There was so much sadness in everything, even when things worked.
― Charles Bukowski

(Source: henrycharlesbukowski)

O, to be sure, we laugh less and play less and wear uncomfortable disguises like adults, but beneath the costume is the child we always are, whose needs are simple, whose daily life is still best described by fairy tales.
― Leo Rosten

da-int:

i hate the feeling when you don’t really have any emotion. you feel so empty.  You’re not happy, You’re not sad, You’re nothing. When your mind is spinning , but you can’t feel anything.

(Source: fickin)

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
― Albert Schweitzer 

(Source: blua)

They don’t teach you this in school. They don’t show you the beauty of existing, they don’t show you the wonder of the earth, they don’t show you the unity that human beings are. They show you who’s better, who’s worse. They show you what they need to show you in order for their system to survive. They don’t show you love.
Literature On High 

(Source: moon-in-a-dewdrop)

The Sun, the Moon, and the stars would have disappeared long ago… had they been in the reach of predatory human hands.
― Havelock Ellis

(Source: pyrrhic-victoria)

People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within.
― Elisabeth Ross

(Source: blua)

The untranslatable thought must be the most precise.

Yet words are not the end of thought, they are where it begins.
― Jane Hirschfield, from “After Long Silence” in After 

(Source: proustitute)

I am so busy keeping my head above water that I scarcely know who I am, much less who anyone else is.
― Sylvia Plath 

(Source: allmymetaphors)