Every Saint Has A Past, Every Sinner Has A Future

It says, "Lindsey" on my birth certificate... Though I've been called, "junkie, dyke, lesbo, bitch, asshole, felon, thief and alcoholic" in my day. •addict in recovery• my page is the only type of "journaling" I can get into.

[sheisrecovering]

[theclamcommander-blog]

🙌🏻🙌🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[thehappyrealityproject]

Affirmations to start or end your day :)

[life-observed]

Wholeness does not mean perfection: it means embracing brokenness as an integral part of life. Knowing this gives me hope that human wholeness — mine, yours, ours — need not be a utopian dream, if we can use devastation as a seedbed for new life.

Parker Palmer (via life-observed)

[abiding-in-peace]

The Buddha said that nothing can survive without food. If our pain, our sorrow, our fears are still there, it’s because we keep feeding them. Once we have recognized and embraced our pain, our sorrow, our fear, and found some relief, we can continue to practice looking deeply into the nature of our pain to recognize its roots. We can recognize what kind of nutrient has brought about our ill-being, fear, and depression.

Thich Nhat Hanh (via abiding-in-peace)

[transcendent-one]

[lolcatholic-blog]

If you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell are right, I need to get a better handle on myself and there’s no excuse for my behavior

[alwaysabeautifullife]

Thank you for finally fixing the worst and most overly glorified quote of all humanity.

[the-homie-sexual]

I have a nasty habit of staying when I should leave and running when I should stay. I fall in love with the wrong ones and let the right ones pass me by. And after a while I think I’ve lost the ability to feel; my heart of fire turned into a heart of ice. The scariest concept used to be that someone was going to make me lose all ability to feel, now it’s that somebody is going to let me feel again.

(via the-homie-sexual)

[rodeoh]

[kelsi-recovers]

As a child I was taught to believe addicts are somehow “bad people.” However, now that I am white-knuckling through my own sobriety and recovery, I am finding these so-called “bad people” are my soulmates. Addicts are remarkable people. Addicts fight a war within themselves every single day. Addicts are stereotyped and discriminated against. Addicts are beaten down and made to believe they are weak. With all odds against them, addicts do live healthy lives in recovery, and for that, I am grateful.

(via kelsi-recovers)

[thelovejournals]

I’m not looking for somebody who will whisper sweet nothings into my ear to feed the ravenous ego of my heart. But someone who can look me straight in the eye and say, I love you, whether you fail or fall, just as you are.

Beau Taplin, The Ego (via thelovejournals)

[written-in-pen]

It’s when the lights go out that my mind ignites.

E. Grin (via written-in-pen)

[radiantquotes]

[flirtingwithwords]

She’s scared you do not love her even when you promise her a million times that you do. She’s scared you’re going to rush in with your hypnotic laugh and golden eyes, and steal her fire. She’s going to have a hard time falling asleep most nights because she thinks tomorrow might be the day she wakes up and you are no longer in love with her small snore and sleepy eyes. But she is worth it. She’s worth the endless reassurance and relentless love. She will give you the best days of your life. She’s not broken. But she’s sunshine and tsunamis and every daring contradiction. She is love.

Rachel M. Fredette (via iwrotethewordsforyou)

[drowning-at-3am]

She was afraid of tomorrow She always held in her sorrow The world scared her The way people just replaced her She couldn’t sleep at night She couldn’t find the strength to fight But she had hope that love will find it’s way through her heart And keep her away from falling apart -l.m

(via drowning-at-3am)

[radiantquotes]

[tr-oubl-ed]

[hasleyhoe]

all the kids cried out

“please stop you’re scaring me”

control // halsey