Neurotic Wandering Mind

The running conversations in our head

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Someone has to leave first. This is a very old story. There is no other version of this story.

Richard Siken

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"Do it scared" "do it alone" are all great tips, but my biggest takeaway from therapy is do it messy. This is especially true if you're getting out of a burnout, which I experience often. Literally just do it messy. You don't need to pick the perfect trail to walk, the perfect playlist to listen to, whatever the fuck it is. You don't need to have a meticulous to do list and wake up at the exact time you planned and drink the exact amount of water you planned to drink. Like the biggest thing for people like me to remember is sometimes it's okay to do it messy. Put on a random yt workout and just get it done in sweats. Do 5 minutes of a daunting task and go from there. Sometimes just getting up is a win during intense burnouts or depressive funks. Literally just do it messy.

stuckinapril

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Blessings never go to the wrong address. Even the piece of fruit you're eating today was meant to be yours from the moment the seed was planted. It was picked through a long journey, sold by a trader, and then arrived in your hands. So remember, what's yours... will find its way, always.

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There are people who take the heart out of you, and there are people who put it back.

Elizabeth David

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You mustn't think that I'm dreadfully sad. Yes, I am, but you know, at the back of it is absolute faith and hope and love.

(from Katherine Mansfield's letter to J.M. Murry)

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The inherent romanticism of being thought of.

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Every atrocity in history begins with someone deciding who counts as a human.

Marcus Aurelius

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There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious.

C. S. LEWIS

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I was never really insane, except on occasions where my heart was touched.

Edgar Allan Poe

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The human heart has tiresome tendency to label as fate only what crushes it.

Franz Kafka & Albert Camus

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The mental calculations women make before sending one "simple" text needs to be studied.

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It takes years as a woman to unlearn what you have been taught to be sorry for.

Amy Poehler in Yes please

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Being a woman is a terribly difficult trade since it consists principally of dealings with men.

Joseph Conrad

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Maybe our world will grow kinder eventually. Maybe the desire to make something beautiful is the piece of God that is inside each of us.

Mary Oliver

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…and I am out with lanterns, looking for myself.

- Emily Dickinson

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The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.

Maya Angelou

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I wanted to be seen just as much as I didn't.

Carrie Fountain