Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.
– Leo Buscaglia (via mirroir)
(Source: thelittlephilosopher, via dirtymetropolis)
You either like me or you don’t. It took me Twenty-something years to learn how to love myself. I don’t have that kinda time to convince somebody else.
I’m not a model, I don’t have a model’s body, I have a real shape. I’ve been skinny, it’s fucking boring.
– Kate Winslet (via iamtheblender)
(Source: c-r-y-p-s-i-s, via gtfothinspo)
I tried to drown my sorrows but they learned how to swim.
– Frida Kahlo (via angusandjuliastoned)
(Source: nymphetgarden, via beeac)
Every single person has at least one secret that would break your heart. If we could just remember this, I think there would be a lot more compassion and tolerance in the world.
– Frank Warren (via -naan)
(Source: larmoyante, via -naan)
Because nothing makes me happier and nothing makes me sadder than you.
– (via you-were-my-insomnia)
(Source: , via -naan)
I think memory is the most important asset of human beings. It’s a kind of fuel; it burns and it warms you. My memory is like a chest: There are so many drawers in that chest, and when I want to be a fifteen-year-old boy, I open up a certain drawer and I find the scenery I saw when I was a boy in Kobe. I can smell the air, and I can touch the ground, and I can see the green of the trees. That’s why I want to write a book.
– Haruki Murakami (via murakamistuff)
(via dirtymetropolis)
People get really irritated by mental illness. ‘Just fucking get it together! Suck it up, man!’ I had a breakdown, and a spiritual friend came to visit me in the psych ward. And they said, ‘You need to get out of here. Because this is the story you’re telling yourself. You know, Patch Adams has this great work-group camp where you can learn how to really celebrate life.’ It’s something people are so powerless over, and so often they want to make it your fault. It’s nobody fault. I started thinking of suicide when I was 10 years old—I can’t believe that that’s somebody’s fault. Like, ‘Oh, you’re just an attention getter.’ Mental illness isn’t seen as an illness, it’s seen as a choice…. I have a joke about how people don’t talk about mental illness the way they do other regular illnesses. ‘Well, apparently Jeff has cancer. Uh, I have cancer. We all have cancer. You go to chemotherapy you get it taken care of, am I right? You get back to work.’ Or: ‘I was dating this chick, and three months in, she tells me that she wears glasses, and she’s been wearing contact lenses all this time. She needs help seeing. I was like, listen, I’m not into all that Western medicine shit. If you want to see, then work at it. Figure out how not to be so myopic. You know?’
Looks will only get you so far in life. You can stand there with your mouth shut and just look beautiful for about fifteen minutes. After that - you better have something to say for yourself.
– Fran Lebowitz
