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“Despite how open, peaceful, and loving you attempt to be, people can only meet you as deeply as they’ve met themselves.”

— Matt Kahn

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““When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over. He does not need punishment; he needs help. That’s the message he is sending.””

— Thich Nhat Hanh (via goodreadss)

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when alice notley said, “i can’t translate myself into language any more.”

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Make ur mind the most beautiful thing about u

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““Sometimes people are beautiful. Not in looks. Not in what they say. Just in what they are.””

— Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger (via goodreadss)

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“I try more and more to be myself, caring relatively little whether people approve or disapprove.”

— Vincent Van Gogh

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“In the graveyard of the sea there is nothing but eternity.”

— Albert Camus, from Youthful Writings; “Mediterranean,” wr. c. 1932 (via violentwavesofemotion)

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“Find meaning. Distinguish melancholy from sadness. Go out for a walk. It doesn’t have to be a romantic walk in the park, spring at its most spectacular moment, flowers and smells and outstanding poetical imagery smoothly transferring you into another world. It doesn’t have to be a walk during which you’ll have multiple life epiphanies and discover meanings no other brain ever managed to encounter. Do not be afraid of spending quality time by yourself. Find meaning or don’t find meaning but “steal” some time and give it freely and exclusively to your own self. Opt for privacy and solitude. That doesn’t make you antisocial or cause you to reject the rest of the world. But you need to breathe. And you need to be.”

— Albert Camus (via naturaekos)

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“Nichts war, nichts wird sein; alles ist, alles hat Wesen und Gegenwart.“”

— Hermann Hesse, Siddharta

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“If a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

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“The capacity to be alone is the capacity to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it is not. It is an existential truth: only those people who are capable of being alone are capable of love, of sharing, of going into the deepest core of the other person—without possessing the other, without becoming dependent on the other, without reducing the other to a thing, and without becoming addicted to the other.”

— Osho 

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i want passionate people in my life SO BADLY. i want to travel and do fun, wild, memorable things with people. i want to have great conversations about love and relationships and poetry, things that just set your soul on fire. i don’t want to waste my 20s thinking that nobody is the same as me and wants the same things that i do. i need friends that are the same as me. i crave deep human connection so fucking badly. i need people that are willing to get up and leave everything behind just for once in a lifetime experiences. i know there are people like me out there. there has to be. 

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no offense but when am i going to meet more sensitive artistic types my age to start a new artistic, musical, and literary movement with

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“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero (via landscape-photo-graphy)