#on brokenness

[marisadonnelly]

I think sometimes we forget how truly amazing we are.

We see our brokenness, we feel our emptiness, we experience pain and we let that get the best of us. We allow that negativity to fill us, to control us, and just bring us down.

But the thing is, we are still lovable, even and all our mistakes and imperfections. We are still complete, even in all the ways we don’t measure up. And we are still so capable even at our lowest and most weakest points.

Stop being so hard on yourself. You are loved. You are lovely. You are enough. 💕

[hollymcghee]

With an eye to the various brokennesses of the world, past and present, Morrison writes: 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. I know the world is bruised and bleeding, and though it is important not to ignore its pain, it is also critical to refuse to succumb to its malevolence. Like failure, chaos contains information that can lead to knowledge — even wisdom. Like art.

Toni Morrison, via brainpickings

[marisadonnelly]

Let your brokenness bring you home.

For sometimes only when you break, do you learn the strength hidden within your skin.