Velimir Khlebnikov, From Collected Poems & Selected Writings; “Everland,”

When I am being loved, I respond to it with love, too. When I'm being less taken care of or ignored, I give back the same energy. I'm a believer in equivalent exchange. And that's my way of giving justice to this so-called reciprocation.

V.J. Universe

“Sometimes you have to do what’s best for you, not what’s best for somebody else.”

— Unknown (via stay-close)

Nazim Hikmet, trans. by Randy Blasing and Mutlu Konuk

“I used to think the worst thing in life was to end up all alone. It’s not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel all alone.”

— Robin Williams

“I confess I do not know why, but looking at the stars always makes me dream.”

— Vincent van Gogh

Jenny Slate, Little Weirds

“A falcon who chases a warlike crane can only hope for a life of pain.”

— Gabriel García Márquez, Chronicle of a Death Foretold

Safia Elhillo, from Home Is Not a Country; “Boys”

“The things I find most beautiful about a person are almost never physical.”

— Mark Patterson

Alanis Morissette, Sorry to Myself/Haruki Murakami,1084