"Because the world is so full of death and horror, I try again and again to console my heart and pick the flowers that grow in the midst of Hell."

- Hermann Hesse (via likeafieldmouse)

"The more pain I train myself to stand, the more I learn. You are afraid of the pain now, Unk, but you won’t learn anything if you don’t invite the pain. And the more you learn, the gladder you will be to stand the pain."

- Kurt Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan (via monsterwithamask)

"I am sad just because of the beauty of it all. All is so fair and lovely outside of me, while my own heart is confused and baffled and full of vague unsatisfied longing."

- Leo Tolstoy, Family Happiness (via wereallprettybizarre)