“I too want to be important. By being different. And these girls are all the same.”

—Sylvia Plath

“Live your life so well that death will tremble to take you.”

—Charles Bukowski (via wilwheaton)

“Imagine yourself a caterpillar.
There’s an awful shrug and, suddenly,
You’re beautiful for as long as you live.”

—Poem for People That Are Understandably Too Busy To Read Poetry, Stephen Dunn

“We’re all like eggs — fragile and full of possibilities. But unless we come out of our shells, we just stay eggs.”

—Jim Lewis

“So I figured, if the entire world was one big machine, I couldn’t be an extra part. I had to be here for some reason…”

—Hugo

“Can you understand? Someone, somewhere, can you understand me a little, love me a little? For all my despair, for all my ideals, for all that - I love life. But it is hard, and I have so much - so very much to learn.”

—Sylvia Plath (via shxt)

(Source: atomiclanterns)

“Only hang around people that are positive and make you feel good. Anybody who doesn’t make you feel good, kick them to the curb. And the earlier you start in your life the better. The minute anybody makes you feel weird and non-included or not supported, you know, either beat it or tell them to beat it.”

—Amy Poehler (via drinkyourjuice)

(Source: harusuisen)

“So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?”

—Hunter S. Thompson