“Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.”
— Soren Kierkegaard (via livejamie)
“Generally, by the time you are real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don’t matter at all, because once you are real you can’t be ugly, except to people who don’t understand.”
— “The Velveteen Rabbit” by Margery Williams (via julie911)
“Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible. As a child I felt myself to be alone, and I am still, because I know things and must hint at things which others apparently know nothing of, and for the most part do not want to know.”
— Carl Jung (via dewdropsoflove)
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“I am an idealist. I don’t know where I’m going, but I’m on my way.”
— Carl Sandburg (via Swanfeather Songs)
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“And once the storm is over you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, in fact, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm you won’t be the same person who walked in.”
— Haruki Murakami (via misanthropyaddict)
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But the more you watch Japanese television, the more you feel it’s watching you.
Chris Marker, Sans Soleil (1983).
“Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.”
