We all have different desires and needs, but if we don’t discover what we want from ourselves and what we stand for, we will live passively and unfulfilled.
— Bill Watterson (via kari-shma)
We all do things we desperately wish we could undo. Those regrets just become part of who we are, along with everything else. To spend time trying to change that, well, it’s like chasing clouds.
— Libba Bray (via kari-shma)
Never pretend that the things you haven’t got are not worth having.
— Virginia Woolf (via kari-shma)
A past may chase you if you try to escape from it… but once you confront it, it’s just an old memory inside you. There’s nothing to be afraid of.
— Kazuya Minekura (via kari-shma)
I do not understand why you would go out of your way to hurt each other, when life can already hurt so much.
What you have lost will not be returned to you; it always be lost. You’re left with only your scars to mark the void. All you can choose to do is go on, or not. But if you go on, it’s knowing you carry your scars with you.
— Charles Frazier (via kari-shma)
It is not what they take away from you that counts. It’s what you do with what you have left.
— Hubert Humphrey (via kari-shma)
My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.
— Anais Nin (via kari-shma)
My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.
— Anais Nin (via kari-shma)
Sometimes, just saying that you hate something, and having someone agree with you, can make you feel better about a terrible situation.
