"How can you respect the world when you see it’s being run by a bunch of kids turned old?"

-John Updike, Rabbit is Rich (via quota-tions)

"If you’ve been up all night and cried till you have no more tears left in you — you will know that there comes in the end a sort of quietness. You feel as if nothing was ever going to happen again."

-C. S. Lewis (via apuv)

"Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience."

-Paul Coelho (via phalangesx5x)

"Haven’t you learned anything, not even with the approach of death? Stop thinking all the time that you’re in the way, that you’re bothering the person next to you. If people don’t like it, they can complain. And if they don’t have the courage to complain, that’s their problem."

-Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die (via madwars)

"

We are travelers on a cosmic journey,
stardust,
swirling and dancing
in the eddies and whirlpools of infinity.

Life is eternal.

We have stopped for a moment to encounter each other,
to meet,
to love,
to share.

This is a precious moment.
It is a little parenthesis in eternity.

"

-Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist (via aestheticization)

"Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own."

-Paul Coelho, The Alchemist (via skewedhearts)