Today I am in control because I want to be. I have my fingers on the switch, but have lived a lifetime ignoring the control I have over my own world. Today is different.

A.S. King

Taking one’s chances is like taking a bath, because sometimes you end up feeling comfortable and warm, and sometimes there is something terrible lurking around that you cannot see until it is too late and you can do nothing else but scream and cling to a plastic duck.

Lemony Snicket, The Slippery Slope

Be proud of every scar on your heart, each one holds a lifetime’s worth of lessons.

Wallace Stegne

To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.

Thich Nhat Hanh

Whoever decided the order of the alphabet really snapped because it makes so much sense to me, like “ABC”, “WXYZ”, “LMNOPQRSTUV”, like exactly bestie

I was quiet; but I was not blind.

Jane Austen

If you feel lost, there is always a map, you just might not to see it yet.

Unkown

Sometimes we can’t find the thing that will make us happy, because we can’t let go of the thing that was supposed to.

Robert Brault

You can't change how people treat you or what they say about you. All you can do is change how you react to it.

Nicky Gumbel

Love was love, one could find it with anyone, one could find it anywhere. It was just that you could never keep it. Not unless you were ready to die for it.

Norman Mailer, An American Dream

This is my Instagram profile

Everything seems okay. And then: a word, a line, a picture, a song…

Thoughtkick

I pretend to ignore you, but I really just miss you.

Sometimes it is the smallest thing that saves us: the weather growing cold, a child’s smile, and a cup of excellent coffee.

Jonathan Carroll

This is what I like about photographs. They’re proof that once, even if just for a heartbeat, everything was perfect.

Jodi Picoult

I wish that photographs were physical spaces, like tunnels; that you could crawl inside them and go back.

Lauren Oliver, Vanishing Girls

If people are doubting

how far you can go,

go so far that you can't

hear them anymore.

- Michele Ruiz

Summer is near and things will be okay again.

Unknown

I used to imagine adventures for myself, I invented a life, so that I could at least exist somehow.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky