the reasons

i'm so glad that you exist

[quotemadness]

“Just be fucking honest about how you feel about people while you’re alive.”

— John Mayer

[1000drawings]

by  Abbie Paulhus                  

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“I’m going to do what I want to do. I’m going to be who I really am. And I’m going to figure out what that is.”

— Stephen Chbosky

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“And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.”

— Henry James

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“Ask her what she craved, and she’d get a little frantic about things like books, the woods, music. Plants and the seasons. Also freedom.”

— Charles Frazier

[asny]

Accurate

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“Having a soft heart in a cruel world is courage, not weakness.”

— Katherine Henson

[asny]

Note to self.

[asny]

I’ve had the super sads lately and everything came to a head this morning when I had a fight with my mom (about my anxiety ffs) and then my kiddo freaked out a threw a cup of milk at me (long story). I sent my bff a pic of my kitchen covered in milk as I bawled in my kitchen floor. She sent me this entry she wrote about me in her gratitude journal. I wish I felt like this person because I cannot deny that she sounds fucking awesome on paper.

[asny]

Today I googled the symptoms of peri menopause, and let me just say, I’m feeling a hell of a lot better about life in general rn.

[quotemadness]

“Above all else, it is about leaving a mark that I existed: I was here. I was hungry. I was defeated. I was happy. I was sad. I was in love. I was afraid. I was hopeful. I had an idea and I had a good purpose and that’s why I made works of art.”

— Felix Gonzalez-Torres

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“You are not weak just because your heart feels so heavy.”

— Andrea Gibson

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“If a writer falls in love with you, you can never die.”

— Mik Everett

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“Yes, be patient with me. My heart is heavy.”

— Albert Camus

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“Finding your passion isn’t just about careers and money. It’s about finding your authentic self. The one you’ve buried beneath other people’s needs.”

— Kristin Hannah

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“Ultimately, the universe doesn’t care about us. Time doesn’t care about us. That’s why we have to care about each other.”

— David Levithan

[scientificphilosopher]

“We invented phonetic writing so we could put our sounds down on paper and, by glancing at a page, hear someone speaking in our head—an invention that became so widespread in the last few thousand years that we hardly ever stop to consider how astonishing it is.”

— Carl Sagan, Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium

[litsnaps]

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“I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.”

— Neil Gaiman