ʕ ꈍᴥꈍʔ 🫶🏼

You are the first morning thought, the last evening sigh, and every goddamn thing in between.

Don’t set yourself on fire to keep others warm.

Close some doors. Not because of pride, incapacity or arrogance, but simply because they no longer lead somewhere. - ***Paulo Coehlo***

I live in my head. sometimes I leave my body for days; sometimes my body is only a suitcase for my heart. Donte Collins, Which is to say

I hope one day, you choke on all the shit you talk. Beenzino

Don’t mistake my kindness for weakness. I’ll choke you with the same hand I fed you with.

Sometimes I remind myself that I almost skipped the party, that I almost went to a different college, that the whim of a minute could have changed everything and everyone. Our lives, so settled, so specific, are built on happenstance. Anna Quindlen, Every Last One

Her soul was too deep to explore by those who always swam in the shallow end.

Once you get to know me, I’m not really that nice. Snejana Onopka

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do. Andrew Carnegie

I’m so fucking sick of saying I’m sorry when I’m the one collapsed on the ground.

Where exactly do you put your hands on somebody who hurts everywhere? Charles D’Ambrosio, The Dead Fish Museum: Stories

…And please remember that you were beautiful before he told you that you were.

Everything I’ve ever let go of has claw marks on it. David Foster Wallace

I think it’s important to realize you can miss something, but not want it back - ***Paulo Coelho***

Knowing when to leave is so important.
 The party, the job, the relationship.

Nature does not hurry, yet all things are accomplished. The tighter we grasp the sand, the more sand falls through the hand.

i’m just a bitch with bad posture and an irregular sleeping schedule 

I don’t think people understand how stressful it is to explain what’s going on in your head when you don’t even understand it yourself.

It is both a burden and a blessing, to feel everything as deeply as I do. Della Hicks-Wilson

“No tree can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.”  —Carl Jung

Sometimes your heart needs more time to accept what your mind already knows.

Almost. It’s a big word for me. I feel it everywhere. Almost home. Almost happy. Almost changed. Almost, but not quite. Not yet. Soon, maybe. Joan Bauer

If it’s meant for me, I will have it. If not, I’m ready to receive something even better. 

Never trust your tongue when your heart is bitter. Samuel J. Hurwitt

The longer I live, the more deeply I learn that love — whether we call it friendship or family or romance — is the work of mirroring and magnifying each other’s light.


— James Baldwin, Nothing Personal

“If you can’t handle her fire, let someone else enjoy the flames.”

There's no such thing as work-life balance. It's all just life.

“Accept people as they are, but place them where they belong”

I knew I matured when I realized every situation doesn’t need a reaction. Sometimes you just have to leave people to continue to do the lame shit that they do.

Some things take time. Some things take years before you see how it comes together. But the more you can remember the wholeness of it all, the more you will find that despite your unknowing, the grass, the trees, and the creatures throughout this vast landscape are still growing, and somehow, through it all, it all works together, and you too, are part of that. and it’s okay if it takes time to see this. Wisdom is gathered over years, not minutes. Trust in slowness. Trust in thoroughness. - Morgan Harper Nichols

My problem was that no one ever needed me as much as I needed them

That’s what we all do: endlessly take the long way around. Haruki Murakami - Yesterday

When the end arrives, it’s really the beginning.

I close my eyes, but I can’t fall asleep, my body dying for the rest while my mind’s wide awake Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

One day I woke up and we no longer spoke the same language. I haven’t heard from you since. Hishaam Siddiqi, Where did you go?