More Than Words

"Remember how far you’ve come, not just how far you have to go. You are not where you want to be, but neither are you where you used to be."

Rick Warren (via saras-scrapbook)

"I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman."

Anaïs Nin (via eirenics)

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"Take bread away from me, if you wish, take air away, but do not take from me your laughter. Do not take away the rose, the lance flower that you pluck, the water that suddenly bursts forth in joy, the sudden wave of silver born in you. My struggle is harsh and I come back with eyes tired at times from having seen the unchanging earth,but when your laughter enters it rises to the sky seeking me and it opens for me all the doors of life. My love, in the darkest hour your laughter opens, and if suddenly you see my blood staining the stones of the street, laugh, because your laughter will be for my hands like a fresh sword. Next to the sea in the autumn, your laughter must raise its foamy cascade, and in the spring, love, I want your laughter like the flower I was waiting for, the blue flower, the rose of my echoing country. Laugh at the night, at the day, at the moon, laugh at the twisted streets of the island, laugh at this clumsy fool who loves you, but when I open my eyes and close them, when my steps go, when my steps return, deny me bread, air, light, spring, but never your laughter."

Pablo Neruda (via bibliobabe)

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fudgeflies:

If you don’t love Ginny Weasley, you’re wrong.

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"‘No sight so sad as that of a naughty child,’ he began, ‘especially a naughty little girl. Do you know where the wicked go after death?’
‘They go to hell,’ was my ready and orthodox answer.
‘And what is hell? Can you tell me that?’
‘A pit full of fire,’
‘And should you like to fall into that pit, and to be burning there for ever?’
‘No, sir.’
‘What must you do to avoid it?’
I deliberated a moment: my answer, when it did come, was objectionable: ‘I must keep in good health and not die.’"

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, pg. 39 (via fightingwithsidewalks)

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"One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon-instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today."

Dale Carnegie (via seabois)

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"Sweet, crazy conversations full of half sentences, daydreams and misunderstandings are more thrilling than understanding could ever be."

Toni Morrison, Beloved (via eirenics)

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"Laugh at the night,
at the day, at the moon,
laugh at the twisted
streets of the island,
laugh at this clumsy
boy who loves you,
but when I open
my eyes and close them,
when my steps go,
when my steps return,
deny me bread, air,
light, spring,
but never your laughter
for I would die."

Neruda- I’m in love with everything you have to say. (via sarahbearable)

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"A ship in port is safe, but that’s not what ships are built for."

Grace Murray Hopper (via saras-scrapbook)

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"The great thing about reading is that it broadens your life."

George R. R. Martin (via winter-hear-me-coming)

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"My bounty is as boundless as the sea,
My love as deep; the more I give to thee,
The more I have, for both are infinite."

romeo and juliet (via ayumirui)

"I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live."

Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (via sheandherdarkness)