“Integrity is choosing courage over comfort; choosing what is right over what is fun, fast, or easy; and choosing to practice our values rather than simply professing them.” Brene Brown”
1. You’ve got to believe in the poetry because everything else in your life will fail you, including yourself.
2. It’s so weird to think that, like, no matter what happens, the universe is just out here giving, like zero fucks
3.Without the self-criticism, I’d be lost.
4. Real love is when you can’t exist without someone, when you’d rather die than be apart, and the whole world goes dark, and nothing else matters but the person standing in front of you.
5. It’s not even the lies that hurt, you know? It’s the fact that you’re never really emotionally prepared for someone to leave you
6. I feel like I’ve found, like, this amazing balance where I’m like happy and healthy and I’m not looking to anybody else for that happiness, you know?
7. Sometimes two people in the universe who aren’t meant for each other find each other.
8. Everything’s that good to you ain’t always good for you
9. If I could be a different person, I promise you, I would. Not cause I want it, but cause they do.
10. Maybe people are nostalgic about high school because its the last time they can dream.
11. She hated her life, not because it was bad, but because when you hate your brain and your body, it’s hard to enjoy the rest.
12. You are my everything. Any moment with you is my favourite.
13. And everything stops: your heart, your lungs, then finally, your brain. And everything you feel and wish and want to forget, It all just sinks. And then suddenly, you give It air again, give It life again.
14. All I know is, life is not a Nicholas Sparks novel.
15. I spent my whole life afraid people were going to find out that I was fat. But honestly, who gives a shit.
16. Its like love is super dark and no one ever talks about it.
17. The absolute worst part of depression is that even though you know you’re depressed, you’re unable to stop yourself from getting worse
18. Real life is always such a let down
19. I think I want to be as beautiful as the ocean
20. I had a therapist once who said that these states will wax and wane. Which gave my mother relief, because it meant that in the bad times, there would be good times. But it also gave her anxiety because it meant that in the good times, there would be bad times.
can’t get over the oldest living olive tree being over 4000 years old. imagine someone in 200 bc being like look at this old tree. so many living breathing people existed before us and they had lives just like ours and they lived in the same world we live in, only younger. if you stop for a second and close your eyes and listen you can hear what they heard. someone looked at this tree when it was just a sprout. someone ate the first olive from it. and then 2000 years later someone else thinks the very same thing
