“I’m almost never serious, and I’m always too serious. Too deep, too shallow. Too sensitive, too cold hearted. I’m like a collection of paradoxes.”
— Ferdinand de Saussure
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a gentle reminder that you did well this year. you met new people, learned new things and felt new feelings. you did so many things that made you scared. you picked yourself up off the floor after feeling completely defeated or heartbroken. there were some really tough nights but you survived them all. you made people happy just by existing. you accepted many goodbyes but the serendipitous meetings made up for them. it was your own hard work that paid off but you always downplay it or compare yourself to others. that’s not fair on yourself. you’ve come so far from the first day of this year. you have more wisdom and strength now. yes, other people seem more “successful” but does that even matter? please don’t think so lowly of yourself to only think about your failures. 2018 was your year of growth. I hope you take a moment to be kind to yourself, and believe that 2019 will be even better.
“You can’t stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.”
— A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
(via books-n-quotes)
gentle reminder
there are some days where it feels like getting out of bed is impossible, and that’s okay – please try your best to understand yourself, instead of tearing yourself apart for that; just try your best, even to do the smallest thing like sit up or take a shower, and be proud of yourself for that, because those things are amazing
“All children should be loved, protected, nurtured – emotionally and intellectually – respected, and never, under any circumstances, underestimated.”
— Augusten Burroughs, This Is How (via quotespile)
things we love to read
- clever girls with knives
- intense and complicated friendships
- coats with deep magical pockets
- sentient libraries
- fairy tale retellings but queer
- antiheroes taking a moment for tea and a nap
- anxious ghosts just Doing Their Best
Praying for the woman I’ll be in 5+yrs I hope she’s happy, and loved, living life unapologetically, doing what she loves.
the older i get the more it’s clear that being smart doesn’t get you very far if you’re not disciplined. there are tons of people who are brilliant but not disciplined. they have amazing ideas but cannot finish a project. they are creative and innovative but cannot execute a plan. i see how important it is to set deadlines and boundaries for myself an to be disciplined.
Really, if you don’t have the (1)discipline and (2)initiative to put your ideas into action, ideas are all they will ever be.