the silent years

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring. Marilyn Monroe

‎When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us. Alexander Graham Bell

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Albert Einstein

Deep grief sometimes is almost like a specific location, a coordinate on a map of time. When you are standing in that forest of sorrow, you cannot imagine that you could ever find your way to a better place. But if someone can assure you that they themselves have stood in that same place, and now have moved on, sometimes this will bring hope. Elizabeth GIlbert 

What is healing, but a shift in perspective? Mark Doty (via 122782)

(Source: coloursplashedsoul, via quote-book)

People will tell you nothing matters, the whole world is about to end soon anyway. But those people are looking at life the wrong way. I mean, things don’t need to last forever to be perfect. Daydream Nation