quotes

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The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.

Henry Ward Beecher

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… love is a great beautifier.

Louisa May Alcott , Little Women (via misswallflower)

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It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.

Benjamin Britten (via misswallflower)

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What if nothing exists and we’re all in somebody’s dream?

Woody Allen (via misswallflower)

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Jealousy and love are sisters.

Russian Proverb (via misswallflower)

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I think also that our bodies are in truth naked. We are only lightly covered with buttoned cloth; and beneath these pavements are shells, bones and silence.

The Waves by Virginia Woolf

(via pinpricks)

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Vanity is so secure in the heart of man that everyone wants to be admired: even I who write this, and you who read this.

Blaise Pascal (via misswallflower)

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You are all geniuses, and you are all beautiful. You don’t need anyone to tell you who you are. You are what you are.

John Lennon (via angeeapple)

(Source: aconversationoncool, via youvegotaguiltypleasure)

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Being born a woman is an awful tragedy… Yes, my consuming desire to mingle with road crews, sailors and soldiers, bar room regulars - to be a part of a scene, anonymous, listening, recording - all is spoiled by the fact that I am a girl, a female always in danger of assault and battery. My consuming interest in men and their lives is often misconstrued as a desire to seduce them, or as an invitation to intimacy. Yet, God, I want to talk to everybody I can as deeply as I can. I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night…

Sylvia Plath (via tulletulle)

(Source: albumontem, via tulletulle)

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Sex is emotion in motion.

Mae West (via misswallflower)