Mutual caring relationships require kindness and patience, tolerance, optimism, joy in the other’s achievements, confidence in oneself, and the ability to give without undue thought of gain.
Fred Rogers (The World According to Mister Rogers)(Source: goodreads.com)
Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.
Mother Teresa (via definitelydope)(Source: goodreads.com)
You know when sometimes you meet someone so beautiful and then you actually talk to them and five minutes later they’re as dull as a brick? Then there’s other people, when you meet them you think, “Not bad. They’re okay.” And then you get to know them and… and their face just sort of becomes them. Like their personality’s written all over it. And they just turn into something so beautiful. - Amy Pond (Dr. Who)
(via vipnormajean)
You can talk with someone for years, everyday, and still, it won’t mean as much as what you can have when you sit in front of someone, not saying a word, yet you feel that person with your heart, you feel like you have known the person for forever…. connections are made with the heart, not the tongue.
C. JoyBell C. (via definitelydope)(Source: goodreads.com)
I really don’t care that much about “Beauties.” What I really like are Talkers. To me, good talkers are beautiful because good talk is what I love. The word itself shows why I like Talkers better than Beauties, why I tape more than I film. It’s not “talkies.” Talkers are doing something. Beauties are being something. Which isn’t necessarily bad, it’s just that I don’t know what it is they’re being. It’s more fun to be with people who are doing things.
Andy Warhol
(via n0tion)
(Source: made-ofstone)
Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there’s no room for the present at all.
Brideshead Revisited (via conqueredrome)
A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying up late reading them.
Lemony Snicket (Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can’t Avoid)(Source: goodreads.com)
Because I don’t live in either my past or my future. I’m interested only in the present. If you can concentrate always on the present, you’ll be a happy man. You’ll see that there is life in the desert, that there are stars in the heavens, and that tribesmen fight because they are part of the human race. Life will be a party for you, a grand festival, because life is the moment we’re living right now
The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho (via jeansandsneakers)(Source: quote-book)
