“The conversation between your fingers and someone else’s skin. This is the most important discussion you can ever have.”— Iain Thomas, goodreads.comTagged: Conversation, Skin Deep, Love, Sensuality, Passion
“Make love like you have no secrets like you’ve never been left never been hurt like the world don’t owe you a single wretched thing.”— Warsan Shire, goodreads.comTagged: Love, Lovemaking, Sensuality, poem, Poetry
“Above all else, it is about leaving a mark that I existed: I was here. I was hungry. I was defeated. I was happy. I was sad. I was in love. I was afraid. I was hopeful. I had an idea and I had a good purpose …”— Felix Gonzalez-Torres, amazon.comTagged: Love, Life Is A Journey, Beauty Of Life, Architecture Of Happiness, Simplicity
“Being awake is love. That’s what it is. It’s certainly not hate. It’s certainly not fear. But what it is, it’s a sense of being not separate from all the suffering and all of the emptiness, all of the compassion, all of the wisdom, all of the liberation, and all of the enslavement, to understand we’…”— Joan Halifax, imdb.comTagged: Love, Freedom, Architecture Of Happiness, Pursuit of Happiness, Zen Philosophy
“The way to make people trust-worthy is to trust them.”— Ernest Hemingway, goodreads.comTagged: Life Is A Journey, Trust, Psychology, Philosophy, Architecture Of Happiness
“Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you allows your soul room to grow. Never expect to outgrow loneliness. Never hope to find people who will understand you, someone to fill that space. An intelligent, sensitive person is the exception, the very great exception.…”— Janet Fitch, amazon.comTagged: Loneliness, Pain, Life Is A Journey, Sensitivity, vulnerability
“The moment you feel like you have to prove your worth to someone is the moment to absolutely and utterly walk away.”— Alysia Harris, goodreads.comTagged: Life Is A Journey, Walking Away, Worth, Psychology
“I don’t pay attention to the world ending. it has ended for me many times and began again in the morning.”— Nayyirah Waheed, goodreads.comTagged: poem, Poetry, Writers, Life
“Power is being told you're not loved and not being destroyed by it”— Madonna, goodreads.comTagged: Love, Pursuit of Happiness, Power, Destruction, Philosophy
“When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not yet ready. The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back. A week is more than enough time f…”— Paulo Coehlo, goodreads.comTagged: Love, Sacrifice, Destiny, Challenge, Life
“Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.”— Vincent Van Gogh, goodreads.comTagged: Love, To Paint Is To Love Again, Life Is A Journey, strength
“There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.”— Sylvia Plath, amazon.comTagged: Friendship, Life Is A Journey, Having Fun
“Don’t google your name. Ever. Don’t ‘search’ for yourself on anything that glows in the dark. Don’t let your beauty be something anyone can turn off. Don’t edit your ugly out of your bio. Let your light come from the fire. Let your pain be the spark, but not the timber. Remember, you didn’t come her…”— Andrea Gibson, andrewgibby.tumblr.comTagged: Poetry, Slam Poetry, Google, Darkness, Love
“You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.”— Robin Williams, youtube.comTagged: Madness, Spark, Beauty Of Life, Pursuit of Happiness, Melancholia
“From a very early time, I understood that I only learn from things I don’t like. If you do things you like, you just do the same shit. You always fall in love with the wrong guy. Because there’s no change. It’s so easy to do things you like. But then, the thing is, when you’re afraid of something, f…”— Marina Abramovic, theguardian.comTagged: Change, Technology of Wishing, Pursuit of Happiness, Life Is A Journey, Philosophy
“Love hasn't got anything to do with the heart, the heart's a disgusting organ, a sort of pump full of blood. Love is primarily concerned with the lungs. People shouldn't say "she's broken my heart" but "she's stifled my lungs." Lungs are the most romantic organs: lovers and artists always contract t…”— Frederic Beigbeder, goodreads.comTagged: Love, Misery, Heartbreak, Passion, Pain
“I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.”— Simone de Beauvoir, goodreads.comTagged: Comfort, Technology of Wishing, Truth, Love, Pursuit of Happiness
“My kids are starting to notice I'm a little different from the other dads. "Why don't you have a straight job like everyone else?" they asked me the other day. I told them this story: In the forest, there was a crooked tree and a straight tree. Every day, the straight tree would say to the crooked t…”— Tom Waits, goodreads.comTagged: humor, Individuality, Music, Musician, Life Is A Journey
“Use your faults, use your defects; then you're going to be a star.”— Edith Piaf, goodreads.comTagged: Faults, Love, Star, Freedom, Individuality
“Nothing is worth more than laughter. It is strength to laugh and to abandon oneself, to be light. Tragedy is the most ridiculous thing.”— Frida Kahlo, goodreads.comTagged: Laughter, Pursuit of Happiness, Painter, Tragedy
“...because once you've got one scar on your face or your heart, its only a matter of time before someone gives you another - and another - until a day doesn't go by when you aren't being bashed senseless, nor a town that you haven't been run out of, and you get to be such a goddamn mess that finally…”— Nick Cave, goodreads.comTagged: Growing Pains, Musician, Music, Writers, Blood
“School was a very cruel environment, and I was a loner. But I learnt to get hurt, and I learnt to cope with it.”— Kate Bush, brainyquote.comTagged: Singer, Musician, Cruelty, School, Individuality
“I was never afraid of failure; for I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.”— John Keats, goodreads.comTagged: poem, Poetry, Poets, Failure, Fear
“Sometimes while I ride the subway I try to look at each person and imagine what they look like to someone who is totally in love with them. I think everyone has had someone look at them that way, whether it was a lover, or a parent, or a friend, whether they know it or not. It’s a wonderful thing, t…”— Dean Spade, samesame.com.auTagged: Love, Life Is A Journey, Compassion, Technology of Wishing, Pursuit of Happiness