“Do Not Settle For Less Than Exactly What You Want. Your Heart’s Desires Are There For A Reason.

“Dreams feel real while we’re in them. It’s only when we wake up that we realize something was actually strange.”

— Inception (via amortizing)

“They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.”

— Kahlil Gibran (via goodreadss)

“You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. This is a power you can cultivate. If you want to control things in your life so bad, work on the mind. That’s the only thing you should be trying to control.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love (via naturaekos)

Dancing on the beach in The Gambia

““How often, you wonder, has the direction of your life been shaped by such misunderstandings? How many opportunities have you been denied—or, for that matter, awarded — because someone failed to see you properly? How many friends have you lost, how many have you gained, because they glimpsed some element of your personality that shone through for only an instant, and in circumstances you could never reproduce? An illusion of water shimmering at the far bend of a highway.””

— Kevin Brockmeier, The View from the Seventh Layer (via naturaekos)

“You don’t pass or fail at being a person, dear.”

— Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane (via naturaekos)

If I ask nicely will people reblog this or do I have to be clever and funny or something too?

“Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living.”

—  Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (via amortizing)