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“I may be feeding an impure hunger.”

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

I am out with lanterns looking for myself

— Emily Dickinson

“Just in case you ever foolishly forget; I’m never not thinking of you.”

— Virginia Woolf, Selected Diaries

It is the spectator, not life, that art really mirrors

— Oscar Wilde

“Don’t touch me if you don’t mean it.”

— The War Boys (2009)

“Loving me isn’t easy, I have sharp edges, I have missing parts.”

— Donte Collins

“Why not take a chance and bet on happiness?”

— Jenny Han

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”

— Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

We are products of our past but we don’t have to be prisoners of it.

Rick Warren

It’s better to be your genuine self, and have fewer of the right kinds of people in your life, than it is to surround yourself with those who only accept you as long as you conform to their idea of who you should be.

Zero Dean

Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their illusions destroyed.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Sometimes I find that music is so much more attractive than love. I don’t know… It’s like some kind of euphoria, that love can’t bring to you.

Florence Welch

It’s never too late to change the direction that your life is going in.

Wayne Dyer

Tomorrow is another chance.

Unknown

Falling in love doesn’t always lead to heartbreak. With the right man, it can be a one-way ticket to paradise.

Catherine Anderson

The darkest nights produce the brightest stars.

Unknown

I think I might always be in some kind of love with you.

F. Cabanes

Some hearts understand each other even in silence.

Yasmine Mogahed

Maybe I’ll see you in another life, if this one wasn’t enough.

Florence + the Machine

The most important thing is to enjoy your life - to be happy - it’s all that matters.

Audrey Hepburn

I learned not to trust people; I learned not to believe what they say but to watch what they do. I learned to suspect that everyone is capable of living a lie. I came to believe that other people - even when you think you know them well - are ultimately unknowable.

Lynn Barber

Don’t ask yourself what the world needs, ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who are alive.

Howard Thurman

My mum brought me up to think that personal happiness is more important than your family.

Gail Porter

You cannot solve a problem with the same mind that created it.

Albert Einstein

In my opinion, the best thing you can do is to find a person who loves you for exactly what you are. Good mood, bad mood, ugly, pretty, handsome, what have you … That’s the kind of person that’s worth sticking with.

Juno

Don’t do something permanently stupid just because you’re temporarily upset.

Unknown

There’s that one person you’ll never get over no matter how long it’s been.

Avinash Wandre

And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.

John Steinbeck

Strange as it may seem, I still hope for the best, even though the best, like an interesting piece of mail, so rarely arrives.

Lemony Snicket

If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there’s salvation in life. Even if you can’t get together with that person.

Haruki Murakami