[halfsavages-deactivated20200621]

osamu dazai, the setting sun, tr. donald keene

[text: This I want to believe implicitly: Man was born for love and revolution.]

[horreurscopes]

i have never felt as mature as when i finally understood (through therapy) and internalized (through emotional work) that you cannot connect and communicate with some people no matter how kind, compassionate, understanding, articulate, eloquent, or smart you are, and that sometimes a person not listening to you does not reflect on your communication skills or ability to connect or straight up intelligence. in a way, it’s letting go of the belief that you have the power to make people understand you. communication is a two-way street, and needs two willing participants. some people are just walls, and it has been unbelievably helpful for my mental and emotional health to let it slide and know that it does not affect me or my self worth. 

[anditslove]

You cannot convince people to love you. This is an absolute rule. No one will ever give you love because you want him or her to give it. Real love moves freely in both directions. Don’t waste your time on anything else.

Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things (via anditslove)

[anditslove]

Most things will be okay eventually, but not everything will be. Sometimes you’ll put up a good fight and lose. Sometimes you’ll hold on really hard and realize there is no choice but to let go. Acceptance is a small, quiet room.

Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things (via anditslove)

[section8babe]

literally everything thing that didn’t work out was not meant to work out and ive made peace with that concept.

[withlovewithsqualor-deactivated]

Might fuck around and accept the things I cannot change

[caringcoffeechats]

women are really just out here creating amazing and relevant content

[vanessashubin-deactivated202111]

my grandma told me something yesterday that pretty much changed my outlook on life. we were having dinner and talking about my future, and how all of my friends seem to be doing so much better than i am, and she looked at me and said “hey, if we all had the same path in life the road would be too crowded” and i haven’t stopped thinking about that since.

[erikaphoto-deactivated20230827]

Amen @blcksmth

[aidashakur]

i need to stop looking for clarification/closure and accept the fact that if they did it, they meant it

[soracities]

“Here’s the truth: friendships between women are often the deepest and most profound love stories, but they are often discussed as if they are ancillary, “bonus” relationships to the truly important ones. Women’s friendships outlast jobs, parents, husbands, boyfriends, lovers, and sometimes children…it’s possible to transcend the limits of your skin in a friendship…This kind of friendship is not a frivolous connection, a supplementary relationship to the ones we’re taught and told are primary – spouses, children, parents. It is love…Support, salvation, transformation, life: this is what women give to one another when they are true friends, soul friends.”

— Emily Rapp (via kuanios)

[replanting]

Humans resist life. To be alive is the biggest fear humans have. Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive — the risk to be alive and express what we really are. Just being ourselves is the biggest fear of humans. We have learned to live our lives trying to satisfy other people’s demands.

—Don Miguel Ruiz

[werenotreallystrangers]

[shriekingbanshee1-deactivated20]

How to Be a Person in the World

[thinfatfit]

instagram.com/emmazeck_

[flowerais-deactivated20211031]

what if things go well? that’s a possibility.

[wholeheartedsuggestions]

you need to forgive yourself for what you regret, because you didn’t know then what you know now. then you only knew so much and now you’ve learned. now you can do better for yourself. but you cannot go back with what you know now and choose differently. so let yourself move on. forgive.