Chloe

[gymhairdontcare]

[diaryofthelegallybrunette]

My job is to interpret, and to communicate my interpretations persuasively to other people. The idea that in life, unlike in writing, the drive to analyse and influence might be something worth relinquishing was to me a revelation.

Ariel Levy (via diaryofthelegallybrunette)

[diaryofthelegallybrunette]

On Self-Respect: Joan Didion’s 1961 Essay from the Pages of Vogue

Joan Didion’s seminal 1961 Vogue essay on self-respect.

“Like Jordan Baker, people with self-respect have the courage of their mistakes. They know the price of things. If they choose to commit adultery, they do not then go running, in an access of bad conscience, to receive absolution from the wronged parties; nor do they complain unduly of the unfairness, the undeserved embarrassment, of being named corespondent. If they choose to forego their work—say it is screenwriting—in favor of sitting around the Algonquin bar, they do not then wonder bitterly why the Hacketts, and not they, did Anne Frank.”

“They are willing to invest something of themselves; they may not play at all, but when they do play, they know the odds.”

[purplebuddhaproject]

But is it such a bad thing to live like this for just a little while? Just for a few months of one’s life, is it so awful to travel through time with no greater ambition than to find the next lovely meal? Or to learn how to speak a language for no higher purpose than that it pleases your ear to hear it? Or to nap in a garden, in a patch of sunlight, in the middle of the day, right next to your Favorited fountain? And then to do it again the next day?

Elizabeth Gilbert (via purplebuddhaproject)

[fyp-psychology]

If the world was free of problems, paradise would lose its value.

Mufti Menk (via fyp-psychology)

[nastygall]

[onlinecounsellingcollege]

If you are not willing to look stupid, nothing great will ever happen to you.

Unknown (via onlinecounsellingcollege)

[evgenegve]

[charlottewinslow]

[onlinecounsellingcollege]

Your destiny isn’t tied to the people who walked away.

Joel Osteen (via onlinecounsellingcollege)

[wordsnquotes]

Don’t waste your life believing you can’t.

Jack Canfield (via wordsnquotes)

[gomcgill]

Breathe. You’re going to be okay. Breathe and remember that you’ve been in this place before. You’ve been this uncomfortable and anxious and scared, and you’ve survived. Breathe and know that you can survive this too. These feelings can’t break you. They’re painful and debilitating, but you can sit with them and eventually, they will pass. Maybe not immediately, but sometime soon, they are going to fade and when they do, you’ll look back at this moment and laugh for having doubted your resilience. I know it feels unbearable right now, but keep breathing, again and again. This will pass. I promise it will pass.

Daniell Koepke (via mysimplereminders)

[charlottewinslow]

[amandagenine-deactivated2019062]

You have to continue to work even when you’re not being praised. You have to dig deep and go the extra mile because breakthroughs don’t happen when you do the bare minimum. It has to come from you and be for you. It all comes down to you.

a reminder to myself when I get frustrated and defeated (via runningmandz)

[iloveyoursoul]

[queer-and-sunny]

Never run back to what broke you.

Remember this, no matter how much you think going back will make you whole again, no matter how hard it is and the courage it takes, do not look back on your past, you can’t re write the ending.  (via beautiphool)

[fy-perspectives]

If you find yourself constantly trying to prove your worth to someone, you have already forgotten your value.

(via schnapsliebe)