Here is my secret. It is very simple: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.
— The Little Prince
I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.
— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (via whiskyandwhimsy) (via quote-book)
I am not going to sit on my ass as the events that affect me unfold to determine the course of my life. I’m going to take a stand. I’m going to defend it. Right or wrong, I’m going to defend it.
All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.
— J.R.R. Tolkien | All That is Gold Does Not Glitter (via janettt) (via quote-book)
You mustn’t be afraid to dream a little bigger darling…
— Eames, Inception
Somehow I can’t believe that there are any heights that can’t be scaled by a man who knows the secret of making dreams come true. This special secret, it seems to me, can be summarized in the four C’s. They are curiosity, confidence, courage and constancy, and the greatest of these is confidence. When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionably.
— Walt Disney
Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow.’
— Mary Anne Radmacher, American writer
If you always do what you’ve always done, then you’ll always get what you always got.
— Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo, NCIS [4x09, Twisted Sister] (via quote-book)
This is an important lesson to remember when you’re having a bad day, a bad month, or a shitty year. Things will change: you won’t feel this way forever. And anyways, sometimes the hardest lessons to learn are the ones your soul needs most. I believe you can’t feel real joy unless you’ve felt heartache. You can’t have a sense of victory unless you know what it means to fail. You can’t know what it’s like to feel holy until you know what it’s like to feel really fucking evil.
— Kelly Cutrone
Confidence is 10% hard work and 90% delusion. Just thinking foolishly that you will be able to do what you want to do.
— Tina Fey
One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.
— Oscar Wilde
Some day…I’ma gonna be able to afford you!
— Homeless man in San Francisco
I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life. And I am horribly limited.
— Sylvia Plath (via ellakamal)
The cost of oblivious daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realignment with what had been before and now seemed a little worse. Her reverie, once rich in plausible details, had become a passing silliness before the hard mass of the actual. It was difficult to come back.
— Atonement, by Ian McEwang
