Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk."
— Dalai Lama XIV (via purplebuddhaproject)
I don’t want you to be mine.
I want you to be yours. And I’ll be there too.
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When a person tells you you hurt them, you don’t get to decide you didn’t."
—
Louis C.K.
This has long been one of the most influential quotes I have ever come across. Completely changes my perspective on soooo many situations in my past. (via hudson-republic)
Hope is not a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky. It is an axe you break down doors with in an emergency. Hope should shove you out the door, because it will take everything you have to steer the future away from endless war, from the annihilation of the earth’s treasures and the grinding down of the poor and marginal… To hope is to give yourself to the future - and that commitment to the future is what makes the present inhabitable."
— Rebecca Solnit, A Field Guide to Getting Lost (via purplebuddhaproject)
She looks up at him like he’s the world. And he just thinks she’s pretty."
— I know I care more and I really wish I didn’t. (via sugarsnore)
I said I would go to hell for you, but I didn’t expect you to leave me there."