"Some of us give up on life with only a resigned sigh. Others fight a little, then lose hope. Still others—and I’m one of those—never give up. We fight and fight and fight. We fight no matter the cost of battle, the losses we take, the improbability of success. We fight to the very end. It’s not a question of courage. It’s something constitutional, an inability to let go. It may be nothing more than life-hungry stupidity."
(Yann Martel, Life of Pi)
(Yann Martel, Life of Pi)
❝Don’t aim at success — the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one’s dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one’s surrender to a person other than oneself. Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it. I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in the long run—in the long run, I say!—success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think of it.❞
— Viktor Frankl (via explore-blog)
❝You get a little moody sometimes but I think that’s because you like to read. People that like to read are always a little fucked up.❞
— Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides (via gildings)
❝Be yourself. You’re okay.❞
— Yohji Yamamoto (via killheji)
(出典： bodyfluids)
❝When something bothered me, I didn’t talk with anyone about it. I thought it over all by myself, came to a conclusion, and took action alone. Not that I really felt lonely. I thought that’s just the way things are. Human beings, in the final analysis, have to survive on their own.❞
— Haruki Murakami (村上 春樹), “Sputnik Sweetheart” (via xu-an)
