Life is too short to be wasted in finding answers. Enjoy the questions!
— Paulo Coelho (via kari-shma)
Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson (via imfantasyparade)
He who has faith has an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well - even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.
— B.C. Forbes (via quote-book)
When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.
— Paulo Coelho (via kari-shma)
Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.
— Paulo Coelho (via kari-shma)
I beg you…
to have patience wit everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer…
The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.
— Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams (via girlwithoutwings)
How can I be reasonable? To me our love was everything and you were my whole life. It is not very pleasant to realize that to you it was only an episode.
— W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil (via helplesslyamazed)
Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy,
absentminded. Someone sober
will worry about things going badly.
Let the lover be.
— Rumi (via Swanfeather Songs)
Once you cared about a person, it was impossible to be logical about them anymore.
— Stephenie Meyer, New Moon (via definitelydope)
The question you should be asking isn’t, “What do I want?” or “What are my goals?” but “What would excite me?
— Tim Ferriss (via letterstobabies)
We’re never so vulnerable than when we trust someone - but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.
— Walter Anderson (via quote-book)
Better you don’t search for who you are until you know who it is you want to find.
— Robert Brault (via creatingaquietmind)
Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
— Anais Nin (via kari-shma)
Love can come when you’re already who you are, when you’re filled with you. Not when you look to someone else to fill the empty space.
— Deb Caletti (via kari-shma)
