Still wear the scars like it was yesterday

Being alone is another pleasure we too often neglect. When we are alone, we go on the Internet or TV to see what else is going on, what others are doing or saying, instead of just being alone. This isolation is a necessary thing, that allows us to find ourselves, to learn to be content with little instead of always wanting more.

Can you practice being alone, being still, being quiet? Just a little at first, then perhaps a bit more. Listen, watch, learn about yourself. Find contentment. Need nothing more.

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—	Leo Babauta (via catharsis421)

Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.

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—	Sylvia Plath (via roscoe-)

arianesantos:

“but find yourself moving on”

The only obsession everyone wants: Love. People think that in falling in love they make themselves whole? The Platonic union of souls? I think otherwise. I think you’re whole before you begin. And the love fractures you. You’re whole, and then you’re cracked open.

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—	Philip Roth (via eletheowl)

There was a long hard time when I kept far from me the remembrance of what I had thrown away when I was quite ignorant of its worth.

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—	Charles Dickens, Great Expectations (via bookmania)

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Gonna stare at this for the next hour. Maybe I’ll figure something out.