"We humans can tolerate suffering, but we cannot tolerate meaninglessness."
Desmond Tutu (via word-collector)
"The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference."
Elie Wiesel (via word-collector)
"Maybe everybody in the whole damn world’s scared of each other."
Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck (via word-collector)
"We’re all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing."
Charles Bukowski (via moldavia)
(Source: whileeveryonesleeps, via loveyourchaos)
"Books… are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with ‘em, then we grow out of ‘em and leave ‘em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development."
Dorothy L. Sayers (via anastasiabooks)
(via teachingliteracy)
"Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born."
Anais Nin (via welovewriters)
"One of the most troublesome things in life is that what you do or do not want has very little to do with what does or does not happen."
Lemony Snicket (via theprincessleah)
(Source: remembermeright, via melusinahp)
"It starts with this: put your desk in the corner, and every time you sit down there to write, remind yourself why it isn’t in the middle of the room. Life isn’t a support-system for art. It’s the other way around."
On Writing by Stephen King (via lifeofliterature)
(via teachingliteracy)
"Anarchism, stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion; the liberation of the human body from the dominion of property; liberation from the shackles and restraint of government."
Emma Goldman, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_Goldman (via socialguerrilla)
(Source: goodreads.com, via grrrlvirus-deactivated20120426)
