"If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely."

- Roald Dahl

(Source: larmoyante)

we’re all bent (not broken) by other people, and maybe more so by ourselves. but it’s these odd angles that make everything so much more interesting; that are a sign of our passing through certain experiences and meeting certain persons, of learning more about ourselves and growing, slowly, towards some indiscernible future where we find ourselves, and are finally content.

"The best thing, though, in that museum was that everything always stayed right where it was. Nobody’d move. You could go there a hundred times, and that Eskimo would still be just finished catching those two fish, the birds would still be on their way south, the deers would still be drinking out of that water hole, with their pretty antlers and their pretty, skinny legs, and that squaw with the naked bosom would still be weaving that same blanket. Nobody’d be different. The only thing that would be different would be you."

- Catcher in the Rye, J. D. Salinger