“You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you’ll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.”
— John Green, Looking for Alaska
fiona apple was right. how can i ask anyone to love me when all i do is beg to be left alone
“Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.”
— Vincent Van Gogh
“Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.”
— Gloria Steinem (via thoughtkick)
“What a wonderful thought it is that some of the best days of our lives haven’t happened yet.”
— Unknown (via thoughtkick)
“I’ve always liked quiet people: You never know if they’re dancing in a daydream or if they’re carrying the weight of the world.”
— John Green, Looking for Alaska (via nightlyquotes)
“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I, I took the one less travelled by, and that has made all the difference.”
— Robert Frost (via thoughtkick)
“I’ve learned a lot this year. I learned that things don’t always turn our the way you planned, or the way you think they should. And I’ve learned that there are things that go wrong that don’t always get fixed or get put back together the way they were before. I’ve learned that some broken things stay broken, and I’ve learned that you can get through bad times and keep looking for better ones, as long as you have people who love you”
— Jennifer Weiner (via thoughtkick)
“Millions of people have decided not to be sensitive. They have grown thick skins around themselves just to avoid being hurt by anybody. But it is at great cost. Nobody can hurt them, but nobody can make them happy either.”
— Osho (via quotefeeling)
“The thing you are most afraid to write. Write that.”
— Nayyirah Waheed
“Growth is painful. Change is painful.But nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don’t belong.”
— Mandy Hale (via quotefeeling)
DO IT FOR HER
(her being you )
stranded with your thoughts
i have been traveling through parts of you that you cannot control, you set the tone with truths. i know that you constantly worry about me, worried that i won’t be here some day, worried that things don’t end up happy. sometimes the fear of losing someone can be painful, sometimes the person is priceless and you can’t put a price on the time that you’ve shared with them— i know that love is something we have always prayed for and no, we aren’t perfect. we are far from it. i have been traveling for awhile and your wrist hurts because you’ve been writing words for me without pen and paper, sometimes when i look at my life, i am thankful that i’m still here. i try to practice gratitude and i’m in such a healthy place and i know that sometimes you still see sadness inside of my eyes, but how can i not? i feel the pain in your silence when you tell me that you don’t want to lose me. i know that things aren’t always simple, but it doesn’t always have to be complicated. if a fire in my belly is all that i am and being alive is all that i aim for— then know that no matter how long it takes, i’m going to no longer try, i’m going to do.
— softly now
I am not always gentle and soft. When anger fills me, I don’t just rain, I storm and cause ruins. I strike every tree and thunder ever so loudly. I go on a rampage. But then, after the storm is gone, it starts to rain lightly, and sadness fills the atmosphere after rage.
i am normal in the most mortifying ways
