Curiosities

Forgive yourself for not knowing what you didn’t know before you learned it.

—Maya Angelou (via thatkindofwoman)

(via thatkindofwoman)

Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It’s the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could.

—Louise Erdrich, The Painted Drum
(via h-o-r-n-g-r-y)

(via thatkindofwoman)

You will die a thousand times before you wake up feeling alive in your own skin. You will love all of the wrong hearts before you realize the strength in your own.

—Anonymous

(via youngfolksociety)

(via ironworthstriking)

The more relaxed you are, the better you are at everything: the better you are with your loved ones, the better you are with your enemies, the better you are at your job, the better you are with yourself.

—Bill Murray (via h-o-r-n-g-r-y)