We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit. - E.E. Cummings (via feellng)

Just because you took longer than others doesn’t mean you failed. - (via hefuckin)

She was a storehouse of self-deceptions, but she was also perspicacious. Something in her chilled him; her suspiciousness, her grudges, her deceitfulness, the hostile solitude in which she took refuge. But perhaps if he had loved her more, she would have become more open, more expansive, more agreeable. It was a vicious circle: love can’t be served up to order, nor can confidence. Neither one could come first. - Simone de Beauvoir, from The Mandarins (via violentwavesofemotion)