- Dreamer Child -

Victoria 18 | ravenclaw | infp | avid reader

[1617]

sometimes life puts you in the same situation again to see if you’re still a dumbass

[boldwordss]

Born to Die // Lana Del Rey

[theaddictspoetry]

I tried to destroy my life,

for a piece of mind I'll never find.

@theaddictspoetry

[matchadolly]

girlie that's not a random headache u are dehydrated malnourished over caffeinated over stressed and sleep deprived

[septemberkisses]

the fact that i'm no longer the same age as the protagonists of novels and films i once connected to is so heartbreaking. there was a time when I looked forward to turning their age. i did. and i also outgrew them. i continue to age, but they don't; never will. the immortality of fiction is beautiful, but cruel.

[bookpdf]

there should be more hours between 6 and 10pm. like even just two more hours. for my assorted hobbies & activities

[psychotic-gerard]

Draw badly. Write nonsensically. Embroider messily. Burn what you bake and cook. Get paint everywhere. Read half a book. Lose your mind for a bit. Plant things. Have faith in the process. Abandon 70 wood-carving projects. Get a kit and do some of it and never return to it. Get comfortable with sucking and losing motivation. Continue to create with reckless abandon.

[constellatedlove]

i love how you collect little pieces of the people you love. keep the lessons they taught you and the habits you picked up. create your own routines with theirs intertwined. watch them be passed on to another love.

[petrichor-hiraeth]

"Just because he can't love you the way you want him to doesn't mean he doesn't love you with everything he has."

~ After 2, Anna Todd

[rains-of-words]

“There’s nothing that can match the triumphant feeling of being able to do something that your past-self would never dare to do.”

— 12/18/20, anastasiasyah (via anastasiasyah)

[rains-of-words]

“Do whatever brings you to life, then. Follow your own fascinations, obsessions, and compulsions. Trust them. Create whatever causes a revolution in your heart.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear (via perfectquote)

[probablyasocialecologist]

“If the time comes, you’re going to be able to learn how to live without your car and your coffee-bean grinder. You could eventually get used to a life in which you didn’t give orders. You could even get used to doing your share of the irreducible minimum of unpleasant labor that happens to be necessary to maintain the processes of life on which we all now depend. Vegetables must be grown in the countryside, and there are parts of the process of farming that can’t be done by machines and that no one likes to do, and, in the cities, people have to crawl down under the streets to maintain the sewers, and in a more just world, the work that absolutely no one wants to do would probably have to be shared, with every able-bodied person doing some of it each week or each month, and so one of the people who’d be doing it would sometimes be you, and after a while you’d be quite all right with that. And yes, you’d have to live in a smaller apartment. Maybe a much, much smaller apartment, but if all went well, you’d still be able to read, cook, and play music, and after a while you might come to feel that it really wasn’t that bad.”

— Wallace Shawn, Night Thoughts

[rains-of-words]

“Going after a dream has a price. It may mean abandoning our habits, it may make us go through hardships, or it may lead us to disappointment. But however costly it may be, it is never as high as the price paid by people who didn’t live.”

— Paul Coelho (via quotemadness)

[thoughtsandwordsss]

“There’s a difference between getting older and growing up.”

- unknown

[thestudyfeels]

small things that will change your life -

complimenting at least one person a day

looking after yourself by actually scheduling it into your day

making time to talk to friends/fam

looking at the bright side of things

finding productive things to do when you’re free instead of mindlessly scrolling through social media

getting a hobby that engages you and helps you relax

stretching and meditating

taking care of your skin

smiling more

doing more of what you love doing

exercising more

being in nature often

hydrating and moisturizing

taking long walks

going to concerts, parks and museums

reading interesting books

petting smol animals

being yourself for u are amazing and deserve a star (✨)

[adderalldust]

“I shouldn’t have to be a liar to make someone love me. I shouldn’t be so afraid of losing someone that I’ll do anything to make them stay.”

