"No matter how careful you are, there’s going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn’t experience it all. There’s that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should’ve been paying attention. Well, get used to that feeling. That’s how your whole life will feel some day. This is all practice."

Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters (via dulcetdecember)

(Source: danseurs)

"There is only one you in the universe. No one can compete with you at being you. There are things to do and people to reach for the kingdom that God created you to do. We need you to be who you are."

Unka Glen Fitzjerrell 

{He needs you to be who you are.}

(via underthecarolinamoon)

(Source: thebridgechicago)

"I still love the people I’ve loved, even if I cross the street to avoid them."

Uma Thurman (via dulcetdecember)

(Source: thelittleyellowdiary)

"To hold our tongues when everyone is gossiping, to smile without hostility at people and institutions, to compensate for the shortage of love in the world with more love in small, private matters; to be more faithful in our work, to show greater patience, to forgo the cheap revenge obtainable from mockery and criticism: all these are things we can do."

Hermann Hesse

(Source: journalofanobody)

"Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life."

Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way (via larmoyante)

"I firmly believe in small gestures: pay for their coffee, hold the door for strangers, over tip, smile or try to be kind even when you don’t feel like it, pay compliments, chase the kid’s runaway ball down the sidewalk and throw it back to him, try to be larger than you are— particularly when it’s difficult. People do notice, people appreciate. I appreciate it when it’s done to (for) me. Small gestures can be an effort, or actually go against our grain (“I’m not a big one for paying compliments…”), but the irony is that almost every time you make them, you feel better about yourself. For a moment life suddenly feels lighter, a bit more Gene Kelly dancing in the rain."

Jonathan Carroll (via 263one)

(Source: jonathancarroll.com)