June 2011
“So avoid using the word ‘very’ because it’s lazy. A man is not very tired, he is exhausted. Don’t use very sad, use morose. Language was invented for one reason, boys - to woo women - and, in that endeavour, laziness will not do. It also won’t do in your essays.”
—John Keating, Dead Poet’s Society (via e-pic)
She was beautiful, but she was beautiful in the way a forest fire was beautiful.
“Try not to become a man of success, but rather a man of value.”
—Albert Einstein (via quote-book)
“Crying is all right in its own way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do.”
—C.S. Lewis (via kari-shma)
“Stars are beautiful, but they must not take an active part in anything, they must just look on forever. It is a punishment put on them for something they did so long ago that no star now knows what it was.”
—Peter Pan, J.M. Barrie (via lovesolitudes)
“Problems, weaknesses, setbacks, regrets and mistakes teach you if you’re willing to learn, or they punish you if you’re not.”
—Ralph Marston (via inspirart)
“I look back in regret I ignored when they said run as fast as you can.”
—Taylor Swift
“The best way to get over a woman is to turn her into literature.”
—Henry Miller (via laceofpearls)
I may not be perfect. I may not be beautiful, but I’d rather be myself than anyone else. <3
