sometimes i think adulthood just means constantly searching for and chasing that joy you so effortlessly felt during your childhood
why dont you try making up a delusion or private world and go live in it and maybe you’ll calm down
Taylor Jenkins Reid, Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Lucy Luckovich - Sisters, 2023
“How do I stop being scared of-” You do it scared. The courage arrives WITH the action, not before it. Don’t wait to feel confident before you act because the key to confidence is usually doing the thing while still scared as fuck
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights
i will try to make this life as beautiful as i can no matter what happens
“All endings are also beginnings. We just don’t know it at the time.”— Mitch Albom
gentle reminder: nothing in this world has the power to take away your worth. not what’s been done to you, not the mistakes you’ve made, not the things you’ve failed to do, not the assertions other people make. you are breathing. you are alive. you are a person. nothing else is needed to give you value.
It’s cool. Take a shower. Open the windows to let in fresh air even if it’s cold out. Listen to the wind rustling the leaves & the people walking and chatting. Clean something random to see that you can make a difference through action. This too shall pass
Heather Havrilesky (Ask Polly) | Mary Oliver
reading books like the secret history is always such a wild ride, because i’m fully aware that it’s a criticism of aesthetic hedonism and the elitism of academia, and then i’ll read a line like “ if we are strong enough in our souls we can rip away the veil and look at that naked, terrible beauty right in the face; let God consume us, devour us, unstring our bones. then spit us out reborn” and i go absolutely fucking feral.






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