Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
Mark Twain (via extravaganja-life)

When you start to really know someone, all his physical characteristics start to disappear. You begin to dwell in his energy, recognize the scent of his skin. You see only the essence of the person,not the shell. That’s why you can’t fall in love with beauty. You can lust after it, be infatuated by it, want to own it. You can love it with your eyes and body but not your heart. And that’s why, when you really connect with a person’s inner self, any physical imperfections disappear, become irrelevant.
Lisa Unger, Beautiful Lies (via danseurs)

What a terrible thing it is to wound someone you really care for - and to do it so unconsciously.
Norwegian Wood, Haruki Murakami  (via seabois)

Nothing haunts us like the things we don’t say.
Mitch Albom, Have a Little Faith: The Story of a Last Request (via larmoyante)

If only she could be so oblivious again, to feel such love without knowing it, mistaking it for laughter.
Markus Zusak, The Book Thief (via vanished)

A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.
Ian McEwan, Atonement (via larmoyante)