— Deb Caletti, The Six Rules of Maybe (via simply-quotes)

[michaelbogild-deactivated202503]

100 motivational quotes by the legend that is Toni Robbins

1. “The only thing that’s keeping you from getting what you want is the story you keep telling yourself.” 2. “If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you’ll achieve the same results.” 3. “Your past does not equal your future.” 4. “Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards.” 5. “Goals are like magnets. They’ll attract the things that make them come true.” 6. “Where focus goes, energy flows.” 7. “People who fail focus on what they have to go through; people who succeed focus on what it will feel like at the end.” 8. “In life you need either inspiration or desperation.” 9. “Identify your problems, but give your power and energy to solutions.” 10. “If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten.” 11. “Persistence overshadows even talent as the most valuable resource shaping the quality of life.” 12. “It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.” 13. “Every problem is a gift–without problems we would not grow.” 14. “The path to success is to take massive, determined action.” 15. “Most people fail in life because they major in minor things.” 16. “I believe life is constantly testing us for our level of commitment, and life’s greatest rewards are reserved for those who demonstrate a never-ending commitment to act until they achieve. This level of resolve can move mountains, but it must be constant 17. “You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.” 18. “If you talk about it, it’s a dream. If you envision it, it’s possible. If you schedule it, it’s real.” 19. “Focus on where you want to go, not on what you fear.” 20. “In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It’s not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.” 21. "If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten.” 22. I believe life is constantly testing us for our level of commitment, and life’s greatest rewards are reserved for those who demonstrate a never-ending commitment to act until they achieve. This level of resolve can move mountains, but it must be constant and consistent. As simplistic as this may sound, it is still the common denominator separating those who live their dreams from those who live in regret. 23. “People are not lazy, they simply have impotent goals..that is..goals that do not inspire them.” 24. “When you are grateful, fear disappears and abundance appears.” 25. “It is your decisions, and not your conditions, that determine your destiny.” 26. “When you are grateful, fear disappears and abundance appears.” 27. “Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers.” 28. “The power of positive thinking is the ability to generate a feeling of certainty in yourself when nothing in the environment supports you.” 29. “If you can’t, you must. If you must, you can.” 30. “It’s what you practice in private that you will be rewarded for in public.” 31. “Leaders spend 5 percent of their time on the problem & 95 percent of their time on the solution. Get over it & crush it!” 32. “Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.” 33. “Our beliefs about what we are and what we can be precisely determine what we can be” 34. “You can’t have a plan for your day, ‘til you have a plan for your life.” 35. “You become what you do most of the time.” 36. “Success in life is the result of good judgment. Good judgment is usually the result of experience. Experience is usually the result of bad judgment.” 37. “Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach.” 38. “Its not about the goal. Its about growing to become the person that can accomplish that goal.” 39. You and I can make our lives one of these legendary inspirations, as well, simply by having courage and the awareness that we can control whatever happens in our lives. Although we cannot always control the events in our lives, we can always control our response to them, and the actions we take as a result. 40. We’ve all heard about people who’ve exploded beyond the limitations of their conditions to become examples of the unlimited power of the human spirit. 41. “How am I going to live today to create the tomorrow I’ve committed to?” 42. “Success is buried on the other side of rejection.” 43. If there’s anything you’re not happy about–in your relationships, in your health, in your career–make a decision right now about how you’re going to change it immediately. 44. “To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.” 45. “If you don’t set a baseline standard for what you’ll accept in life, you’ll find it’s easy to slip into behaviours and attitudes or a quality of life that’s far below what you deserve.” 46. “It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute … that gives meaning to our lives.” 47. “Enjoy making decisions. You must know that in any moment a decision you make can change the course of your life forever: the very next person you stand behind in line or sit next to on an airplane, the very next phone call you make or receive, the very next movie you see or book you read or page you turn could be the one single thing that causes the floodgates to open, and all of the things that you’ve been waiting for to fall into place. If you really want your life to be passionate, you need to live with this attitude of expectancy.” 48. “The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you’re in control of your life. If you don’t, life controls you.” 49. Focus equals feeling. 50. “You are now at a crossroads. This is your opportunity to make the most important decision you will ever make. Forget your past. Who are you now? Who have you decided you really are now? Don’t think about who you have been. Who are you now? Who have you decided to become? Make this decision consciously. Make it carefully. Make it powerfully. 51. “in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know.” 52. “The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.” 53. “One belief that I’ve developed to carry me through extremely tough times is simply this: God’s delays are not God’s denials.” 