Optimistically Pessimistic

A 20-something year old who lost her Dad two years ago and misses him more than ever. I work in sports and love my dog.

[screwbeautifulimbrilliant]

“My sweetest heart, I wish I could take this pain away from you, just for one day. I wish I could help you, tell you that everything will be okay again, but I can’t lie to you. That’s something I never could. The only thing I can tell you is the truth. The truth behind losing one of the most important persons in your life. And the truth is, it will hurt. It will hurt so badly that you will barely be able to breathe. And you will cry, cry so much that you think it will never stop. And you will feel lonely, so lonely like never before in your life. And you will grieve, lie in your bed and just want to make it stop, to disappear. But it won’t, not for a long time. And all of that is okay, because all of that will happen. There are no words, no actions that can prevent it, nothing to make it any better. You just have to go through this, and oh how badly I wish you didn’t have to. The only thing I can offer you is my embrace when it hurts so much that you think you might fall apart. My promise to kiss all of your tears away. My hand that will hold you when you think no one understands you. My unconditional love, because that’s the best I can give. And oh my sweetest heart, how I wish I could help you, but we both know, I can’t.”

— the truth behind (via mywordsforthoughts)

[screwbeautifulimbrilliant]

“But there’s a story behind everything. How a picture got on a wall. How a scar got on your face. Sometimes the stories are simple, and sometimes they are hard and heartbreaking. But behind all your stories is always your mother’s story, because hers is where yours begin.”

— Mitch Albom, For One More Day (via thequotejournals)

[screwbeautifulimbrilliant]

“The thing that the ‘stages of grief’ forgets to tell you is that it’s a continuous cycle rather than a procession from Door 1 to Door 2 to Door 3 and so on. And not everyone will visit those stages in order, and some will skip a door or two. There’s no time limit on grief because there’s no time limit on love, and there’s no right or wrong way to mourn. Those feelings you think you should be over aren’t right or wrong - they just are, they’re valid. And letting yourself feel them is a part of healing”

— Selena Wilson (via survivingsiblingsuicide)

[fremde-waren-freunde]

“For what it’s worth: It’s never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you’re proud of, and if you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start over.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

[soyouwanttoplaytheflute]

“The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or breack a company, a church a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past. We cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the innevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is 10% what happened to me and 90% how I react to it. And so it is with you. We are in charge of our attitudes”

— Charles R. Swindoll

[icreatewhatibelieve]

“Our attitude toward life determines life’s attitude towards us.”

— John N. Mitchell

[books-n-quotes]

“I hope you find someone you can’t live without. I really do. And I hope you never have to know what it’s like to have to try and live without them.”

— Kiera Cass, The Selection

[0nly-an-illusi0n]

[onlinecounsellingcollege]

“Breathe. It’s only a bad day, not a bad life.”

— Ashley Purdy

[blooming-anna-rose]

“And as we drove onto the exit, I felt more and more trapped. My eyes started watering in remembrance of what has happened here. I couldn’t breathe as my throat started to choke up in fear. In dread. I don’t know if I can survive another year of this. I dont want to be here. I don’t want to be here if you aren’t here. I don’t want to go to this place. It isn’t home to me. You are home. You are my home.”

— N.C // what I thought as I drove onto the exit.

[not-hard-to-love]

[books-n-quotes]

“I’m with you. No matter what else you have in your head I’m with you and I love you.”

— Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden

[screwbeautifulimbrilliant]

“Sometimes you feel like the expectations are coming from the people around you but you don’t realise that sometimes it is actually you are the one who sets them for yourself. When you failed, you can’t see anything else your mind is on overdrive and you blame yourself because all you can think of is a long list of “I should’ve, could’ve, would’ve”. You are crying now because you know it is true. You know you have no control over it. It is always on overdrive once it is on. What is this ‘it’ again that we’re here for? Just remember you can’t function normally or achieve what you want to achieve if you let the black hole swallow you whole when it strikes. We don’t want to go back there. We’ll try not to go back there. Whenever you feel like it is taking over you and you don’t want anybody to notice, just close eyes. Close your eyes, stay put, you may start crying but keep your eyes closed until you’re done talking yourself out from crying.”

— Going through the notes from SVI..  (via jxcapulet)

[quotemadness]

“I hope you find someone who knows how to love you when you are sad.”

— Nikita Gill

[screwbeautifulimbrilliant]

“Tears aren’t for the people we’ve lost. They’re for us. So we can remember, and celebrate, and miss them, and feel human.”

— Quinn - Deception, CJ Redwine (via bloodycleverangel)

[livewicca]

“If there’s empty spaces in your heart, They’ll make you think it’s wrong, Like having empty spaces, Means you can never be strong. But I’ve learnt that all these spaces, Means there’s room enough to grow, And the people that once filled them, Were always meant to be let go. And all these empty spaces, Create a strange sort of pull, That attract so many people, You wouldn’t meet if they were full. So if you’re made of empty spaces, Don’t ever think it’s wrong, Because maybe they’re just empty, Until the right person comes along.”

— Ernest Hemmingway

[sunsetquotes]

“I can be someone’s and still be my own.”

— Shel Silverstein; The Missing Piece