If you are trying to reach all the grandeur of the world, you might not fit here anymore.

 

- Você é feliz?
- Não.
- Já tentou correr atrás da felicidade?
- Sim, mas desisti quando vi ela beijando outro.

Capitulei. (via gratificar)

(Source: capitulei)

Nasci dura, heróica, solitária e em pé. E encontrei meu contraponto na paisagem sem pitoresco e sem beleza. A feiúra é o meu estandarte de guerra. Eu amo o feio com um amor de igual para igual. E desafio a morte. Eu – eu sou a minha própria morte. E ninguém vai mais longe. O que há de bárbaro em mim procura o bárbaro e cruel fora de mim. Vejo em claros e escuros os rostos das pessoas que vacilam às chamas da fogueira. Sou uma árvore que arde com duro prazer. Só uma doçura me possui: a conivência com o mundo. Eu amo a minha cruz, a que doloridamente carrego. É o mínimo que posso fazer de minha vida: aceitar comiseravelmente o sacrifício da noite.

Clarice Lispector.  (via manuscrituras)

(Source: companhiadaspalavras)

Marry your best friend. I do not say that lightly. Really, truly find the strongest, happiest friendship in the person you fall in love with. Someone who speaks highly of you. Someone you can laugh with. The kind of laughs that make your belly ache, and your nose snort. The embarrassing, earnest, healing kind of laughs. Wit is important. Life is too short not to love someone who lets you be a fool with them. Make sure they are somebody who lets you cry, too. Despair will come. Find someone that you want to be there with you through those times. Most importantly, marry the one that makes passion, love, and madness combine and course through you. A love that will never dilute - even when the waters get deep, and dark.

N’tima

(Source: mariaarroyo)


“Anything on earth that a woman does, is, or is capable of doing, is womanly. It is impossible for a woman to be unwomanly because a woman is a woman. Therefore, anything a woman does is womanly by default. Fighting is womanly. Winning fights is womanly. Bruises are womanly. Savagery is womanly. Unwholesomeness is womanly. Athleticism is womanly.”
— Lindy West

“Anything on earth that a woman does, is, or is capable of doing, is womanly. It is impossible for a woman to be unwomanly because a woman is a woman. Therefore, anything a woman does is womanly by default. Fighting is womanly. Winning fights is womanly. Bruises are womanly. Savagery is womanly. Unwholesomeness is womanly. Athleticism is womanly.”

— Lindy West

(Source: lateralsymmetry)

Looking back

An old chest in an attic

—Covered in dust, alone.

Is it treasure?

—Is it something important

From the past?

-

An abandoned building

—Worn down, dejected, and alone.

Was it once important?

—Was it once a building

That was respected?

-

These things might’ve been

—Treasured once, but not now.

They are just left alone

—To rot away.

-

There’s a man

—Standing on a street corner alone.

His clothes are tattered;

—His hair is mangy.

Was he once important

—Even though he stands battered?

-

I am here

—Sitting on the floor, alone.

My eyes are tear stained;

—My heart is heavy.

Am I important

—Even though I look pained?

thcbodycleanse:

this is like when you’re sitting with someone that you really like then you like touch knees or something and all of a sudden you feel all this energy going through both of you through this one point of contact
this gif is kinda like that

thcbodycleanse:

this is like when you’re sitting with someone that you really like then you like touch knees or something and all of a sudden you feel all this energy going through both of you through this one point of contact

this gif is kinda like that

(Source: elentori)

I firmly believe in small gestures: pay for their coffee, hold the door for strangers, over tip, smile or try to be kind even when you don’t feel like it, pay compliments, chase the kid’s runaway ball down the sidewalk and throw it back to him, try to be larger than you are— particularly when it’s difficult. People do notice, people appreciate. I appreciate it when it’s done to (for) me. Small gestures can be an effort, or actually go against our grain (“I’m not a big one for paying compliments…”), but the irony is that almost every time you make them, you feel better about yourself. For a moment life suddenly feels lighter, a bit more Gene Kelly dancing in the rain.