“Your silence will not protect you.”
— Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
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“You are here just to be, for no reason. You have no mission except to enjoy life, to be happy. The only thing you need is just to be the real you. Be authentic. Be the presence. Be happiness. Be love. Be joy. Be yourself; that’s the main point. That’s wisdom.”
— don Miguel Ruiz
““The only writers who have any peace are the ones who don’t write. And there are some like that. They wallow in a sea of possibilities. To express a thought, you first have to limit it, and that means kill it. Every word I speak robs me of a thousand others, and every line I write means giving up another.””
— Stanisław Lem, “Hospital of the Transfiguration” (via secondwing)
“It’s funny how you can go for a long time in life not needing someone, and then you meet them and you suddenly need them all the time.”
— Meg Wolitzer, Belzhar (via the-book-diaries)
“Some people feel like they don’t deserve love. They walk away quietly into empty spaces, trying to close the gaps of the past.”
— Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild
(via ohteenscanrelate)