EL VUELO DE LA CALANDRIA

“I’m not the silly romantic you think. I don’t want the heavens or the shooting stars. I don’t want gemstones or gold. I have those things already. I want…a steady hand. A kind soul. I want to fall asleep, and wake, knowing my heart is safe. I want to love, and be loved.”— Shana Abé

“We all do things we desperately wish we could undo. Those regrets just become part of who we are, along with everything else. To spend time trying to change that, well, it’s like chasing clouds.”— Libba Bray

“The loneliness you feel with another person, the wrong person, is the loneliest of all.”

— Deb Caletti

“You can never really know someone completely. That’s why it’s the most terrifying thing in the world, really—taking someone on faith, hoping they’ll take you on faith too. It’s such a precarious balance, It’s a wonder we do it at all.”— Libba Bray

“Life is short. Too short to waste a single second with anyone who doesn’t appreciate and value you.”— Sarah Dessen

“She must find a boat and sail in it. No guarantee of shore. Only a conviction that what she wanted could exist, if she dared to find it.”— Jeanette Winterson

“What you have lost will not be returned to you; it always be lost. You’re left with only your scars to mark the void. All you can choose to do is go on, or not. But if you go on, it’s knowing you carry your scars with you.”— Charles Frazier

“Don’t let what you can’t do interfere with what you can do.”— Paulo Coelho

“Some changes look negative on the surface but you will soon realize that space is being created in your life for something new to emerge.”— Eckhart Tolle

“Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us-and those around us - more effectively. Look for the learning.”— Louisa May Alcott

“My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.”

— Jack Kerouac

“The only power you have is the power of your decisions. Use it.”— Paulo Coelho

"It’s what you do that makes your soul.”— Barbara Kingsolver

“What a terrible mistake to let go of something wonderful for something real.”— Miranda July

— Miranda July

“Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on.”— Henry Rollins

"What was the point in crying when there was no one there to comfort you? And what was worse, when you couldn’t even comfort yourself?”— Cassandra Clare

“Don’t settle for someone who doesn’t give you things to say. Forever is a long time to make small talk.”— The Silence Goes For Milles

“That’s what it feels like when you fall from great heights. That’s what it feels like when your heart grows back. That’s what it feels like when you don’t want to feel. But this, this is just me.”

— The Fear Of Floating Away

“A true friend knows your weaknesses but shows you your strengths; feels your fears but fortifies your faith; sees your anxieties but frees your spirit; recognizes your disabilities but emphasizes your possibilities.”

— i don't know

William Arthur Ward

“If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.”— Anna Quindlen

“The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you.”— Lost in Translation

“The truth is, life is rarely exactly the way we want it to be, and other people often don’t act as we would like them to. Moment to moment, there are aspects of life that we like and others that we don’t. There are always going to be people who disagree with you, people who do things differently, and things that don’t work out. If you fight against the principle of life, you’ll spend most of your life fighting battles.”— Richard Carlson

“Stop talking about love. Every asshole in the world says he loves somebody. It means nothing. It still doesn’t mean anything. What you feel only matters to you. It’s what you do to the people you say you love, that’s what matters. It’s the only thing that counts.”— The last kiss

“If you think I can tell you what’s going on inside my heart, you know even less about it than you think.”— The Mist Descends

“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”— Mahatma Gandhi

"Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.”— Jim Morrison

“Sometimes it is not enough to do our best; we must do what is required.”— Winston Churchill

“Being challenged in life is inevitable, being defeated is optional.”— Roger Crawford

“I wanted a perfect ending. Now I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next.”— Gilda Radner

“You can’t choose what stays and what fades away.”— Florence + the Machine

“Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled. You’ve got to relax, let it happen at times, and at others move forward with it.”— Ray Bradbury

“Don’t waste your heart.”— The Strokes

“That is all I want in life: for this pain to seem purposeful.”— Elizabeth Wurtzel

“You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.” — Jonathan Safran Foer

“There’s a folder of pictures I can’t open.
There’s so many songs that don’t sound the same.
There’s a number I can’t dial and a message I can’t send.
There’s a restaurant I can’t eat at, not with any friends.
There’s words and names I can only say in my head.
There’s a pair of eyes that belong to you, that I can never look into again.”
—The Missing Machine

“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson