nonchalantlychaotic

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Listen. A healthy relationship isn’t living vicariously through one another. True love isn’t someone being there at your side every moment of every day, but feeling free, and encouraged, to pursue your own passions, and then sharing in the spoils of your triumphs together.

Beau Taplin • S w e e t  D a y s  (via afadthatlastsforever)

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Timing is a hell of a thing. In the end, that’s all it comes down to. The potency of an attraction or the purity of a connection mean very little if you’re on separate journeys. You and I were a perfect fit, we were, there was just too much distance between us to see it.

Beau Taplin • Separate Journeys (via afadthatlastsforever)

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Lately, I have felt trapped and stretched thin, exhausted and beaten — as though the present is an ocean and every moment ahead of me is an impregnable layer of thick, solid ice and I am suffocating helplessly between them.

Beau Taplin • F r o z e n  O c e a n  (via afadthatlastsforever)

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Good advice. If I listened earlier I wouldn’t be here! But that’s just the trouble with me. I give myself very good advice… but I very seldom follow it. That explains the trouble that I’m always in. Be patient is very good advice, but the waiting makes me curious. And I’d love the change, should something strange begin. Well, I went along my merry way, and I never stopped to reason. I should have known there’d be a price to pay, some day. Some day. I give myself very good advice, but I very seldom follow it. Will I ever learn to do the things I should?

-Alice, Alice in Wonderland

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The scariest moment is always just before you start.

 Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft  (via mergaerytyrell)

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I was in a place where nobody knew my heart even a little bit.

Carol Rifka Brunt, from Tell the Wolves I’m Home (Perfection Learning, 2013)

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Even to this day, no matter the time, place, or occasion, you are always lingering in the peripherals of my thoughts. Swirling and shimmering like loose specks of dust in the light — clouding my focus, and demanding my attention.

Beau Taplin • P e r i p h e r a l s  (via afadthatlastsforever)

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I never wanted a quiet, sensible sort of love. I wanted to be devoured.

Beau Taplin • T h e  D e v o u r i n g  (via afadthatlastsforever)

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“A man's sexual choice is the result and the sum of his fundamental convictions.... He will always be attracted to the woman who reflects his deepest vision of himself, the woman whose surrender permits him to experience a sense of self-esteem. The man who is proudly certain of his own value, will want the highest type of woman he can find, the woman he admires, the strongest, the hardest to conquer--because only the possession of a heroine will give him the sense of an achievement.”

Atlas Shrugged

[nonchalantlychaotic]

“The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it - basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.”

Charles Bukowski

[nonchalantlychaotic]

Isn't it pretty to think so?

Hemingway

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"How many moments in life can you point to and say: 'That's when it all changed.'"

[nonchalantlychaotic]

If a man treats a life artistically, his brain is his heart.

The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde)

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Some women are lost in the fire. Some women are built from it.

Michelle K. (via wordsnquotes)

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To offer no resistance to life is to be in a state of grace, ease, and lightness. This state is then no longer dependent upon things being in a certain way, good or bad. It seems almost paradoxical, yet when your inner dependency on form is gone, the general conditions of your life, the outer forms, tend to improve greatly. Things, people, or conditions that you thought you needed for your happiness now come to you with no struggle or effort on your part, and you are free to enjoy and appreciate them - while they last. All those things, of course, will still pass away, cycles will come and go, but with dependency gone there is no fear of loss anymore. Life flows with ease.

Eckhart Tolle (via purplebuddhaproject)

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There will be a few times in your life when all your instincts will tell you to do something, something that defies logic, upsets your plans, and may seem crazy to others. When that happens, you do it. Listen to your instincts and ignore everything else. Ignore logic, ignore the odds, ignore the complications, and just go for it.

Judith McNaught, Remember When  (via seulray)