Someday I shall imagine my way out of these prison walls. I will. I just know I will.
He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.
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| — | Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina |
Life is a question of nerves, and fibres, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams. You may fancy yourself safe and think yourself strong. But a chance tone of colour in a room or a morning sky, a particular perfume that you had once loved and that brings subtle memories with it, a line from a forgotten poem that you had come across again, a cadence from a piece of music that you had ceased to play… I tell you, that it is on things like these that our lives depend.
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| — | Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray |
Bookshelves at the Austrian National Library (Österreichische Nationalbibliothek) in Vienna, July 2012. (via lostsplendor, booklover)
I wanna live there <3
The tears I shed, I forgive.
The suffering and disappointments, I forgive.
The betrayals and lies, I forgive.
The slandering and scheming, I forgive.
The hatred and persecution, I forgive.
The punches that were given, I forgive.
The shattered dreams, I forgive.
The dead hopes, I forgive.
The disaffection and jealousy, I forgive.
The indifference and ill will, I forgive.
The injustice in the name of justice, I forgive.
The anger and mistreatment, I forgive.
The neglect and oblivion, I forgive.
The world with all its evil, I forgive.
Grief and resentment, I replace with understanding and agreement.
Revolt, I replace with music that comes from my violin.
Pain I replace with oblivion.
Revenge, I replace with victory.
I will be able to love above all discontentment.
To give even when I am stripped of everything.
To work happily even when I find myself in the midst of all obstacles.
To dry tears even when I am still crying.
To believe even when I am discredited.
Paulo Coelho.
Aleph.
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You must always follow the road to which you are led by your heart, even if that means you need to struggle a little more; if you fight hard enough, you will eventually carve your way out of difficulties and reach your wanted destination.
