If you don’t have someone to say “Happy Valentine’s Day” , don’t worry; real life does not take place in Disneyworld.

— Paulo Coelho

We tend to forget that happiness doesn’t come as a result of getting something we don’t have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.

— Frederick Koenig (via kari-shma)

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For after all, the best thing one can do when it is raining is let it rain.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (via kari-shma)

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This is why you should never, ever get your hopes up. This is why you should see the glass as half empty. So when the whole thing spills, you aren’t as devastated.

— Emily Giffin, Something Borrowed (via justanothermugglegirl)

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He looked at her as a man looks at a faded flower he has gathered, with difficulty recognizing in it the beauty for which he picked and ruined it.

— Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina (via colormerealist)

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I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it — to be fed so much love I couldn’t take any more. Just once.

— Haruki Murakami (Norwegian Wood)

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It seems to me the only thing that matters, the only thing that’s even real, is the here and now. And some stuff is important and some stuff isn’t, and I guess time is the only thing that can sort out which is which. That just means, the more we live in the present, the more we store up all the memories, good and bad, the more we have to hold onto once people, places, and things are gone. Because believe me, I speak from experience when I say things can change forever with, like, no warning. So no matter how much you love something or no matter how much you take it for granted, nothing lasts forever. So for now, all we can do is hang on and wait and see and hope…for the future.

—  Claudia Salinger: Party Of Five (via jackiecoffin)

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