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And here’s the thing. Sometimes following your curiosity will lead you to your passion. Sometimes it won’t, and then guess what? That’s still totally fine. You’ve lived a life following your curiosity. You’ve created a life that is a very interesting thing, different from anybody else’s. And your life itself then becomes the work of art, not so much contingent upon what you produced, but about a certain spirit of being that I think is a lot more interesting and also a lot more sustainable.

Elizabeth Gilbert, “Choosing Curiosity Over Fear” (On Being)

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Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled. You’ve got to relax, let it happen at times, and at others move forward with it.

Ray Bradbury (via wordsnquotes)

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It’s hard to explain, this feeling; it’s like there’s two of me. One part is yearning for my friends; the other doesn’t know how to connect with them anymore, as if they are people I’ve never met.

NoViolet Bulawayo (via merulae)

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Kate Chopin, The Awakening

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Death smiles upon us all. All a man can do is smile back.

Marcus Aurelius (via fyp-philosophy)

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Why I have been so quiet.

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are you seeing anyone atm?

yeah a therapist

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I exist only when I am writing. I am nothing when I am not writing. I am fully a stranger to myself, when I am not writing. Yet when I am writing, you cannot see me. No one can see me. You can watch a director directing, a singer singing, an actor acting, but no one can see what writing is.

Ingeborg Bachmann, tr. by Philip Boehm, from Malina: A Novel (via violentwavesofemotion)

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Your only problem, perhaps, is that you scream without letting yourself cry.

Friedrich Nietzsche, Selected Letters (via fyp-philosophy)

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I come out short of breath from chasing after my dreams.

Angélique Culvin

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Losing track of days again, when 4 days feels like "just yesterday" and so if he's been silent for one week, I wonder what that really means.

Angélique Culvin

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We shall never escape from each other.

Edna St. Vincent Millay, from a letter to Arthur Davison Ficke featured in Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay (via violentwavesofemotion)

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This may be news to you, but we’re not coming out of this alive. In all frankness, I lost my faith in humanity a long time ago.

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Weak

Today I find myself weak. Weak of the heart and soul. Weak that I can’t go on. My stomach aches and turns, my thoughts a poisonous pit. What more is left?

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i wrote this HOW TO BE HAPPY HAPPIER guide for Design*Sponge because i had a shitty few weeks earlier this month and i needed some of my own advice to get out of it

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New piece, hope you like it! xo Lang

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My NEW book The Universe of Us is now available in bookstores worldwide and online here

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Who made you this way? And do they still matter?

Don’t let someone who is no longer in your life affect you  (via ablogwithaview)