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“I have always, essentially, been waiting. Waiting to become something else, waiting to be that person I always thought I was on the verge of becoming, waiting for that life I thought I would have. In my head, I was always one step away.”
— Shauna Niequist, Cold Tangerines
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Reblogging this once more because my mom and I legitimately laughed to tears.
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this is my favorite video on the internet
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mental health tip: save this video. watch it when you’re sad. it’s the best goddamn thing on the internet
Be gentle with yourself. You’ve had many moments in your life that have left your soul drained, but you are still moving. The darkness around you has obscured your vision of the future, but you are still here. Despite every tear-stained night, despite every bridge that had to burn for you to make it to this point, you are still here. Give yourself more credit, you deserve it.
Maxwell Diawuoh
“Sometimes you just need someone to tell you you’re not as terrible as you think you are.”
— Unknown
When you feel perpetually unmotivated, you start questioning your existence in an unhealthy way; everything becomes a pseudo intellectual question you have no interest in responding whatsoever. This whole process becomes your very skin and it does not merely affect you; it actually defines you. So, you see yourself as a shadowy figure unworthy of developing interest, unworthy of wondering about the world - profoundly unworthy in every sense and deeply absent in your very presence.
Ingmar Bergman
All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried to tell me what it was. I accepted their answers, too, though they were often in contradiction and even self-contradictory. I was naive. I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer.
Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
Sometimes, you overthink things so much that you ruin something before it even begins, then you beat yourself up, replaying everything in your mind.
Kirsten Corley (What Anxiety Actually Is, Since It’s Certainly Not ‘Just Worrying’)



