“What a terrible thing it is to wound someone you really care for and to do it so unconsciously.”
— Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood (via anditslove)
May 2012
10 posts
“Most importantly, if you can at all avoid it, don’t be normal. Strive, burn and do everything you can to avoid being the industry standard. Even the highest industry standard. Be greater than anything anyone else has ever dreamed of you. Don’t settle for pats on the back, salary increases, a nod-and-a-smile. Instead, rage against the tepidness of the mundane with every fiber of whatever makes you, you. Change this place.”
—I Wrote This For You: The Defiance Of The Different (via kari-shma)
“The world is changed by examples, not by opinions.”
—Paulo Coelho (via kari-shma)
“That’s what people do who love you. They put their arms around you and love you when you’re not so lovable.”
—The Fortunes of Indigo Skye by Deb Caletti (via anditslove)