Happiness comes from within

[quotemadness]

“The moment you feel like you have to prove your worth to someone is the moment you absolutely and utterly have to walk away.”

— Alyssia Harris

[nevver]

Jude Sutton

[theglasschild]

“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You’re doing things you’ve never done before, and more importantly, you’re Doing Something. So that’s my wish for you, and all of us, and my wish for myself. Make New Mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody’s ever made before. Don’t freeze, don’t stop, don’t worry that it isn’t good enough, or it isn’t perfect, whatever it is: art, or love, or work or family or life. Whatever it is you’re scared of doing, Do it. Make your mistakes, next year and forever.”

— Neil Gaiman

[quotemadness]

“Don’t settle for a relationship that won’t let you be yourself.”

— Oprah Winfrey

[unicornfables]

And remember to let your partner be themselves.

[quotemadness]

“I will not be another flower picked for my beauty and left to die. I will be wild, difficult to find, and impossible to forget.”

— Erin Van Vuren

[quotemadness]

“The people who believe they’ll be happy if they go and live somewhere else … learn it doesn’t work that way. Wherever you go, you take yourself with you.”

— Neil Gaiman

[quotemadness]

“I feel like I’m waiting for something that isn’t going to happen.”

— Unknown

[quotemadness]

“Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent.”

— R. D. Laing

[virginiewoolf]

Fortesa Latifi, from The Truth About Grief.

[quotemadness]

“The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.”

— Pablo Picasso

[quotemadness]

“In order to be free, we must learn how to let go. Release the hurt. Release the fear. Refuse to entertain the old pain.”

— Mary Manin Morrissey

[quotemadness]

“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

[quotemadness]

“Ever since the first day I’d seen him, none of my thoughts made sense. My entire world had turned upside-down, and I had no explanation why.”

— Michelle Madow

[thoughtkick]

“Even after all this time the sun never says to the earth, “You owe me.” Look at what happens with a love like that. It lights the whole sky.”

— Hafiz

[quotemadness]

“My alone feels so good. I’ll only have you if you’re sweeter than my solitude.”

— Warsan Shire

[theglasschild]

I am a complicated person with a simple life and I am the reason for everything that ever happened to me.

• • From Another Vagabond Lost To Love by Charlotte Eriksson ☽

[poems-and-word]