Virginia Woolf ― Orlando: A Biography

“Vanity is the fear of appearing original.”

—Daybreak, §365 (excerpt).

“Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.”

— Mother Teresa

Alexander Blok, translated by Robert Chandler, from a poem titled "She Came Out in the Frost,"

Virginia Woolf ― The Years

Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

Adonis, from Selected Poems; “This Is My Name” (tr. Khaled Mattawa)

“I think there is pressure on people to turn every negative into a positive, but we should be allowed to say, ‘I went through something really strange and awful and it has altered me forever.’”

— Marian Keyes (via herpaperweight)

T. S. Eliot — The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

“If you want to awaken all of humanity, then awaken all of yourself. If you want to eliminate the suffering in the world, then eliminate all that is dark and negative in yourself. Truly, the greatest gift you have to give is that of your own self-transformation.”

— Lao Tzu  (via quotemadness)