Before you speak, ask yourself, is it kind, is it necessary, is it true, does it improve on the silence?
—
Sai Baba
(via wishinfoolius)
I want to be like water. I want to slip through fingers, but hold up a ship.
— Michelle Williams (via stayven-carnivale)
To ensure good health: eat lightly, breathe deeply, live moderately, cultivate cheerfulness, and maintain an interest in life.
— William Londen (via b-odyrockin)
Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.
— Martin Luther King Jr. (via larmoyante)
“from the complications of loving you i think there is no end or return. no answer, no coming out of it. which is the only way to love, isn’t it? this isn’t a playground, this is earth, our heaven, for a while. therefore i have given precedence to all my sudden, sullen, dark moods that hold you in the center of my world. and i say to my body: grow thinner still. and i say to my fingers, type me a pretty song. and i say to my heart: rave on.”
― Mary Oliver, Thirst
“I read the way a person might swim, to save his or her life. I wrote that way too.”
― Mary Oliver, Wild Geese
I’m not sure if the world’s all that serious, she said, or if it just has a really dark way of having a good time.
Bon voyage
To live in this world
you must be able
to do three things:
to love what is mortal;
to hold it
against your bones knowing
your own life depends on it;
and, when the time comes to let it go,
to let it go.
— Mary Oliver
I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world.
— Albert Camus
We tell ourselves stories in order to live.
— Joan Didion in The White Album
