“Find Out What Makes You Kinder, What Opens You Up And Brings Out The Most Loving, Generous, And Unafraid

J.R.R. Tolkien, from The Return of the King

“If you want to awaken all of humanity, then awaken all of yourself. If you want to eliminate the suffering in the world, then eliminate all that is dark and negative in yourself. Truly, the greatest gift you have to give is that of your own self-transformation.”

— Lao Tzu 

David Lynch & Mark Frost, Twin Peaks

“—I want to change: I want to stop fear’s subtle / guidance of my life—”

— Frank Bidart, from Half-light: Collected Poems; “California Plush”

“I must see new things and investigate them. I want to taste dark water and see crackling trees and wild winds.”

— Egon Schiele (via kittencrimson)

“learning to learn and feeling like you’re starting from scratch is something you do again and again and again, for the rest of your life, as you enter new chapters and take on new responsibilities.”

— From the other side of grad school | MIT Admissions

“She believed a great happiness awaited her somewhere, and for this reason she remained calm as the days flew by.”

— Gyula Krúdy (via lareinedefer)

There was a star riding through clouds one night and I said to the star, 'Consume me'.

— Virginia Woolf, The Waves (Annotated)

“Aphrodite, the queen of the senses, she, born of the sea-foam, is the luminousness of the gleaming senses, the phosphorescence of the sea, the senses become a conscious aim unto themselves; She is the gleaming darkness, she is the luminous night, she is goddess of destruction,”

— D. H. Lawrence, from Selected Poems and Writings; “The Lemon Gardens,” (via violentwavesofemotion)

Louise Glück, from “Blue Rotunda.”