The only reason people do not know much is because they do not care to know. They are incurious. Incuriosity is the oddest and most foolish failing there is.

Stephen Fry

Growing old is compulsory, growing up is optional.

Bob Monkhouse (via samaralex)

Anyone can love a rose, but it takes a great deal to love a leaf. It’s ordinary to love the beautiful, but it’s beautiful to love the ordinary.

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Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you allows your soul room to grow. Never expect to outgrow loneliness. Never hope to find people who will understand you, someone to fill that space. An intelligent, sensitive person is the exception, the very great exception. If you expect to find people who will understand you, you will grow murderous with disappointment. The best you’ll ever do is to understand yourself, know what it is that you want.

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I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Dante in the street. Spotted yesterday. Photo © vanessa waterhouse Please do not remove credit.

Dante in the street.

Spotted yesterday.

Photo © vanessa waterhouse

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Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. “Pooh!” he whispered. “Yes, Piglet?” “Nothing,” said Piglet, taking Pooh’s paw. “I just wanted to be sure of you.

A.A. Milne (via hoodoothatvoodoo)

The wonderful thing about therapy is that it makes you realize you have every right to be anxious about being alive.

Dudley Moore