somethin' like gypsy spirit

prettystuff:

“Sister, there are people who went to sleep all over the world last night, poor and rich and white and black, but they will never wake again. Sister, those who expected to rise did not, their beds became their cooling boards, and their blankets became their winding sheets. And those dead folks would give anything, anything at all for just five minutes of this weather or ten minutes of that plowing that person was grumbling about. So you watch yourself about complaining, Sister. What you’re supposed to do when you don’t like a thing is change it. If you can’t change it, change the way you think about it. Don’t complain.”
— Maya Angelou

bulgakeov:

“My solitude doesn’t depend on the presence or absence of people; on the contrary, I hate who steals my solitude without, in exchange, offering me true company.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

poemswords:

“I’ve been taught that love is beautiful and kind, but it isn’t like that at all. It is beautiful, but it’s a terrible beauty, a ruthless one, and you fall—you fall, and the thing is you want to. You don’t care what’s coming, you just want who your heart beats for.”

— Elizabeth Scott, The Unwritten Rule
(via books-n-quotes)

thegoodvybe:

“Once, there was a girl who vowed she would save everyone in the world, but forgot herself.”

— Holly Black, The Darkest Part of the Forest
(via thegoodvybe)

enchantedafterall:

“I want someone to fight for me. Just once, I want someone to be afraid of losing me, not just say that they don’t want to lose me. I want them to mean it. I want them to genuinely be afraid to lose me. You have those people that just say they never want to lose you, but then one day they just decide to leave. I want someone to fight for me. When I’m about to leave, they pull me back. Tell me what they love about me. Tell me how much they love me. Tell me what I mean to them. Show me how much they don’t want to lose me. Words mean nothing. I want them to prove to me everything that they’ll ever say to me. You say you love me, well show me that you do. You say you care about me, prove it. You say you don’t want to lose me, well show me.”

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