Have I Endured Loneliness With Grace?

I don't really need a reason to feel sad..

I don't really need a reason to feel happy..

I don't really need a person to feel romantic about..

I don't really need to have fought to be angry...

I don't really need an exam to feel anxious...

No, it's all on its own, all by itself.

“When you stop talking to people, stop talking about them too.”

— arabwife (via meineluft)

I will not have you without the darkness that hides within you. I will not let you have me without the madness that makes me. If our demons cannot dance, neither can we.

— Nikita Gill

“Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one’s self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily.”

– Thomas Szasz

“I can’t change where I come from or what I’ve been through, so why should I be ashamed of what makes me, me?”

— Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give

“Start now. Start where you are. Start with fear. Start with pain. Start with doubt. Start with hands shaking. Start with voice trembling but start. Start and don’t stop. Start where you are, with what you have. Just… start.”

— Ijeoma Umebinyuo

Shall I stop living or what? Coz lately I have been regretting every move of mine!

“If nothing else, one day you can look someone straight in the eyes and say ‘But I lived through it. And it made me who I am today.”

— Iain Thomas, I Wrote This For You (via meineluft)

“She remembered who she was and the game changed.”

— Lalah Deliah

“I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a desire to enjoy (or savor) the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.”

— E.B. White (via surqrised)