[secrets-you-keep]

Farnaz Fassihi on Twitter

“#BREAKING: Iran Revolutionary Guards begin "fierce revenge" on US. Iranian ballistic missiles hit Al Assad military base in #Iraq, largest

One day down. Two hundred to go. This one is going to be tough.

[miraclegirl]

“If pain can purify the heart, mine will be pure.”

— Mary Shelley, from “Mathilda,” originally published c. October 1812 (via violentwavesofemotion)

[assyrianjalebi]

Gone Girl (2014), dir. David Fincher

[favoritelittlelyrics]

Khalid, “Talk”

[zarb]

[lingrix]

“If a person can’t get out of bed, something is making them exhausted. If a student isn’t writing papers, there’s some aspect of the assignment that they can’t do without help. If an employee misses deadlines constantly, something is making organization and deadline-meeting difficult. Even if a person is actively choosing to self-sabotage, there’s a reason for it — some fear they’re working through, some need not being met, a lack of self-esteem being expressed. People do not choose to fail or disappoint. No one wants to feel incapable, apathetic, or ineffective. If you look at a person’s action (or inaction) and see only laziness, you are missing key details. There is always an explanation. There are always barriers. Just because you can’t see them, or don’t view them as legitimate, doesn’t mean they’re not there. Look harder. Maybe you weren’t always able to look at human behavior this way. That’s okay. Now you are. Give it a try.”

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— “Laziness Does Not Exist” by E Price on Medium

(And a footnote I didn’t see explicitly covered in the article: laziness still doesn’t exist when it is you yourself making no progress and not knowing why. You deserve that respect and consideration, too, even from yourself.)

[checked]

“Human relationships are strange. I mean, you are with one person a while, eating and sleeping and living with them, loving them, talking to them, going places together, and then it stops”

— Charles Bukowski (via checked)

[secrets-you-keep]

1-12-18, 7:46 a.m., NYC

I don’t know a day can be any better than yesterday, but right now I’m waking up (hungover, waiting for room service to bring us coffee) in a king sized bed in Manhattan with the only man who’s ever had my entire heart sleeping next to me so I’d say today is starting out okay.

[secrets-you-keep]

I love you,

Please stop breaking my heart.

[love]

You’re home. (via pinterest)

[myonlywayoutofhere]

“How many times can you break my heart before I finally walk away?”

-Day 399

[magiclyrics]

[onlinecounsellingcollege]

“The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself.”

— Maya Angelou

[secrets-you-keep]

Now imagine all of these views but instead with the guy you love by your side. 😍

[746a70]

[cntnd]

“Please don’t use ‘I love you’ as a filler when you’ve got nothing to say. Don’t use it as an alternative for ‘sorry’. Don’t use it when you’re feeling bad or mad. Don’t use it to escape an argument. Don’t say it out of pity. Don’t use it against someone. Instead, please use it wisely. Calm yourself then think once, twice, or maybe even a hundred times before using it. Question yourself before uttering it. Make sure you know it’s what you feel before saying it. Say it only to the right person. Say it because you mean it. Say it because not saying it makes you anxious. Say it because there’s no other word nor phrase that compares to how you feel. Say it because that person earned your trust to hear it and last; Say this to yourself. You deserve it.”

—  3 am thoughts (via suspend)

[cntnd]

“You make lists in your head about what you want in a lover, like brown hair and a sweet voice. A sharp mind and a soft heart, a sense of humor that actually makes you laugh like you mean it. This and that. And it’s all bullshit. Because people aren’t lists. And I’ve always wanted to be the person who made someone realize that. I want to come across someone with a list in their head that is nothing like the person I am, and I want to show them what they didn’t even know they were looking for. People who think they know what they want are fooling themselves. Nobody really knows what they want. Not until it’s right in front of them.”

— Anonymous (via suspend)