Leave the Map Behind

I remember one morning getting up at dawn, there was such a sense of possibility. You know, that feeling? And I remember thinking to myself: So, this is the beginning of happiness. This is where it starts. And of course there will always be more. It never occurred to me it wasn’t the beginning. It was happiness. It was the moment. Right then.

— Clarissa Vaughan, The Hours (2002)

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Decide you want it more than you are afraid of it.

— Bill Cosby (via budddha)

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Grown-ups like numbers. When you tell them about a new friend, they never ask questions about what really matters. They never ask: ‘What does his voice sound like?’ ‘What games does he like best?’ ‘Does he collect butterflies?’ They ask: ‘How old is he?’ ‘How many brothers does he have?’ ‘How much does he weigh?’ ‘How much money does he have?’ Only then do they think they know him. If you tell grown-ups, ‘I saw a beautiful red brick house, with geraniums at the windows and doves at the roof…,’ they won’t be able to imagine such a house. You have to tell them, ‘I saw a house worth a thousand francs.’ Then they exclaim, ‘What a pretty house!’

— The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (via adieufranz)

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Just in case you ever foolishly forget; I’m never not thinking of you.

— Virginia Woolf, Selected Letters (via pukin)

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i need to remember this when they’re crawling on me

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You have the energy of the sun in you.

— Rumi (via coguniverso)

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FOREVER REBLOGG!
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The secret isn’t to find someone you love spending time with - I love spending time with a lot of people. The secret isn’t to find someone that you find attractive - I find a lot of people attractive for many different reasons. The secret isn’t to find someone who is nice - there are tons of nice people in the world. The secret is to find someone who wants exactly what you want. Someone who is ready to give you all they’ve got, and in turn be ready to accept all the love you have to give. The world is filled with people in relationship of “loves you more” & “I have to act mean so they will like me back” or “I am just not ready.” Please do not waste any more of your precious time. You are an amazing creature. You deserve to be loved until your insides melt. Don’t give up on all the things you want. When you meet the right person you will have zero doubt in your mind. Zero.

— This, this, this, this. THIS. (via xokrista)

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Mom,

Here are some of the things I wish I could’ve said to you today but didn’t because I didn’t want to speak out of anger and do irrevocable harm to you. Because unlike you, I will think before I speak, and when I do speak, I will carefully try to watch the manner in which I speak because I love you, and never want to hurt you.