AISHA

melanin/ +love / painter Maryland

[rderose]

03•29•2018🌱

[slow-it-down-dear]

Crossing Oceans

If you want to cross the ocean, you must be patient enough to build a boat, courageous enough to depart from dry land, and stubborn enough to refuse the waves’ attempts to make you flinch.

You will be battered and torn and tossed around, but if you are brave, you will beat the ocean inch by inch. And then one day you’ll wake up on the opposite shore, and not only will the land beneath your feet be new, but you will be new too.

- Z.M.

[riseafterfalling]

I wish someone would randomly tell me little facts about myself. Not ones that I have already told them but ones they have picked up by themselves because they care enough to notice the little things I do.

[wnq-writers]

How to Survive 1 - count. tell yourself one. two. three. four. five. six. start over. 2 - breathe. it goes like this: in, out. in, out. you can close your eyes, but just breathe. 3 - cry. let tears fall. scream, wail sob your sorrows. don’t be alright. 4 - talk. don’t be silent. don’t listen to that voice that says no one cares they’ll listen. 5 - laugh. laugh loudly at anything. laugh because it’s raining. 6 - keep moving life is a river darling and you stop and start drowning, so move. 7 - learn. learn to dance. learn to suck at things and be okay with it. do things you never expected. 8 - have fun. watch a movie, eat ice cream in bed with only your socks on, don’t brush your hair that day. 9 - I’m going to tell you something, it’s different from the rest, now you need to know though so here it is right now: 10 - it’s okay to not be okay to regress, because an arrow only moves forward, once it is pulled back and you’re an arrow darling. So count to ten breathe in. breathe out. cry. talk. laugh loudly. keep moving. keep learning. have fun. darling, this is how you survive.

justokayskybluepinkviolinistcat  (via wnq-writers)

[wnq-writers]

And what she had was beautiful resilience. She was broken several times but she always found a way of recreating herself.

iambrillyant (via wnq-writers)

[cosmicwizdom]

[kidnostalgia]

[cosmicwizdom]

Loyalty is hard to find. Trust is easy to lose. Actions speak louder than words.

- unknown (via quotelounge)

[samera-flowers]

National Gallery of Art : Washington DC

Photos by Reuel Lara @ reuelklara on Instagram.

[ishamisha]

[kushandwizdom]

you’ll never have to force what’s real

Unknown (via kushandwizdom)

[purplebuddhaproject]

The bravest thing I ever did was continuing my life when I wanted to die.

(via partyomoxo)

[stardustsstudies]

Rest if you must, but don’t you quit.

i read this somewhere (via studyfc)

[deeplifequotes]

You’re under no obligation to diminish yourself to make others more comfortable.

Emma Magenta (via deeplifequotes)

[deeplifequotes]

Please be patient with me. Sometimes when I’m quiet, it’s because I need to figure myself out. It’s not because I don’t want to talk. Sometimes there are no words for my thoughts.

Kamla Bolaños (via deeplifequotes)

[deeplifequotes]

We all grow at different rates so never compare yourself to someone else’s situation, doing so, can only bring disappointment!

Massy Arias (via deeplifequotes)

[kushandwizdom]

sometimes it’s more about being there for someone when they need you rather than you benefiting from it. you’ll be rewarded later.

Cirino (via kushandwizdom)