If you could go anywhere in the world right now would it be to a “where” or to a “who”?
unknown (via sundaylatte)
To my mum..
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I have no tolerance for people who are not thinking deeply about things. I have no tolerance for the kind of small talk that people need to fill silence, and I have no tolerance for people not being a part of the world and being in it and trying to change it.
Jacqueline Woodson
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We can know only that we know nothing, and that is the highest degree of human wisdom.
Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace (via fyp-philosophy)
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I’m too quiet. But I’m really not quiet. I just tend to come across that way to new people because I don’t like to talk first.
Lauren Barnholdt, Two-Way Street (via wordsnquotes)
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I’m very shy and I’m always embarassed when people are interested in what I do. I’m not an exhibitionist.
Lana Del Rey (via wordsnquotes)
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Let’s clear one thing up: Introverts do not hate small talk because we dislike people. We hate small talk because we hate the barrier it creates between people.
Laurie Helgoe, Introvert Power: Why Your Inner Life Is Your Hidden Strength (via wordsnquotes)
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I am rarely bored alone; I am often bored in groups and crowds.
Laurie Helgoe, Introvert Power: Why Your Inner Life Is Your Hidden Strength (via wordsnquotes)
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I’m a quiet person. I spend time observing, not speaking.
Norman Reedus (via wordsnquotes)
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I know how it is to be quiet, to listen and watch, as if your life were a dream. You can close your eyes when you no longer want to watch. But when you no longer want to listen, what can you do?
Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club (via wordsnquotes)
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I’m an observer. I read about life. I research life. I find a corner in a room and melt into it. I can become invisible. It’s an art, and I am a wonderful practitioner.
Christine Feehan
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do you ever just wanna sit next to someone and listen to everything they could possibly say about anything ever just because you like their face and their voice and their general existence
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Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
Simone Weil (via fyp-philosophy)
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“water can flow, or it can crash
be water, my friend”
model Salma Abu Deif at Sofitel Old Cataract, Aswan, Egypt
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maybe that’s why as english speakers we use ‘like’ and ‘um’ so much, we are always searching for words that aren’t there.
nayyirah waheed (via feellng)
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