Lights will guide you home, and ignite your bones

[juansendizon]

“Being compassionate doesn’t mean that you’re always kind, caring and sensitive towards others. It means that despite what has happened to you during the day you choose not to contribute to the suffering of others and sometimes that is enough.”

— Juansen Dizon, Compassionate

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

when john keats said “how sad it is when a luxurious imagination is obliged in self-defence to deaden its delicacy in vulgarity, and riot in things attainable that it may not have leisure to go mad after things which are not”

[juansendizon]

There are only five people in this life that I want to be surrounded with forever: a lover, a fellow dreamer, a person whom I can call my best friend when my sorrow flows like a river, a teacher who will send me back to myself and a student whom I can teach to that no matter how crappy things are in life—learn to never say never.

Juansen Dizon, Soul Group (via juansendizon)

[savagedefectives]

maggie nelson on eve kosofsky sedgwick

[wordsnquotes]

The Small Stuff

[tolackcolour]

“I felt like lying down by the side of the trail and remembering it all. The woods do that to you, they always look familiar, long lost, like the face of a long-dead relative, like an old dream, like a piece of forgotten song drifting across the water, most of all like golden eternities of past childhood or past manhood and all the living and the dying and the heartbreak that went on a million years ago and the clouds as they pass overhead seem to testify (by their own lonesome familiarity) to this feeling.” ― Jack Kerouac

[featherumbrellas-deactivated201]

“Start over my darling. Be brave enough to find the life you want, and courageous enough to chase it.”

— Madalyn Beck 

[thecalminside]

“Don’t be too quick to interpret the moment. Just keep quiet. My encouragement would always be: never think anything is against you, everything is blessing. Why should it be different? Just be quiet. Let it all work itself out.”

Mooji

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

“Remember June’s long days, and wild strawberries, drops of wine, the dew.”

— Adam Zagajewski, tr. by Clare Cavanagh, from “Try to Praise the Mutilated World,”

[breathe-serenity]

There's a lot that goes unspoken, and I'm learning that it's the things we don't say that start to come back and haunt us. It's the things we hide from one another that turn into the deepest scars.

This experience is teaching me that we shouldn't live our lives carefully treading around one another. Pain deserves to be felt and shared, and that's the only way we can overcome it.

[featherumbrellas-deactivated201]

“When a thing has served its purpose, it will go away. If you try to hold on to something that has already fulfilled its purpose in your life, you are going to hurt yourself. If holding on is disturbing your peace of mind, it makes sense to let go. Surrender all attachments to people and things that you have been struggling to hold on to.”

— Iyanla Vanzant 

[breathe-serenity]

You don't know my story so don't tell me how I should or should not feel

[atarivideogameburials-deactivat]

heres a “think” “piece” for you all: the universe is a living creature and it is tender in spite of all the chaos we endure within it 

[breathe-serenity]

At 24, I learned that success and happiness will always come at a cost.

[books-n-quotes]

How quietly we endure all that falls upon us.

Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns (via witchquotes)

[julesofnature]

 “Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it. Embracing our vulnerabilities is risky but not nearly as dangerous as giving up on love and belonging and joy—the experiences that make us the most vulnerable. Only when we are brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our light.”  - Brené Brown

[motherofhermes]

When you realize it’s not personal, there is no longer a compulsion to react as if it were.

Eckhart Tolle (via motherofhermes)