“Like Most Sensitive Souls, You Already Know You’re Sensitive. You Soak Up Others’ Moods And Desires

Jimmy Santiago Baca, from “I Am Offering This Poem”

“I would open my heart and carry it in my hand so that others may know also; for there is no deeper desire than the desire of being revealed. We all want that little light in us to be taken from under the bushel.”

— Kahlil Gibran in his letter to Mary Elizabeth Haskell dated 11 Nov 1911, Beloved Prophet: The Love Letters of Kahlil Gibran and Mary Haskell, and Her Private Journal 

“Don’t you want to be alive before you die?”

— Anthony Doerr

“I may be feeding an impure hunger.”

— Virginia Woolf, from a letter to Violet Dickinson written c. September 1907 (via violentwavesofemotion)

“Get yourself a best friend that will love you when u don’t know how to love yourself and one that will stick by ur side even if u make shitty decisions.”

— Unknown

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

“Do you want to meet the love of your life? Look in the mirror.”

— Unknown (via stay-close)

“I hope you fall in love with someone who never lets you fall asleep thinking you’re unwanted.”

— Unknown

A dream is like a river ever changing as it flows, and a dreamer’s just a vessel that must follow where it goes.

Garth Brooks