as I walk by store windows.

(via herecomesthestrangegirl)

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I want everyone to meet you. You’re my favorite person of all time.

Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park (via theliteraryjournals)

Source: theliteraryjournals

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And then, suddenly, something is over.

Louise Glück, Poems 1962-2012 (via wordsnquotes)

Source: wordsnquotes.com

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And I, I have a feeling as if I had been born ages and ages ago. I drag my life, a dead weight, after me, like the train of an endless dress. […] Of course, this is all rubbish. One must shake oneself and throw it all off.

Anton Chekhov, from The Plays of Anton Chekhov (via mirroir)

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Ah, thoughts - they’re not so easy to control.

Henrik Ibsen, Hedda Gabler (via wordsnquotes)

Source: wordsnquotes.com

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Anne Blankman, Prisoner of Night and Fog

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I return - something completely different.

Caitlin Moran, from “Time Travel in the Same Four Places” in Moranthology (via the-final-sentence)

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Day by day, we live in the today and keep living to meet our future selves.

Ao Jūmonji, Hai to Gensou no Grimgar (Grimgar of Fantasy and Ash), a Japanese light novel series (via sam2119931)

Source: less-real.com

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Whatever you may be missing right now - a person, a place, a feeling, maybe you are injured and missing running - whatever it is, have peace and take heart - remember that any goodbye makes room for a hello.

Kristin Armstrong (via wordsnquotes)

Source: wordsnquotes.com

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I looked at everyone and wondered where they came from, and who they missed, and what they were sorry for.

Jonathan Safran Foer (via quotemadness)

Source: quotemadness.com

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She believed a great happiness awaited her somewhere, and for this reason she remained calm as the days flew by.

Gyula Krúdy, Sunflower (via wordsnquotes)

Source: wordsnquotes.com

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