Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could.
–Louise Erdrich, The Painted Drum (via larmoyante)
Tasting the apples.
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Via Another PassengerDon’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.
–Franz Kafka
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Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
– Ernest Hemingway (via girlwithoutwings)(Source: quote-book)
Via Quote Book:You are confined only by the walls you build yourself
– Andrew Murphy (via relucent)(Source: bluprint)
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Deep rivers run quiet.
– Haruki Murakami, Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (via wordswrittenoff) Via BookloverKnow the world in yourself. Never look for yourself in the world, for this would be to project your illusion.
– Egyptian Proverb from the Great Temple of Karnak (via eslamelshatby) Via BookloverI believe that suffering is part of the narrative, and that nothing really good gets built when everything’s easy. I believe that loss and emptiness and confusion often give way to new fullness and wisdom.
– Shauna Niequist, Bittersweet (via thresca) Via Quote Book:
I remember awakening one morning and finding everything smeared with the color of forgotten love.
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