c'est.la.vie

All the hardest, coldest people you meet were once as soft as water. And that’s the tragedy of living.

—Iain S. Thomas, I Wrote This For You (via hrsvt)

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Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life—think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.

—Swami Vivekananda (via simply-quotes)

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So many old and lovely things are stored in the world’s attic because we don’t want them around us and we don’t dare throw them out.

—John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent (via dearscience)

You can plan for things, work towards them for years, and yet they never materialize. Or you can just happen to be in the right place at the right moment, and everything falls into place.

—John Ajvide Lindqvist, Little Star (via simply-quotes)

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Unrequited love does not die; it’s only beaten down to a secret place where it hides, curled and wounded. For some unfortunates, it turns bitter and mean, and those who come after pay the price for the hurt done by the one who came before.

—Elle Newmark, The Book of Unholy Mischief (via simply-quotes)

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