Sometimes comfort doesn’t matter. When a shoe is freakin’ fabulous, it may be worth a subsequent day of misery. Soak in Epsom salts and take comfort in the fact that you’re better than everyone else.
Clinton Kelly
She held herself very straight, like Audrey Hepburn, whom all women idolize and men never think about.
Jeffrey Eugenides (via vouth)
The truth about Chanel’s bespoke femininity is that a woman can do or say whatever she wants as long as she’s wearing pearls.
Karen Karbo, The Gospel According to Coco Chanel: Life Lessons From The World’s Most Elegant Woman (via acockeyedoptimist)
But, – and there it is, – we want to live and move, though we have no reason to, because it happens that it is the nature of life to live and move, to want to live and move. If it were not for this, life would be dead. It is because of this life that is in you that you dream of your immortality.
Jack London (via thewildernessunderground)
Don’t ever be afraid to ask the question, ‘why?’, or as most small children do, to repeat that question as many times as you receive an unsatisfactory answer. Inquiring minds are essential to a healthy society, and to making an individual art out of living.
Viggo Mortensen
One thing about trains, It doesn’t matter where they’re going, what matters is deciding to get on.
Tom Hanks, From The Polar Express (via thinknorth)
She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary (via seabois)
Proper elocution and the right references notwithstanding, the best way to scale polite society is to look the part.
(via goodpeoplegofar)
Many people think they want things, but they don’t really have the strength, the discipline. They are weak. I believe that you get what you want if you want it badly enough.
Sophia Loren
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
Helen Keller (via crestfallenspirit)
We are turned round and round in this world, like yonder windlass, and Fate the handspike.
Melville (via galleyswag)
