Brianna Bellinato

Keep me sane & i'll keep you wild

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[deceptivelips]

“Don’t think about what can happen in a month. Don’t think about what can happen in a year. Just focus on the 24 hours in front of you and do what you can to get closer to where you want to be”

— Eric Thomas (via deceptivelips)

[goodreadss]

When you’re struggling with something, look at all the people around you and realize that every single person you see is struggling with something.

(via goodreadss)

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[thegoodvybe]

[goodreadss]

It is always important to know when something has reached its end. Closing circles, shutting doors, finishing chapters, it doesn’t matter what we call it; what matters is to leave in the past those moments in life that are over.

(via goodreadss)

[homietwt]

[homietwt]

[goodreadss]

“Sometimes what you’re most afraid of doing is the very thing that will set you free.”

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[goodreadss]

“I didn’t realize it, but the days came along one after another, and then two years were gone, and everything was gone, and I was gone.”

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[skinhorses]

on trauma:

1. “and I never knew survival was like that. If you live, you look back and beg for it again, the hazardous bliss before you knew what you would miss.” (ada limón, from “before”)

2. “The consistency of hurt is what makes it so comforting.” (william nu’utupu giles, from “what do you want? it’s not that simple”)

3. “A child weaned on poison considers harm a comfort.” (gillian flynn, from “sharp objects”)

4. “When you’ve had a bad experience, you sometimes feel compelled to recreate it in a way that allows you to control it. It’s like you’re attracted to the very thing that bothered you because you’re not done with it- you need to fix that moment so you can move forward. Oscar Wilde said, ‘a burnt child loves fire.’ For me, that means being able to explore things that have been traumatic or you’re not so sure about. The sources of terror in childhood can become the sources of attraction in adulthood.” (todd hido, from “on landscapes, interiors, and the nude”)

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(ingmar bergman)

6. “This body knows fear like a front porch knows welcome—it is always coming home.” (brenna twohy, from “swallowtail”)

7. “I liked Hell. I like to go there alone relieved to lie in the wreckage, ruined, physically undone. The worst had happened. What else could hurt me then? I thought it was the worst, thought nothing worse would come. The nothing did, and no one.” (marie howe, from “magdalene: the addict)

[heartshop]

Ellen Bass, ‘The Thing Is’

[hplyrikz]

“Learn to be alone and to like it. There’s nothing more freeing and empowering than learning to like your own company.”

— Mandy Hale (via hplyrikz)

Clear your mind here

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“It was good for a while, being empty. I didn’t hurt anymore. But as time went on, it was like I could hear myself from far away, begging for permission to come back.”

— Myra McEntire (via quotemadness)

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