Write.✎✐ Express.

Sharing writing & poetry, including some of my own.

[freelance-philosopher]

“It is life that matters, nothing but life—the process of discovering, the everlasting and perpetual process, not the discovery itself, at all.”

— Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

[luthienne]

Sometimes I want to flee with everything I possess into a few words, seek refuge in them. But there are still no words to shelter me. That is the real problem. I am in search of a haven, yet I must first build it for myself, stone by stone. Everyone seeks a home, a refuge. And I am always in search of a few words.

Etty Hillesum, from a diary entry featured in An Interrupted Life: the Diaries, 1941-1943 and Letters from Westerbork (translated from the Dutch by Arnold J. Pomerans)

[thewanderingmillennial]

You are.

[perfeqt]

“My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts, my appearance, my talents, my flaws and to stop this incessant worrying that I can’t be loved as I am.”

— Anaïs Nin

[lilllium]

—Lilllium, from my piece This is How We Self Destruct

[1980vibes]

sometimes you just need to take a step back and realize how far you’ve come instead of how far left you have to go. you are going to mess up, and you are going to make mistakes and you aren’t always going to get it right. but, you are human. it happens. it’s okay.

[naturaekos]

“Take hold of your own life. See that the whole existence is celebrating. These trees are not serious, these birds are not serious. The rivers and the oceans are wild, and everywhere there is fun, everywhere there is joy and delight. Watch existence, listen to the existence and become part of it.”

—

[amargedom]

“Closing your eyes isn’t going to change anything. Nothing’s going to disappear just because you can’t see what’s going on.”

—

[bareniabirkin]

The theme of my adult life — didn’t get what I wanted; got something better

[quotemadness]

“Because falling’s not the problem.When I’m falling, I’m at peace. It’s only when I hit the ground, it causes all the brief.”

— Florence + The Machine

[goodreadss]

““Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.””

— Benjamin Spock (via goodreadss)

[wordsofjules]

so crucial

[amortizing]

“‘There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done. One is called yesterday and the other is called tomorrow. So today is the right day to love, believe, do and mostly love.’”

— Dalai Lama (via naturaekos)

[wordsofjules]

truu

[adrenaline]

by Jenni Konrad

[wordsofjules]

Stop the hate

[wordsofjules]

Why can't I breathe

My minds on full-speed

Wondering what to believe

Patiently waiting for the day that I leave

Patiently waiting for the day that I'm freed

- J E H -

[goodreadss]

““…and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?””

— Vincent van Gogh (via goodreadss)

[wordsofjules]

for real

[coral]

“Poetry is what gets lost in translation.”

— Robert Frost (via coral)

[sotick]

“You say you love rain, but you use an umbrella to walk under it. You say you love sun, but you seek shelter when it is shining. You say you love wind, but when it comes you close your windows. So that’s why I’m scared when you say you love me.”

— Bob Marley (via coral)

[wordsofjules]

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