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i wish to live a life that causes my soul to dance inside my body

[relatablepoetryandquotes]

[explore-blog]

[poetsandwriters]

“This is precisely the time when artists go to work. There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.”

—Toni Morrison (The Nation, 2015)

[thequotejournals]

Staying quiet doesn’t mean I’ve nothing to say. It means I don’t think you’re ready to hear my thoughts.

Unknown (via wnq-writers)

[wnq-writers]

I think the worst type of crying is when you don’t know the reason for your tears but you know you are broken and can’t be fixed

profounddemonqueen (via wnq-writers)

[relatablepoetryandquotes]

“We had everything to say to each other, but no ways to say it.” - Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

[sadyangmatalino]

I know we have grown apart and surely we’ve outgrown each other in a way or two and I know I’m probably the last person you wanna talk to right now but I just wanna thank you, because at some point in our lives, back when our puzzle pieces still fit together, we had something worthwhile, we made something worth keeping and we made something beautiful. So for that, I sincerely thank you.

[relatablepoetryandquotes]

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I wish I were a person who knows who she is. I have friends who are on the path of becoming the person who they are meant to be, yet I feel like time is just standing still for me as I wonder and feel like a lost soul who can’t seem to find where she wants to be.

I wish I were a person who can make up her damn mind; I always become bored easily so I am constantly changing. I always seem to be swinging back and forth between emotions, thoughts and opinions. Maybe if I can make up my mind, I can find out who I want to be and finally move on and make something of myself.

I wish I were someone who had ambition to live because for a long while now, I have been on the grey. I cannot say I am living, just floating from day to day. I’m not suicidal but I don’t mind if I did die. Most of the days, I feel like an old soul who is just not in the wrong place. I am just tired of the simple things like waking up, brushing my teeth, putting on my shoes, etc.

I wish I weren’t who I am right now. But since I’m not a person who can make up her damn mind and am constantly changing, I wonder if I will ever like me.

” - kishji 

[relatablepoetryandquotes]

“I’ve dreamt of dancing i’ve dreamt of singing i’ve dreamt of climbing the highest mountain and i’ve dreamt of searching the deepest sea. i’ve dreamt many things in my life time, but i’m still the same old me. I paint when i’m tired, i drink tea when i’m bored, i listen to sad music when up upset, and i write when i’m drowning in emotions. I don’t know who i am or what i will become, all i know is that one day down the road I will be. and that is enough. if i’m singing on broadway, or singing in my car, i will be someone i will be myself no matter who i am or what i do i will be the person i am supposed to be.” - Kailyn Mattingly

[astagesetforcatastrophe]

1. One day you’ll learn that you can’t fill the vacancies in your soul with people alone. Yes, you can occupy your cold bed with your lover’s warm body and the spaces between your fingers with their hands but loneliness just can’t be cured that way — not with something physical anyway. Because no matter how many crowds of people you cram into the windows and doors, an abandoned house is still an abandoned house if the tenant never returns and sometimes, just sometimes, the only person who can save you is yourself. 2. There will be days you will stumble out of your bed, wondering how it’s possible you’re still standing upright when your heavy heart feels like it’ll sink to the ocean floor like dead whales do after the gases that keep them afloat are expelled. But even then, your legs won’t bow out on you and neither will your spine. That’s the world telling you that it hasn’t abandoned you yet. And it never will - unless you give in first. So promise me that you’ll give up giving up on yourself. Please. 3. Sometimes you have to remind yourself that doing something wrong doesn’t make you a terrible person. It only makes you human and there’s absolutely nothing wrong with that. 4. You are my little warrior. So go show them that a victim can be made a victor, that you can tame a pride of lions with a whisper, and trigger avalanches with nothing but a puff of air. 5. After staying up so late that you get to watch the sun bleach the night sky until it’s the palest blue you’ve ever seen, you’ll realize that in those dead silences you don’t need a stethoscope to listen to your heart. 6. When the right boy or girl kisses you and walks away, you’ll feel as if you’ve been killed 150 times over and the lanterns along your spine have been lit up all at the same time. 7. In order to do things properly, sometimes you have to unlearn the wrong way first because old habits die hard. 8. You need to let go of the people who will dissect you only to study the way love works but hold onto those who will gently crack you open like a fortune cookie with odd prophecies and still love you without understanding why.

astagesetforcatastrophe, messages to my granddaughter (via astagesetforcatastrophe)

[wnq-writers]

Concept: It gets better. Your mind quiets down considerably. There are still days when it manages to shout its lies, but you make it past those days every time. Death no longer seems as attractive as before because life has a beauty you never really noticed. The idea of loving yourself is no longer just a thought, it’s reality, and you’re loved too, in whatever way you wish to be. You are worth it, and unlike all of those times in the past, you actually believe it.

Maxwell Diawuoh (via wnq-writers)

[nprsnal]

Oh jesus, you're too good to be true

[wnq-writers]

My love for you was as deep as the ocean, but you couldn’t see it. You looked at my surface and thought that that was all that’s left of me.

b-li55 (via wnq-writers)

[theliteraryjournals]

I know you’ll never love me but maybe you’ll stay for awhile.

Henry Rollins, Solipsist (via theliteraryjournals)

[wnq-music]

If I fell in love with you would you promise to be true and help me understand? Because I’ve been in love before and I found that love was more than just holding hands. If I give my heart to you I must be sure from the very start that you would love me more than [them]. If I trust in you, please don’t run and hide. If I love you too, oh please, Don’t hurt my pride like [them]. Because I couldn’t stand the pain ….So I hope you see that I Would love to love you.

The Beatles, “If I Fell,” A Hard Day’s Night (via wnq-music)

[wnq-music]

I’m in competition with myself and I’m losing.

Roger Waters (via wnq-music)

[wnq-music]

I’m the colorless sunrise That’s never good enough I’m the wind that’s in your hair That ruffles you up

Imagine Dragons, “Every Night”, Night Visions   (via wnq-music)

[onlinedaddy]

anyone else feel like they’re toxic to anyone they care about