When asked to name the one person absent from her life that she missed the most, she responded, "The person I hoped I'd be by this point in my life."
I am a wandering soul, trapped in a girl.
wanting to give all the love she’s got
and prove to the world what she is not
for she knows not what she is
she has no path, no passion to practice
I want to fly free
but this world has got me
stuck on the ground
sick of running around
in mental circles
wearing myself down
“Each time I told my story, I lost a bit, the smallest drop of pain. It was that day that I knew I wanted to tell the story of my family. Because horror on Earth is real and it is every day. It is like a flower or like the sun; it cannot be contained.”
The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold
“You can love someone so much, he thought. But you can never love people as much as you can miss them.” - An Abundance of Katherines (John Green)
Those who leap for the sky may fall, it’s true.
But they may also fly.
“I’m not brave any more darling. I’m all broken. They’ve broken me.”
Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
“Look for the remedy inside the pain.
because the rose came from the thorn
and the ruby came from a stone.’”
Rumi (via thelittlephilosopher)
Research by NASA shows that an afternoon nap (between 1pm and 3pm) improves decision making by 50% and productivity by 35%.
Prophet Muhammed said something similar to this, over 1400 years ago.
“We are the girls with anxiety disorders, filled appointment books, five-year plans. We take ourselves very, very seriously. We are the peacemakers, the do-gooders, the givers, the savers. We are on time, overly prepared, well read, and witty, intellectually curious, always moving… We pride ourselves on getting as little sleep as possible and thrive on self-deprivation. We drink coffee, a lot of it. We are on birth control, Prozac, and multivitamins… We are relentless, judgmental with ourselves, and forgiving to others. We never want to be as passive-aggressive as our mothers, never want to marry men as uninspired as our fathers… We are the daughters of the feminists who said, “You can be anything,” and we heard, “You have to be everything.”
Courtney Martin (via micaceous)
