oldambitioussoul

[oldambitioussoul]

“Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.”

- Measure For Measure

[oldambitioussoul]

“Be yourself always, the sun takes no instructions from anyone as to how bright it should be.”

- Clinton

[oldambitioussoul]

“Don’t look back - you’re not going that way.”

- Mary Engelbreit

[oldambitioussoul]

“If you end up with a boring, miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest, or some guy on television telling you how to do your shit, then you deserve it.”

- Frank Zappa

[oldambitioussoul]

“Dissatisfaction with oneself is one of the fundamental characteristics of any talented person.”

- Anton Chekhov

[oldambitioussoul]

“Listen to many, speak to a few.”

- William Shakespeare

[oldambitioussoul]

“All that glitters is not gold.”

- William Shakespeare

[oldambitioussoul]

“If I am killed simply for being alive, let death be kinder than man.”

- Althea Davis

[oldambitioussoul]

“I don’t want to be the one who mourns everything when everyone else has clearly forgotten. It’s mortifying. It’s mortifying to be the one who remembers.”

- Ryan O’Connell

[oldambitioussoul]

“My deplorable mania for analysis exhausts me. I doubt everything, even my doubt.”

- Gustave Flaubert, A Letter to Louise Colbert

[oldambitioussoul]

“Were you dissapointed when you got to know me?”

- Gracious Joey

[oldambitioussoul]

“I felt there was no point in telling anyone anything that was happening inside me.”

- Christa Wolf, Cassandra: a novel and four essays

[oldambitioussoul]

“The Sadness will last forever.”

- Vincent van Gogh

[oldambitioussoul]

“You cannot make everyone think and feel as deeply as you do. This is your tragedy, because you understand them but they do not understand you.”

- Daniel Saint

[oldambitioussoul]

“I have never been the most important thing to anybody — not even myself.”

- Ranata Suzuki

[oldambitioussoul]

“For someone who loved words as much as I did, it was amazing how often they failed me.”

- If We Were Villains, M.L. Rio

[oldambitioussoul]

Donna Tartt was right.

I am nothing in my soul if not obsessive.

Because I need to have an obsession to feel alive. To act. To do. To create.

Madness fuels me. It pushes me to live. It takes me apart and puts back together like puzzle pieces.

I need to feel obsessed or I don’t feel at all.