May 2013
14 posts
“Nobody will protect you from your suffering. You can’t cry it away or eat it...”
– Cheryl Strayed (via creatingaquietmind)
“This is why it hurts the way it hurts. You have too many words in your head....”
– Iain Thomas (via the-healing-nest)
“But, in certain cases, carrying on, merely continuing, is superhuman.”
– Albert Camus, “The Fall” (via mirroir)
“Not everything made you stronger. It was possible to survive, yet still be...”
– Scott Westerfeld (via thatkindofwoman)
I am sad. Sad that nothing, and I mean nothing, goes the way I think it will or should. I am sad that every single moment of every single day is work. I am sad that no one told me it would be this hard. I am sad that I do most things alone. I am sad that even when I’m with people I usually feel alone. I am sad that I’m sad for no apparent reason. I’m sad that I have so many...
“She smiled, but she might have been sad.”
– Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out (via emptieds)
“I do not believe that things will turn out well; but the idea that they...”
– Adorno, Towards a New Manifesto (via mirrorlywe)
“I have this strange feeling that I’m not myself anymore. It’s hard to put into...”
– Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart (via web-girl)
Some moments I feel closer to myself than I’ve ever been. Other moments I couldn’t be further away.
April 2013
24 posts
“It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated (via larmoyante)
I chant mantras to protect myself against negative and hurtful influences. Does that include my own mind?
“The right man will love all the things about you that the wrong man was...”
– Unknown (via cleamour)
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March 2013
14 posts
“I used to think that when I got older, the world would make so much more sense....”
– Rachel Cohn (via inmyskin)
Exactly
“Most people think happiness is about gaining something, but it’s not. It’s all...”
– Carolyn Crane (via outcamethesun)
I give up. I’m not quitting, but I give up. No more plans or expectations or even hopes. I’ll deal with what is exactly in front of me and no more. I’m done. I’m exhausted and depleted and done. I’m tired of trying and hoping and waiting and pushing only to have “the universe” slap me down over and over again. My faith is paper thin at this point. But...
I give up. I’m not quitting, but I give up.
“Not everyone is okay with living like an open wound. But the thing about open...”
– Warsan Shire (via wethinkwedream)
“Some people fall apart when they get hurt. Puddle into apathy and despair and...”
– Karen Marie Moning, Iced (via petrichour)
I don’t care. I don’t want to do it anymore.
“Sometimes I breathe you in and I know you know.”
– Tori Amos (via kari-shma)
I do know.
1 tag
“Everything we do is infused with the energy with which we do it. If we’re...”
– Marianne Williamson (via unconditionedconsciousness) 