Stay Brave and Beautiful

flowerais:

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.

(via wirginia-voolf)

neoyorzapoteca:

“This is what you shall do: Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body.”

— Walt Whitman, preface to the 1855 Leaves of Grass
(via ecrituria)

cwote:

inkskinned:

when someone loves you - really loves you - treat them gently. text your best friend back when you can. tell your mother you noticed her haircut and that she was right about that recipe. tell your grandfather that the boats in his bottles are the best things you’ve ever seen. be good to the people who are good to you. it’s the least you can do.

This post makes me feel warm :)

(Source: inkskinned, via findingpeaceinquotes)

violentwavesofemotion:

“I am what I am, and nothing, nothing, nothing, can do away with the past.”

— Jean Ingelow, from Selected Poems; “Perdita,” written c. September 1858

violentwavesofemotion:

“I’m an idealist at heart, and I’d like to believe that people can be good. I write a lot about overcoming things and fighting on. That’s important, too, to not give in to the darkness. I try and be an idealist most of the time, but the world just drags you right back down.”

— Chelsea Wolfe, from an interview conducted by Eugene Rabkin c. 2015

violentwavesofemotion:

“I want nothing for myself, except to touch the fingers of the girl I love – they hold the greatest secret of the world.”

— Nâzım Hikmet, tr. by Randy Blasing, from “This Thing Called Prague,”