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The magic of written and spoken things are undeniable.

name: Dia
age: 14
sign: Capricorn
birthday: Dec 22
gender: Female

"Don’t let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it.The time will pass anyway;we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.."


— Earl Nightingale.

"What was this compulsive need to be lovable? They both had it, were driven by it, bound by it. They would even sacrifice each other for the sake of it. But she sensed they were afflicted differently. He wanted to preserve his worthiness in the eyes of other people. It was because of losing his parents; it had to be. Parents were the only ones obligated to love you; from the rest of the world you had to earn it. And what about her? Whose love did she so compulsively doubt? She knew without thinking. From her earliest memory she had perceived the chasm between how she looked and how she felt. She knew whose love she doubted. It wasn’t her parents’ and it wasn’t her friends’. It was her own." 


— Ann Brashares (via troubled)

"Never neglect the little things. Never skimp on that extra effort, that additional few minutes, that soft word of praise or thanks, that delivery of the very best that you can do. It does not matter what others think, it is of prime importance, however, what you think about you. You can never do your best, which should always be your trademark, if you are cutting corners and shirking responsibilities. You are special. Act it. Never neglect the little things." 


— Og Mandino (via creatingaquietmind)

"I have no right to say or do anything that diminishes a man in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him but what he thinks of himself. Hurting a man in his dignity is a crime." 


— ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (via thesearepeopleyouknow)

"Because everything requires energy. We must put effort and energy into anything we wish to change." 


— Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus  (via maryland-cherry)

"You are mistress of the fixed smile that remains perfectly in place despite war, death, or famine." 


—

Sagittarius

(via littlesuccubus)


"There are many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream – whatever that dream might be." 


— Pearl S. Buck (via troubled)

"I believe that words uttered in passion contain a greater living truth than do those words which express thoughts rationally conceived. It is blood that moves the body. Words are not meant to stir the air only: they are capable of moving greater things." 


—

Natsume Sōseki

via hollyhocksandtulips - banklikelindsey (via frenchtwist)


"Raindrops are like fairy whispers." 


— Author Unknown (via lavendertree)