“Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that’s real power.”
— Clint Eastwood
“You know how every once in a while you do something and the little voice inside says ‘There. That’s it. That’s why you’re here’ … and you get a warm glow in your heart because you know it’s true? Do more of that.”
— Jacob Nordby
in a different life.
Alice Notley, from In the Pines
[Text ID: “I will search for you across heaven,”]
and at some point I thought to myself: ‘no person deserves this,’ and I realized that includes even me.
Unknown (via thehopefulquotes)
“You’ll break your own heart if you fall in love with ideas and not people.”
— Bridgett Devoue
Albert Camus
People think being alone makes you lonely, but I don’t think that’s true. Being surrounded by the wrong people is the loneliest thing in the world.
Kim Culbertson (via quotemadness)
you’re such an absent friend, I can’t even call you that no more.
Be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here.
Max Ehrmann (via quotemadness)
how discouraging it is to be there for everyone, but whenever you need someone, no one comes to.