Posts tagged words to live by.

And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.

F. Scott Fitzgerald, “The Great Gatsby.” (via theliterarydreamer)

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People will occasionally try to take advantage of your good nature and you need to be able to say “No” and “Fuck you” when necessary.

Michael Donovan (via beatboxgoesthump)

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Asking a question is embarrassing for a moment, but not asking is embarrassing for a lifetime.

It Takes A Muscle: Why You Should Woo Her ›

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Because she’ll iron your shirt for you when you’re ten minutes late for work. She’ll do your laundry, the pile that’s been accumulating when you first shoved it inside your closet, when she came over for the first time. Maybe she’ll even throw in your laundry with hers’. Because she’ll fix you a…

Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don’t be sorry.

Jack Kerouac (via marleyandme)

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Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life - and travel - leaves marks on you. Most of the time, those marks - on your body or on your heart - are beautiful. Often, though, they hurt.

Anthony Bourdain (via lerenarddenuit)

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Associate with people who are likely to improve you.

Seneca (via kari-shma)

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Trust not the heart of that man for whom old clothes are not venerable.

 Thomas Carlyle (via putthison)