If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
— Zora Neale Hurston (via grrrlstudies)
Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery. And of course stability isn’t nearly so spectacular as instability. And being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune, none of the picturesqueness of a struggle with temptation, or a fatal overthrow by passion or doubt. Happiness is never grand.
— Aldous Huxley, Brave New World (via plasmoids)
Our attitude towards life determines life’s attitude towards us.
— John N. Mitchell (via smallcupoflight)
Watch your thoughts, for they become words.
Watch your words, for they become actions.
Watch your actions, for they become habits.
Watch your habits, for they become character.
And watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.
— The Iron Lady (via quote-book)
