Promise

Doing what he loves, where he loves to be.

John by Hurley’s instagram.

Oscar Wilde said that if you know what you want to be, then you inevitably become it - that is your punishment, but if you never know, then you can be anything. There is a truth to that. We are not nouns, we are verbs. I am not a thing - an actor, a writer - I am a person who does things - I write, I act - and I never know what I am going to do next. I think you can be imprisoned if you think of yourself as a noun.

Stephen Fry (via wordsnquotes)

Truth!! Just be you, the constantly changing you!

Learning to love yourself is a lesson no one ever taught us. They didn’t tell us how to deal with all the ugly scars that only we can see and how to close our minds to the wicked whispers that make us wish we could shed our skin like a snake, just to feel renewed for a few moments. But inside, trapping on your ribcage, is a heart that loves you so immeasurably. And little by little, heartbeat by heartbeat, it’s asking you to love yourself. They only taught us to be deaf to this plea. You won’t break your own heart now, would you?

venomousvelvet  (via wordsnquotes)

Books are lovely

Librarian, guardian of the words / Bibliotecario, guardian de las palabras (ilustración de Christelle le Guen)

You may shoot me with your words, You may cut me with your eyes, You may kill me with your hatefulness, But still, like air, I’ll rise.

Maya Angelou, “Still I Rise” (via wordsnquotes)

#mayaangelou #rise

#truth #life

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I have been here and walked along the river. Beautiful city!!

Bern, Switzerland (by Nomadic Vision Photography)

Though I may seem at times somewhat distant from you, through the gray mist of my own moods, I am never far; my thoughts always circle around you.

Friedrich Nietzsche (via wordsnquotes)

You are on my mind

You just do it. You force yourself to get up. You force yourself to put one foot before the other, and God damn it, you refuse to let it get to you. You fight. You cry. You curse. Then you go about the business of living. That’s how I’ve done it. There’s no other way.

Elizabeth Taylor  (via wordsnquotes)

Truth

Can we just shout a big "THANK YOU!" and an "AMEN"! to this fine specimen.

Self-portrait #8 by Leonard Page