Leila. 24 years young.
Egyptian/Polish. Aspiring model & interior decorator. Single. A fan of champagne, Queen, leopard print, interior design & being healthy. In love with New York City. I speak fluently in movie quotes. This tumblr contains what makes me happy/inspires me/etc + events that need to be acknowledged so we can make this world a better place.
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
You have been told that real life is not like college and you have been correctly informed. Real life is more like high school.
Meryl Streep (via nancylicious)
Exactly.
(Source: lawyerupasshole)
When you leave your ipod playing after you take your headphones out, you forget about it
and you keep hearing distant music and you’re like
A person does not have to be behind bars to be a prisoner. People can be prisoners of their own concepts and ideas. They can be slaves to their own selves.
Maharaji (via heartmindspirit)
(Source: heartmindawakening)
This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well. Take the power to love what you want in life and love it honestly. Take the power to walk in the forest and be a part of nature. Take the power to control your own life. No one else can do it for you. Take the power to make your life happy.
Susan Polis Schutz (via justbesplendid)
Fear of the unknown. They are afraid of new ideas. They are loaded with prejudices, not based upon anything in reality, but based on… if something is new, I reject it immediately because it’s frightening to me. What they do instead is just stay with the familiar. You know, to me, the most beautiful things in all the universe, are the most mysterious.
I believe that we are solely responsible for our choices, and we have to accept the consequences of every deed, word, and thought throughout our lifetime.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, & you believe you are living. Then you read a book, or you take a trip, & you discover that you are not living, that you are hibernating. The symptoms of hibernating are easily detectable: first, restlessness. The second symptom (when hibernating becomes dangerous & might degenerate into death): absence of pleasure. That is all. It appears like an innocuous illness. Monotony, boredom, death. Millions live like this (or die like this) without knowing it. They work in offices. They drive a car. They picnic with their families. They raise children. & then some shock treatment takes place, a person, a book, a song, & it awakens them & saves them from death.
Anais Nin
I cannot believe that the purpose of life is to be happy. I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be compassionate. It is, above all to matter, to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all.
Leo Rosten
People don’t want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messes cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown.
Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk (via seagoat)
