I want to beg you, as much as I can, dear sir, to be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue.Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
Every day I put love on the line. There is nothing I am less good at than love. I am far better in competition than in love. I am far better at responding to my instincts and ambitions to get ahead and make my mark than I am at figuring out how to love another. I am schooled and trained in acquisitive skills, in getting my own way. And yet I decide, every day, to set aside what I can do best and attempt what I do very clumsily— open myself to the frustrations and failures of loving, daring to believe that failing in love is better than succeeding in pride.Eugene Peterson
Remember: that giants sleep too soundly; that witches are often betrayed by their appetites; dragons have one soft spot, somewhere, always; hearts can be well-hidden, and you can betray them with your tongue. Neil Gaiman (Fragile Things)(Source: justbesplendid)
(Source: justbesplendid)
The snow and I both
have the most uncanny knack
of falling for you.Daily Haiku on Love by Tyler Knott Gregson (via tylerknott)
(Source: kathleenetrujillo, via amilliontoone)
Really great people make you feel that you, too, can become great.Mark Twain (via fauxprose)(Source: lorenrochelle, via quote-book)
I feel as though it’s all happening to someone right next to me. I’m close, I can feel it, I can hear it, but it isn’t really me.
- Marilyn Monroe
(via fuckyeahmarilynmonroe)
The man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.James Crook (via quote-book)
