[philosophybits]

“Live, and be happy, and make others so.”

— Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

[somewordsarebiggerthanothers]

[weltenwellen]

Nicole Sealey, from "Cento for the Night I Said, "I Love You"

[weltenwellen]

Ocean Vuong, The Emperor of Gladness

[weltenwellen]

May Sarton, Journal of a Solitude

[weltenwellen]

Joanna Klink, from "Wonder of Birds“, Raptus

[typewriter-worries]

[ Text ID: I believe in what is gentle in us, despite what we have done ]

[weltenwellen]

Resmaa Menakem, My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies

[weltenwellen]

Andrea Gibson, Lord of the Butterflies

[weltenwellen]

Andrea Gibson, Lord of the Butterflies

[weltenwellen]

Nikki Giovanni, The Collected Poetry, 1968-1998

[weltenwellen]

Leila Chatti, from "I Went Out to Hear"

[weltenwellen]

Rachel Gillig, The Knight and the Moth

[weltenwellen]

May Sarton, Journal of a Solitude

[asoftwrongness]

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[quotemadness]

“Most people need love and acceptance a lot more than they need advice.”

— Bob Goff

[sunsetexhaust]

felt like sharing these two quotes side by side today:

“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”

—Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

"We only need to be one person. We only need to feel one existence. We don’t have to do everything in order to be everything, because we are already infinite. While we are alive we always contain a future of multifarious possibility."

—Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

[quotemadness]

“The past does not have to be your prison. You have a voice in your destiny. You have a say in your life. You have a choice in the path you take.”

— Max Lucado

[thoughtkick]

“What cannot be said will be wept.”

— Unknown

[perfectquote]

“Don’t say maybe if you want to say no.”

— Paulo Coelho

[quotemadness]

“The best listeners listen between the lines.”

— Nina Malkin