This little light of mine, I'm gonna let it shine

humansofnewyork:

When the world gets tough, a girl’s gotta keep on pushin’.

I am somehow less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops. — Stephen Jay Gould.

"Character, like a photograph, develops in darkness."

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Yousuf Karsh (via thatkindofwoman)

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You don’t need religion to have morals. If you can’t determine right from wrong then you lack empathy, not religion.

"It’s a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you’re ready. I have this feeling now that actually no one is ever ready to do anything. There is almost no such thing as ready. There is only now. And you may as well do it now. Generally speaking, now is as good a time as any."

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Hugh Laurie
(via thatkindofwoman)

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"Surround yourself with the dreamers and the doers, the believers and thinkers, but most of all, surround yourself with those who see the greatness within you, even when you don’t see it yourself."

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Edmund Lee (via serendipitousromance)

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"She reminded me of the sea; the way she came dancing towards you, wild and beautiful, and just when she was almost close enough to touch she’d rush away again."

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Glenda Millard, from A Small Free Kiss in the Dark (Holiday House, 2010)  (via serendipitousromance)

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"‘But you can’t give your heart to a wild thing: the more you do, the stronger they get. Until they’re strong enough to run into the woods. Or fly into a tree. Then a taller tree. Then the sky. That’s how you’ll end up, Mr. Bell. If you let yourself love a wild thing. You’ll end up looking at the sky.’"

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Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s (p. 59)

(Source: mybookhaul, via farewell-kingdom)

"But I don’t want to go among mad people,” said Alice. “Oh, you can’t help that,” said the cat. “We’re all mad here."

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Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (via farewell-kingdom)

"I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. And it’s these things I’d believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn’t all she should be. I love her and it is the beginning of everything."

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Scott Fitzgerald (via pattymumu)

(via sugarbeth)

"I will remember the kisses
our lips raw with love
and how you gave me
everything you had
and how I
offered you what was left of
me,
and I will remember your small room
the feel of you
the light in the window
your records
your books
our morning coffee
our noons our nights
our bodies spilled together
sleeping
the tiny flowing currents
immediate and forever
your leg my leg
your arm my arm
your smile and the warmth
of you
who made me laugh
again."

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Charles Bukowski (via ginasalvatore)

Everything looks perfect from far away.

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-The Postal Service.

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