"If you could only tell them that living and spending isn’t the same thing! But it’s no good. If only they were educated to live instead of earn and spend, they could manage very happily."

D.H. Lawrence

"You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace."

Frank McCourt

(Source: quote-book)

"I’m restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again."

Anaïs Nin

(Source: talisman)

"I wish I’d done everything on Earth with you."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby.

(Source: larmoyante)

"Don’t you think it would be wonderful to get rid of everything and everybody and just go some place where you don’t know a soul?"

Haruki Murakami

(Source: vvolare)

"I think things are beautiful when you don’t plan them, and you don’t have any expectations, and you’re not trying to get somewhere in particular."

Alison Mosshart 

(Source: ramblingwoman78)

"Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals. He sets them to work, he gives back to them the bare minimum that will prevent them from starving, and the rest he keeps for himself."

Animal Farm

(Source: eatyourbrainsoutbaby)

"We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken."

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

(Source: quote-book)

"We were not born critical of existing society. There was a moment in our lives (or a month, or a year) when certain facts appeared before us, startled us, and then caused us to question beliefs that were strongly fixed in our consciousness-embedded there by years of family prejudices, orthodox schooling, imbibing of newspapers, radio, and television. This would seem to lead to a simple conclusion: that we all have an enormous responsibility to bring to the attention of others information they do not have, which has the potential of causing them to rethink long-held ideas."

Howard Zinn

"Stay neurotic. Stay frustrated. Stay emotional. Stay excited. Your life is happening."

Erin Foster

(Source: heresthething888)

"We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life. And I am horribly limited."

Sylvia Plath

"

Once you start to speak, people will yell at you. They will interrupt you, put you down and suggest it’s personal. And the world won’t end.

And the speaking will get easier and easier. And you will find you have fallen in love with your own vision, which you may never have realized you had. And you will lose some friends and lovers, and realize you don’t miss them. And new ones will find you and cherish you. And you will still flirt and paint your nails, dress up and party, because, as I think Emma Goldman said, “If I can’t dance, I don’t want to be part of your revolution.” And at last you’ll know with surpassing certainty that only one thing is more frightening than speaking your truth. And that is not speaking.

"

Audre Lorde

(Source: thechocolatebrigade)

"So much working, reading, thinking, living to do. A lifetime is not long enough."

Sylvia Plath

(Source: larmoyante)

"I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen."

John Steinbeck

(Source: saddest-summer)