Adrift in the void...

That was a memorable day to me, for it made great changes in me. But, it is the same with any life. Imagine one selected day struck out of it and think how different its course would have been. Pause, you who read this, and think for a long moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on that memorable day. -charles dickens, great expectations  Fire(s) Burning

There is no sun without shadow, and it is essential to know the night.

Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus, translation by Justin O’Brien  (via lerenarddenuit)

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“i have realized that you can close yourself off to life if you put walls up, but it’s a difficult thing. you can’t see over, people can’t see in, and you also can’t see out. so i’ve gotten quite comfortable with just being unafraid. i keep saying the same thing: it’s not about being fearless but really just embracing the fears and using them.”

“i have realized that you can close yourself off to life if you put walls up, but it’s a difficult thing. you can’t see over, people can’t see in, and you also can’t see out. so i’ve gotten quite comfortable with just being unafraid. i keep saying the same thing: it’s not about being fearless but really just embracing the fears and using them.”

(Source: devones, via housetargeryen)

To hold our tongues when everyone is gossiping, to smile without hostility at people and institutions, to compensate for the shortage of love in the world with more love in small, private matters; to be more faithful in our work, to show greater patience, to forgo the cheap revenge obtainable from mockery and criticism: all these are things we can do. ”
― Hermann Hesse