54. Many people say, “Well, I’d love to make a decision like that, but I’m not sure how I could change my life.” They’re paralyzed by the fear that they don’t know exactly how to turn their dreams into reality. And as a result, they never make the decisions that could make their lives into the masterpieces they deserve to be. I’m here to tell you that it’s not important initially to know how you’re going to create a result. What’s important is to decide you will find a way, no matter what. 55. “There are no real successes without rejection. The more rejection you get, the better you are, the more you’ve learned, the closer you are to your outcome… If you can handle rejection, you’ll learn to get everything you want.” 56. “It’s not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.” 57. “Remember: we all get what we tolerate. So stop tolerating excuses within yourself, limiting beliefs of the past, or half-assed or fearful states. Use your body as a tool to snap yourself into a place of sheer will, determination, and commitment. Face your challenges head on with the core belief that problems are just speed bumps on the road to your dreams. And from that place, when you take massive action—with an effective and proven strategy—you will rewrite your history.” 58. “The birth of excellence begins with our awareness that our beliefs are a choice. We usually don’t think of it that way, but belief can be a conscious choice. You can choose beliefs that limit you, or you can choose beliefs that support you. The trick is to choose the beliefs that are conducive to success and the results you want and to discard the ones that hold you back.” 59. “Anytime you have difficulty making an important decision, you can be sure that it’s the result of being unclear about your values.” 60. “three decisions that we all control each moment of our lives: what to focus on, what things mean, and what to do in spite of the challenges that may appear to limit us.” 61. “Remember: we’re drowning in information, but we’re starving for wisdom.” 62. “You shape your perceptions, or someone shapes them for you. You do what you want to do, or you respond to someone else’s plan for you.” 63. “Goals are like magnets. They’ll attract the things that make them come true.” 64. “Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change any and every part of your life in an instant.” 66. “Achievers rarely, if ever, see a problem as permanent, while those who fail see even the smallest problems as permanent.” 67. “Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don’t try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.” 68. “In reality, at the time I was being incredibly negative and seeing things worse than they were. I was using my pessimism as a shield. It was my feeble attempt at protecting myself from the pain of failed expectations: I’d do anything to keep from being disappointed once again. But in adopting this pattern, this same barrier that kept me out of pain also kept me out of pleasure. It barred me from solutions and sealed me in a tomb of emotional death where one never experiences too much pain or too much pleasure, and where one continuously justifies one’s limited actions by stating they’re “just being realistic.” 69. “1. What do I really want? (Vision.) 2. What is important about it? (Values.) 3. How will I get it? (Methods.) 4. What is preventing me from having it? (Obstacles.) 5. How will I know I am successful? (Measurements.)” 70. “most fears in life rarely come to fruition.” 71. “Any pattern of emotion or behavior that is continually reinforced will become an automatic and conditioned response. Anything we fail to reinforce will eventually dissipate.” 72. “Understanding state is the key to understanding change and achieving excellence. Our behavior is the result of the state we’re in.” 73. “Deciding to commit yourself to long term results rather than short term fixes is as important as any decision you’ll make in your lifetime.” 74. “The truth of the matter is that there’s nothing you can’t accomplish if: 1) You clearly decide what it is that you’re absolutely committed to achieving, 2) You are willing to take massive action, 3) You notice what’s working or not, and 4) You continue to change your approach until you achieve what you want, using whatever life gives you along the way.” 75. “Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.” 76. “My teacher Jim Rohn taught me a simple principle: every day, stand guard at the door of your mind, and you alone decide what thoughts and beliefs you let into your life. For they will shape whether you feel rich or poor, cursed or blessed.” 77. “Making a true decision means committing to achieving a result, and then cutting yourself off from any other possibility.” 78. “Realize that you may have misinterpreted the situation completely, that your anger about this person breaking your rules may be based on the fact that they don’t know what’s most important to you (even though you believe they should).” 79. “The three decisions that control your destiny are: 1. Your decisions about what to focus on. 2. Your decisions about what things mean to you. 3. Your decisions about what to do to create the results you desire.” 80. “many of the most famous people in our culture have achieved their dreams but have still not found a way to enjoy them. They often turn to drugs because they feel unfulfilled. This is because they are missing the distinction between achieving one’s goals and living one’s values,” 81. “Which do you tend to focus on more—what you have or what’s missing from your life?” 82. “Making a true decision, unlike saying, “I’d like to quit smoking,” is cutting off any other possibility. In fact, the word “decision” comes from the Latin roots de, which means “from,” and caedere, which means “to cut.” Making a true decision means committing to achieving a result, and then cutting yourself off from any other possibility. When you truly decide you’ll never smoke cigarettes again, that’s it. It’s over! You no longer even consider the possibility of smoking.” 83. “If you don’t plant the mental and physiological seeds of the results you want, weeds will grow automatically. If we don’t consciously direct our own minds and states, our environment may produce undesirable haphazard states. The results can be disastrous. Thus it’s critical that—on a daily basis—we stand guard at the door of our mind, that we know how we are consistently representing things to ourselves. We must daily weed our garden.” 84. “The person who is motivated by necessity is interested in what’s known and what’s secure. The person who is motivated by possibility is equally interested in what’s not known. He wants to know what can evolve, what opportunities might develop.”