The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time.
—Mary Oliver (via creativedreadhead)
Be in love with your life. Every detail of it.
—Jack Kerouac (via awakenthisspirit)
(Source: arrivalof-thebirds, via wordslessspoken)
Some people—and I am one of them—hate happy ends. We feel cheated. Harm is the norm. Doom should not jam. The avalanche stopping in its tracks a few feet above the cowering village behaves not only unnaturally but unethically.
—Vladimir Nabokov, Pnin (via bookmania)
The Truth is inseparable from who you are. Yes, you are the Truth. If you look for it elsewhere, you will be deceived every time.
—Eckhart Tolle (via lazyyogi)
(Source: lazyyogi, via creativedreadhead)
Never regret. If it’s good, it’s wonderful. If it’s bad, it’s experience.
—Victoria Holt (via missfolly)
What will survive of us is love.
—Philip Larkin, from “An Arundel Tomb” (via awritersruminations)
Experience life in all possible ways — good-bad, bitter-sweet, dark-light, summer-winter. Experience all the dualities. Don’t be afraid of experience, because the more experience you have, the more mature you become.
—Osho (via sweetlotus)
(Source: auroralynn, via creativedreadhead)
Death is nature’s way
of telling you to be quiet.
Of saying it’s time
to be weaned, your conflagration starved
to diamond.
I’ll give you something to cry about.
And what those treetops swaying
dimly in the wind spelled.
—Franz Wright, “Translation” (via awritersruminations)
My one wish for Christmas would be peace. Peace especially for the children of the world. Only then will the water we provide quench their thirst, the food nourish their bodies, the medicine make them well — and only then will they live to play and learn, and their parents will live to love them.
—Audrey Hepburn’s Christmas wish. (via audreyhepburnfacts)
(via audreyandmarilyn)
