an extroverted introvert

Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open. Natalie Goldberg (via amandaonwriting)

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I think it’s very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person. Oscar Wilde  (via jenngofett)

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To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the making of bread. James Baldwin (forever)

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The trees are the ones that can show us the best way to live on the planet:
Deep roots into the ground, a straight trunk to channel all the light from the sun towards the earth… Providing oxygen for everything around them, so that all beings can live. Matias De Stefano (via elige)

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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you - gently, with love, and hand your life back to you. Tennessee Williams  (via phalene)

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We walk alone through this world, but if we’re lucky, we have a moment of belonging to something, to someone, that sustains us through a lifetime of loneliness. Paullina Simons  (via infiniteroses)

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Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.  Victor Hugo (via danseurs)

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I am completely a loner. In my head I want to feel I can be anywhere. There is a sort of recklessness that being a loner allows me. Arundhati Roy  (via basava)

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