"I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. 
And it’s these things I’d believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn’t all she should be. I love her and it is the beginning of everything."

— F. Scott Fitzgerald on Zelda Fitzgerald

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‎"This being human is a guest house. 

Every morning a new arrival." 

-Rumi

{via modern hepburn}

"The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – that you’d thought special, particular to you. And here it is, set down by someone else, a person you’ve never met, maybe even someone long dead. And it’s as if a hand has come out, and taken yours."

—Alan Bennett, The History Boys

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{via hrrrthrrr}

{via bleubird}

"Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you allows your soul room to grow. Never expect to outgrow loneliness. Never hope to find people who will understand you, someone to fill that space. An intelligent, sensitive person is the exception, the very great exception. If you expect to find people who will understand you, you will grow murderous with disappointment. The best you’ll ever do is to understand yourself, know what it is you want, and not let the cattle stand in your way." 

–Janet Fitch

{via the decorista}

{via buzzfeed}

{via photojojo}

"...I also remember driving you home in a white dress, I remember losing my heart before my head and I remember coming home with slumped shoulders and a prizefighter grin. I drank honey that summer. I drank cold water. I drank rum in the shade. And that's when I found prayer, though only to the ghosts of history. After too many cigarettes, ask me for a ride home. It's time I should leave." 

-from Old Flames IV: I Was Sleeping A Mountain, by Jake Kilroy

{by anka zhuravleva}

{via design scouting}

{via forgotten ships}

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else's life. Don’t be trapped by dogma- which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”

-Steve Jobs

{via 1000drawings}

{by Daniela Henríquez}

{via the raspberry skies}

{via hiphipgingin}

{via The New Yorker}

Thanks to Drive, I can't stop listening to this song.

"What you are in love with, what seizes your imagination, will affect everything. It will decide what gets you out of bed in the mornings, what you do with your evenings, how you spend your weekends, what you read, who you know, what breaks your heart, and what amazes you. Fall in love, stay in love, and it will decide everything."

-Pedro Arrupe

{via abby goes design scouting}

thanks, winfred :)

"But then they danced down the streets like dingledodies, and I shambled after as I've been doing all my life after people who interest me, because the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes 'Awww!'"

-Sal Paradise, On The Road

{via 100 Layer Cake}

{Wide Open Spaces via A Cup of Jo}

{via this is glamorous}

"there's something about wildflowers, the way they can grow anywhere."

The Whore of Mensa

All you need to know about this short film: my dear friend Whitney plays an "intellectual prostitute."

{via vintage sonia}

{by Li Hui}

"From the time I was a kid, I always knew something was going to happen to me. Didn't know exactly what."

-Elvis Presley

{via first book}

{via silver clouds}

{via Where The Wild Things Are}

{via A Cup of Jo}

"If you are interested in something, no matter what it is, go at it at full speed ahead. Embrace it with both arms, hug it, love it and above all become passionate about it. Lukewarm is no good. Hot is no good either. White hot and passionate is the only thing to be.”

-Roald Dahl 

{via embracing trees}

{by katie vernon}

{via the loveliest}

{by c86}

{by photobonnie}

{via ordinary finds}

{via rue magazine}

[turned my apartment into a painty party with miss kim orr on saturday night]

{via vogue}

{via rue magazine}

{via The New Yorker}

Shakespeare's Writer's Block

{via seesaw designs}

{by allison schulnik}

{source}

{via james chapman}

"the privilege of a lifetime is being who you are."

-joseph campbell

{via karishma}

{via this is glamorous}

{via Love and Peace or Else}

"I leave for New York City tonight to see it for the first time and I feel like I'm revisiting a beautiful lucid dream I had as a kid. Can you feel nostalgia for a place you've never been before?"

-Jake

{via National Geographic}

Never Run Out Of Books To Read.

"There’s so much, you know. I only have one rule when it comes to fiction: I don’t read writers that are worse than me. And that leaves so much to read. I’ll never run out of books. For a fiction writer, that can be the most depressing thing to contemplate. You go to the new fiction table and you just want to kill yourself. You’ve never heard of any of these books, they all look great, and how is anyone going to come across my novel in this sea of fiction that’s being generated? But as a reader it’s just such an awesome thought: you’ll never run out of books to read."

— Ayelet Waldman, author of multiple novels including Red Hook Road and Love and Other Impossible Pursuits, lays out her media diet. Read the rest at The Atlantic Wire.

{via The Atlantic}

"It is our failure to become our perceived ideal that ultimately defines us and makes us unique. It's not easy, but if you accept your misfortune and handle it right, your perceived failure can become a catalyst for profound reinvention." -Conan O'Brien

Paris Air Show, 1909

{via final boss form}

The Agony & Ecstacy of Ideas.

{via brain pickings}