healing

still

[04k96]

[notgreatbob]

''i wasted those years'' who cares. you lived the only life you could've lived in those moments

[seekingmyinnerself]

Reminder to self.

Also a great quote for a cross stitch.

[pissboy]

The Daily Life of a Grandma and Her Odd-Eyed Cat - Miyoko Ihara 

[inkpressedpetals]

[nousrose]

The opposite of anxiety is not calmness, it is desire. Anxiety and desire are two, often conflicting, orientations to the unknown. Both are tilted toward the future. Desire implies a willingness, or a need, to engage this unknown, while anxiety suggests a fear of it. Desire takes one out of oneself, into the possibility of relationship, but it also takes one deeper into oneself. Anxiety turns one back on oneself, but only onto the self that is already known. There is nothing mysterious about the anxious state; it leaves one teetering in an untenable and all too familiar isolation. There is rarely desire without some associated anxiety: We seem to be wired to have apprehension about that which we cannot control, so in this way, the two are not really complete opposites. But desire gives one a reason to tolerate anxiety and a willingness to push through it.

Open to Desire

Mark Epstein

[fehck]

[sweetlikeacherry]

have you ever noticed that when you take care of yourself, the universe takes care of the rest? it’s not a coincidence

[velartis]

Franz Kafka, 1912

[scorpionlafemme]

[mournfulroses]

Clarice Lispector, from her novel titled "Água Viva," originally published in 1973

[feral-ballad]

Gabriela Mistral, tr. by Velma García-Gorena, from Gabriela Mistral’s Letters to Doris Dana; “December 28, 1949”

[Text ID: “I hope for love, because I give it.”]

[04k96]

[blovedpr1ncess]

sensitivity is a precious thing. i love knowing how my heart can ache and swell with unrelenting love and compassion. i have such a gentle spirit and i love to love. i keep my hands soft for holding and i always reserve time to dream

[textswithbae]

*deep breath* thank god for boys who call their girlfriend “my girl”. Ya’ll are doing it right

[sanstoitniloi]

"You survive this and in some terrible way, which I suppose no one can ever describe, you are compelled, you are corralled, you are bullwhipped into dealing with whatever it is that hurt you. And what is crucial here is that if it hurt you, that is not what’s important. Everybody’s hurt. What is important, what corrals you, what bullwhips you, what drives you, torments you, is that you must find some way of using this to connect you with everyone else alive. This is all you have to do it with. You must understand that your pain is trivial except insofar as you can use it to connect with other people’s pain; and insofar as you can do that with your pain, you can be released from it, and then hopefully it works the other way around too; insofar as I can tell you what it is to suffer, perhaps I can help you to suffer less."

- James Baldwin, The Artist's Struggle for Integrity

[soracities]

"Absolutely no one comes to save us but us."

Ismatu Gwendolyn, "you've been traumatized into hating reading (and it makes you easier to oppress)", from Threadings, on Substack [ID'd]

[luthienne]

updated link

[papayajuan2019]

youre gonna grow up and realize just how much more lightheartedness you need in life