❝Yet everyone tries to look more forbidding than he really is, as though afraid it would be an insult to his feelings if they were displayed too soon.❞
Fyodor Dostoyevsky , White Nights (via tra-ff-ic)
❝Obsession is the single most wasteful human activity, because with an obsession you keep coming back and back and back to the same question and never get an answer.❞
Norman Mailer (via libraryland)
❝Keep away from people who belittle your ambitions. Small people do that, but the great people are the ones who make you feel that you too, can be great.❞
Mark Twain (via handsomeandsociallyawkward)