“But never have I been a calm blue sea. I have always been a storm.”
Stevie Nicks, “Storms,” Tusk
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“i want to be soft as daybreak. i want to set the world on fire and be told i’m beautiful, instead of just destructive.”
— sun over the mountains // (h.q.)
You get a strange feeling when you’re about to leave a place. Like you’ll not only miss the people you love but you’ll miss the person you are now at this time and this place, because you’ll never be this way ever again.
Azar Nafisi (via quotemadness)
“Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet.”
— Stephen Hawking (1942 – 2018)
For years mental health professionals taught people that they could be psychologically healthy without social support, that ‘unless you love yourself, no one else will love you’ …The truth is, you cannot love yourself unless you have been loved and are loved. The capacity to love cannot be built in isolation.
Home is not where you were born; home is where all your attempts to escape cease.
original: “وطن المرء ليس مكان ولادته و لكنه المكان الذي تنتهي فيه كل محاولاته للهروب”
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Take a shower, wash off the day. Drink a glass of water. Make the room dark. Lie down and close your eyes.
Notice the silence. Notice your heart. Still beating. Still fighting. You made it, after all. You made it, another day. And you can make it one more.
You’re doing just fine.
He licked his lips. ‘Well, if you want my opinion–’
‘I don’t,’ she said. ‘I have my own.’
Maybe happiness is this: not feeling like you should be elsewhere, doing something else, being someone else.
Isaac Asimov (via godzillanevertalks)
It’s a funny thing about coming home. Looks the same, smells the same, feels the same. You’ll realize what’s changed is you.
Nothing but My Aching Soul 