“One Smile, Can Start A Friendship. One Word, Can End A Fight. One Look, Can Save A Relationship. One

i wish we were two cats so that we could curl up in a lovely friendship ball

“There’s something beautiful about keeping certain aspects of your life hidden. Maybe people and clouds are beautiful because you can’t see everything.”

— Kamenashi Kazuya

“It makes me sad waking up alone when there’s someone willing to wake up with me”

— -3 am thoughts (via suspend)

Very interesting to me that T. S. Eliot is often quoted as saying "Good poets borrow. Great poets steal." When in fact what he actually said was "One of the surest of tests is the way in which a poet borrows. Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different. The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different from that from which it was torn; the bad poet throws it into something which has no cohesion. A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time, or alien in language, or diverse in interest." Which of course has a completely different meaning, less "All the greats plagiarize," and more "Completely original ideas are a fantasy; the originality lies in how you weave an idea that has been previously woven differently."

“I want to talk about what happened without mentioning how much it hurt. There has to be a way. To care for the wounds without reopening them. To name the pain without inviting it back into me.”

— Lora Mathis

“Anytime you’re gonna grow, you’re gonna lose something. You’re losing what you’re hanging onto to keep safe. You’re losing habits that you’re comfortable with, you’re losing familiarity.”

— James Hillman

“Let someone love you the way you are - as flawed as you might be, as unattractive as you sometimes feel, and as unaccomplished as you think you are. To believe that you must hide all the parts of you that are broken, out of fear that someone else is incapable of loving what is less than perfect, is to believe that sunlight is incapable of entering a broken window and illuminating a dark room.”

— Mark Hack

“Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.”

— Stephen R. Covey

“He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster.. and when you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“And it seems I must always write you letters that I can never send.”

— Sylvia Plath