Boy did I need this reminder
“Just for the record darling, not all positive change feels positive in the beginning.”
— S.C. Lourie
“I’m doing drugs just to maintain - part of the reason that I can handle this damn pain”
— XXXTENTACION x KiD TRUNKS | 777
And I wonder, when I sing along with you... if everything could ever feel this real forever... if anything could ever be this good again...
Foo Fighters' "Everlong" (1997)
Value yourself. The only people who appreciate a doormat are people with dirty shoes.
Leo Buscaglia
Isabel Allende, The House of the Spirits
Wait for someone who bumps mouths clumsily with yours cos they’re too busy smiling to kiss you properly. Yeah. Wait for that.
Azra Tabassum
"I've tried getting better, did all of the twelve steps / Whoever would'a thought? Whoever could've guessed? / The harder that I chase it, the further that it gets"
-Grandson, Riptide
“I like to listen. I have learnt a lot from listening carefully. Most people never listen.”
— Unknown
when kafka said ‘you wouldn’t believe the kind of person I could become if you wanted it’ and when brontë said ‘if you ever looked at me with what I know is in you, I would be your slave’ and when Sartre said ‘if I’ve got to suffer it may as well be at your hands’
“If you find someone who makes you smile, who checks up on you often to see if you’re okay. Who watches out or you and wants the best for you. Who loves and respects you. Don’t let them go. People like that are hard to find.”
— Franz Kafka
Don't sabotage your future peace because familiar chaos is comfortable.