We are all ordinary. We are all boring. We are all spectacular. We are all shy. We are all bold. We are all heroes. We are all helpless. It just depends on the day.
— Brad Meltzer (via flentes)
The mark of the immature man is that he want to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he want to live humbly for one.
— J.D. Salinger (The Catcher in the Rye)
What really knocks me out is a book that, when you’re all done reading it, you wish that the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it.
— J.D. Salinger (The Catcher in the Rye)
Among other things you’ll find that you’re not the first person who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior.
— J.D. Salinger (The Catcher in the Rye)
Life is not the way it’s supposed to be. It’s the way it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference.
— Virginia Satir (via onlinecounsellingcollege)
I want to go places and see people. I want my mind to grow. I want to live where things happen on a big scale.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Ice Palace (via concocted)
We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost.
— Ray Bradbury (via angusandjuliastoned)
