The unbearable lightness of being (1988)
im a grown woman i dont feel the childish need for acceptance that i craved in my youth anymore. shaking and gripping the sink
reminders for a bad day:
- your worth is not just defined by how productive you are.
- you don't have to prove anything to anyone.
- you did your best, let it go.
- you deserve to be treated kindly.
- you deserve someone to be patient with you.
- it's okay, we all make mistakes.
- you can always choose to do things differently.
- not every day is going to be the same.
“There’s a corner of my heart that is yours. And I don’t mean for now, or until I’ve found somebody else, I mean forever. I mean to say that whether I fall in love a thousand times over or once or never again, there’ll always be a small quiet place in my heart that belongs only to you.”
— Beau Taplin
“I am working out the vocabulary of my silence.”
— Muriel Rukeyser, from “The Speed of Darkness,” Out of Silence: Selected Poems (TriQuarterly Books, 1992) (via memoryslandscape)
"It's hard not to talk about something that's constantly on your mind."
Through a Glass Darkly (1961), Ingmar Bergman
The eyes of various animals By: Unknown photographer From: Disney's Wonderful World of Knowledge 1971
i think names are such a delicate thing and we dont say each other's names enough bc why else does it strike such a chord in me when ppl say my name as if i actually exist
— Anaïs Nin, from a diary entry featured in Mirages: The Unexpurgated Diary; 1939-1947.
