"Freedom is not something you find or someone gives you. It is something you assume. And then you wait for someone to come and take it away from you. The amount of resistance you put up is the amount of freedom you will have."

Will D. Campbell

"Vieille forêt, salut! Mais tous ces coeurs candides
Qu’on voyait tressaillir comme les daims timides
Que le cor du chasseur a réveillés soudain.
Que sont-ils devenus! Je les appelle en vain!…
Et le joli village avec ses toits de chaume?
Et la petite église avec son léger dôme?"

Henry W. Longfellow, “Évangéline.

"Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather, and a little music out of doors, played by somebody I do not know."

John Keats

"

there is a loneliness in this world so great
that you can see it in the slow movement of
the hands of a clock.

people so tired
mutilated
either by love or no love.

people just are not good to each other
one on one.

the rich are not good to the rich
the poor are not good to the poor.

we are afraid.

our educational system tells us
that we can all be
big-ass winners.

it hasn’t told us
about the gutters
or the suicides.

or the terror of one person
aching in one place
alone

untouched
unspoken to

watering a plant.

"

Charles Bukowski, “Love Is A Dog From Hell

"And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it."

Roald Dahl  (via callofthemountains)
Seen at my favourite vegetarian restaurant. 

Seen at my favourite vegetarian restaurant. 

“Vice, Virtue. It’s best not to be too moral. You cheat yourself out of too much life. Aim above morality. If you apply that to life, then you’re bound to live life fully.”

"Earth! — Earth! — Earth!
Earth with thy folds, and hollows, and holes,
Into which a man may fling himself and crouch down.
In the spasm of terror, under the hailing of annihilation,
In the bellowing death of the explosions,
O Earth, thou grantest us the great resisting surge of new-won life.
Our being, almost utterly carried away by the fury of the storm,
Streams back through our hands from thee,
And we, thy redeemed ones, bury ourselves in thee,
And through the long minutes in a mute agony of hope
Bite into thee with our lips!"

“All Quiet On The Western Front,” - Erich Maria Remarque

"In one of those stars I shall be living. In one of them I shall be laughing. And so it will be as if all the stars were laughing, when you look at the sky at night. And when your sorrow is comforted (time soothes all sorrows) you will be content that you have known me. You will always be my friend…I shall not leave you."

Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince (via acynicalcunt)

"Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative."

Oscar Wilde