“Sometimes you just need someone to tell you you’re not as terrible as you think you are.”
— Unknown
Know that you can start late, look different, be uncertain and still succeed.
Misty Copeland
It was good for a while, being empty. I didn’t hurt anymore. But as time went on, it was like I could hear myself from far away, begging for permission to come back.
Myra McEntire
Qué gusto, qué morbo le encontraba a destrozarme una y otra vez.
“You’re not a kid anymore. You have the right to choose your own life. You can start again. If you want a cat, all you have to do is choose a life in which you can have a cat. It’s simple. It’s your right.”
— Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
No quiero escribir sobre ti porque si lo hago significa que me importas otra vez, más de lo debido.
Y se supone que estoy superándote, no recordándote.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Gentle Spirit
Alice Oseman, Radio Silence
Alanis Morissette, Sorry to Myself/Haruki Murakami,1084
From Waiting for This Story to End Before I Begin Another by Jan Heller Levi (via hush-syrup)
Michael Cunningham
subtitles should be on automatically. people who don’t want them should have to turn them off
Fariha Róisín, from Who Is Wellness For?: An Examination of Wellness Culture and Who It Leaves Behind
[Text ID: “I never fought back, I learned how to cry silently, I bore my sins.”]
Your soul knows. It will literally tell you when it's time to start a new chapter of your life. Trust it.
You can love someone and still choose to say goodbye to them. You can miss someone every day and still be glad they are no longer in your life.