"Take a risk. Go for something that feels uncomfortable. Be prepared to fail, because that courage will open so many parts of you later on."
- hugh jackman.

· hugh jackman · quote · risk · courage · inspiration 

"Be strong, trust yourself, love yourself, conquer your fears. Just go after what you want. And act fast, because life just isn’t that long."
- the office.

· the office · quote 
· nina leen · 1940s · circus · children · vintage · black and white · photography 

"Faith is not a dirty word. And hope is not for fools. I used to really make fun of optimists. But if all we have are negative world views, we’re in trouble."
- robert downey, jr.

· robert downey jr · faith · hope · optimism · quote 
· concept art · tall ships · ships · water · ocean · art · illustration · les miserables · karl simon 

The life of a writer is absolute hell. 

Two hours of writing fiction leaves this particular writer absolutely drained. For those two hours he has been miles away, he has been somewhere else, in a different place with totally different people, and the effort of swimming back into normal surroundings is very great. It is almost a shock. The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it. It happens to be a fact that nearly every writer of fiction in the world drinks more whiskey than is good for him. He does it to give himself faith, hope, and courage. A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master except his own soul, and that, I am sure, is why he does it.

· roald dahl · boy · 1984 · literature · excerpt · quote · writing · writers 
· london · england · big ben · photograph · city 

"For all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: it might have been."
- john greenleaf whittier.

hindikitty:

Amelie has no boyfriend. She’s tried once or twice, but the results were a let down. Instead, she cultivates a taste for small pleasures: dipping her hand into sacks of grain, cracking creme brulee with a teaspoon, and skipping stones at St. Martin’s canal.

—Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Le Fabuleux destin d’Amélie Poulain

· the hobbit · galadriel · gandalf · courage · acts of kindness · love · quote