Jess has a Journal

This is exactly what it says on the tin. A journal and a place to catch all my thoughts. Pretty simple and easy.

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"How do you know she is your person?"

"Because when i want to run away, she is who i'm running toward."

— Whitney Hanson

[madamemigraine]

[jezzatesting]

I knew you were special when I started choosing you over being alone And that's rare for me Because I can count on one hand the number of places I feel at peace. And so far, the only one that had breath and a beating heart was me But with you For the first time I found myself craving someone else's heartbeat. I don't crave it like chocolate cake. It's more like the way you crave silence after a long day. The way you want vegetables and water after eating pie for every meal on the Holidays. I don't want you because I need you But because who you are settles something in me that can't be settled on its own.

And for once, I find peace when I'm not all alone.

Whitney Hanson

[feral-ballad]

Bianca Stone, from What Is Otherwise Infinite: Poems; “Yield”

[Text ID: “you look like a broken porcelain cup / swept into a bag so it won’t / hurt anyone else.”]

[thepursuitofunderstanding]

“When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.”

—

Friedrich Nietzsche

[i-wrotethisforme]

Sometimes things start out perfect and it’s all romance and flowers and magic but then two years later I’m pretending I don’t hear your phone vibrating on your side of the bed and you’re pretending not to realize something’s bothering me. Because perfect never lasts because perfect doesn’t exist. There needs to be a mess, that’s what makes it real love. Sometimes you need to fight and accuse and make and break promises. Sometimes you need to scream at each other until you can’t breathe. It can’t all be acting or none of it will be real.

[intellectualpoaching]

“To treat all men with equal benevolence and to be kind to everyone irrespective of who he is can be just as much an emanation of a profound cynicism as of a thorough philanthropy.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human

[fatimazainab]

Mary Oliver, In Blackwater Woods

[philosophors]

“One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche, “The Portable Nietzsche”

[blackcoffee-speysidewhisky]

“Some people come into your life because they are meant to show you a handful of beautiful things that this world has to offer. They are meant to make your heart feel warm, make the butterflies in your stomach circle around, and bring you to a place you never thought possible. They are meant to make you feel love - but they are meant to make you feel all of it, both the good and the bad parts. But you should know something, it’s not always going to be a happy ending - so when it’s time for them to leave, you should not regret them. You should not hold them down and make them stay. Instead, you should let them go and thank them for showing you everything that no other person in this life could ever do. Saying goodbye is inevitable and it should not be dreaded or feared, saying goodbye is a part of life.”

— c.f. // saying goodbye is all we’re left with

[not-your-simple-aesthetic]

“You left so much inside of me, and it’s too heavy to move on my own. I left so much inside of you, and I’ve lost direction to all I’ve ever known.”

— r. m. drake

[i-wrotethisforme]

You still think about it every day. You think about it less and less every day, but it’s still every day. What about 3 years ago though? What did you think about every day back then, because it wasn’t this, was it? And whatever it was, you probably don’t still think about it every day, do you? You might not even remember what it was that you couldn’t stop thinking about 3 years ago today. But that’s the point. Things that take up our entire life today, things that destroy us and feel like the literal end of the world, will mean nothing one day. One day, we might not even remember them.

[mxxnlightsblog]

you think you are not good enough. but the reality is. you are. you are everything and more. don't let your doubts bury your light. don't let your fear control what you're meant to feel. you are enough.

-r. m. drake