anokarina: “To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face, and to know it for what it is ...at last, to love it for what it is, and then, to put it away...” ―Virginia Woolf ❄️🎄❄️
anokarina: “Our lives are, in reality, the sum total of our seemingly unimportant decisions and of our capacity to live by those decisions.” ―Gordon B. Hinckley ✈️ 🎄 ❄️ ⛄️ 🎅 🎉
anokarina: “All paths are present, always... and we can but choose among them.” ―Jacqueline Carey ✈️ 🌅
anokarina: “I hope you will go out and let stories, that is life, happen to you, and that you will work with these stories... water them with your blood and tears and your laughter till they bloom, till you yourself burst into bloom.” ―Clarissa Pinkola Estés
anokarina: “Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.” ―Epictetus ✈️
anokarina: “Life is an experimental journey undertaken involuntarily. It is a journey of the spirit through the material world and, since it is the spirit that travels, it is the spirit that is experienced.” ―Fernando Pessoa 🎄
anokarina: “What if it's the there / and not the here / that I long for?” ―Tyler Knott Gregson ❄️🎄❄️
anokarina: “The past can teach us, nurture us, but it cannot sustain us. The essence of life is change, and we must move ever forward or the soul will wither and die.” ―Susanna Kearsley, Mariana 🎄❄️⛄️🎅 🎉
anokarina: “I believe that I am not responsible for the meaningfulness or meaninglessness of life, but that I am responsible for what I do with the life I've got.” ―Hermann Hesse 🎨
anokarina: “I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or cheapen us or deprive us of our dignity but to mature and transfigure us.” ―Hermann Hesse 🏢
anokarina: THE FESTIVUS FOR THE REST OF US 💜 🎄 ❄️ ⛄️ 🎉
anokarina: “We enjoy not only the privilege of existence but also the singular ability to appreciate it and even, in a multitude of ways, to make it better. It is a talent we have only barely begun to grasp.” ―Bill Bryson 🏢
anokarina: “Suspect each moment, for it is a thief, tiptoeing away with more than it brings.” ―John Updike ⛄️ ❄️ 🎄
anokarina: “I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long.” ―Joseph Heller 🎨
anokarina: “To invent your own life's meaning is not easy, but it's still allowed, and I think you'll be happier for the trouble.” ―Bill Watterson
anokarina: THE FESTIVUS FOR THE REST OF US 💜🎄❄️⛄️ 🎉
anokarina: “There are no conditions to which a person cannot grow accustomed, especially if s/he sees that everyone around [them] lives in the same way.” ―Leo Tolstoy 🎨
anokarina: “If children were brought into the world by an act of pure reason alone, would the human race continue to exist?” ―Arthur Schopenhauer 👶 🐄 👶
anokarina: “To put meaning in one's life may end in madness, / But life without meaning is the torture / Of restlessness and vague desire-- / It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid.” ―Edgar Lee Masters ❄️ 🏢 ❄️
anokarina: THE FEATS OF STRENGTH ❄️🎄⛄️ 🎅 🎉
anokarina: “The future is never set in stone, remember that.” ―Erin Morgenstern 🏢
anokarina: “To me, history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me, it's an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or music is.” ―David McCullough 🏢
anokarina: 💩 DUMP TRUMP 👊
anokarina: “Down the rabbit hole, Alice.” 🐇🌈🍹🍸❄️⛄️ 🎉
anokarina: “I'm a fountain of blood. In the shape of a girl.” ―Björk 🌈 🔮🍸
anokarina: “Down the rabbit hole, Alice.” 🌈 🐇 🍹 🍸 ❄️ ⛄️ 🎉
anokarina: That time I politely requested a toy store that was “open” to *actually* open ―via IG, fb, email, voicemail & Twitter ―and then didn’t buy anything 😂 🔐 🚷 ❄️ 🎨 🎉
anokarina: “Real life is only ever just real life. Messy.” ―Patrick Ness 🍵
anokarina: “Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.” ―Charlotte Brontë 🍲
anokarina: “There are no second chances in life, except to feel remorse.” ―Carlos Ruiz Zafón 🍲