→ Sep 2011 "Society goes on telling you, “This is right, and that is wrong”—that is conscience. It becomes ingrained, implanted in you. You go on repeating it. That is worthless; that is not the real thing. The real thing is your own consciousness. It carries no ready-made answers about what is wrong and what is right, no. But immediately, in what-ever situation arises, it gives you light —you know immediately what to do"
— Osho (via hip-)
→ Sep 2011 "I don’t want to be married just to be married. I can’t think of anything lonelier than spending the rest of my life with someone I can’t talk to, or worse, someone I can’t be silent with."
— Mary Ann Shaffer (via kari-shma)
→ Sep 2011 "I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. One fig was a husband and a happy home and children, and another fig was a famous poet and another fig was a brilliant professor, and another fig was Ee Gee, the amazing editor, and another fig was Europe and Africa and South America, and another fig was an Olympic lady crew champion, and beyond and above these figs were many more figs I couldn’t quite make out. I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn’t make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet."
— The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (via quote-book)
→ Sep 2011 "You cannot dream yourself into a character: you must hammer and forge yourself into one."
— Henry David Thoreau (via imfantasyparade)
→ Sep 2011 "I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love."
— Marilyn Monroe (via quote-book)
→ Sep 2011 "Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down."
— Ray Bradbury (via danceabletragedy)
→ Sep 2011 "Ugly is irrelevant. It is an immeasurable insult to a woman, and then supposedly the worst crime you can commit as a woman. But ugly, as beautiful, is an illusion. A matter of taste, a whim, an eye, a beholder, an opinion, a spin, light crossing the frame, paint, projection. The moment. Context."
— Margaret Cho (via light-essence)
→ Sep 2011 "Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."
— Pablo Picasso (via 1000scientists)
→ Sep 2011 "Things are sweeter when they’re lost. I know—because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly…And when I got it it turned to dust in my hands."
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, “The Beautiful and Damned” (via oh-phelia)
