Latest Posts by ace-with-anxiety - Page 7

One person can make a difference, and everyone should try.

J.F.K. (via infj-misc)

If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.

C.S. Lewis (via infj-misc)

Normal - nor·mal /ˈnôrməl/adjective

A state of being that fails to create new experiences or opportunities. Normal doesn’t have the capability to change the world. Normality is the absence of variations which create interest.

I don’t have an inner voice, I have 3 inner voices. One that says what I’m really thinking, one that calls me stupid for thinking that and one that tries to explain my point of view.

I am simultaneously the most emotional / least emotional person I know.

She was becoming herself… casting aside the fictitious self which she assumed like a garment to appear before the world.

Kate Chopin (via infj-misc)

It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.

Buddha (via infj-misc)

Who has not asked himself at some time or other: am I a monster or is this what it means to be a person?

Clarice Lispector (via remnantsofapoet)

I am jealous of those who think more deeply, who write better, who draw better, who ski better, who look better, who live better, who love better than I.

Sylvia Plath (via infj-misc)

Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.

C.S. Lewis (via logicsensi)

Everything changes when you start to emit your own frequency rather than absorbing the frequencies around you, when you start imprinting your intent on the universe rather than receiving an imprint from existence.

Barbara Marciniak (via infj-misc)

Admit it. You aren’t like them. You’re not even close….. You may occasionally dress yourself up as one of them, watch the same mindless television shows as they do, maybe even eat the same fast food sometimes. But, it seems that the more you try to fit in, the more you feel like an outsider, watching the “normal people” as they go about their automatic existences. Every time you say club passwords like “Have a nice day” and “Weather’s awful today, eh?”, you yearn inside to say, “Tell me something that makes you cry.” or “What do you think deja vu is for?” …..Find the others

Timothy Leary (via infj-misc)

The pioneers of a warless world are the young men who refuse military service.

Albert Einstein (via infj-misc)

I’m going to tell you what a demon once told me: It is okay to want your own happiness. It’s okay to care about yourself the most. It’s okay to do what’s healthy for YOU. When someone hits you, it’s okay to hit back and then ask them what the hell they expected. It’s okay. You are not obligated to sit there and smile and swallow every bit of shit everyone heaps on you. You are more than furniture, you’re more than window dressing, you’re not their shiny toy. You’re human, and you have the right to say ‘That was shitty of you.’ You have a right to say ‘Let me feed that back to you; tell me, how does it taste?’ You have a right to protest your own mistreatment and set boundaries for respectful interactions. The rest of the world doesn’t realize you have this right, and they will act offended and appalled when you exercise it, but it is yours.

Sonneillon V. (via infj-misc)

It’s easy to grow fond of the sketchy outline of a person, and fill in what you don’t yet know.

Then it’s hard to find what to do with that rolling energy.

Feeling heard alleviates tangled emotions for me. I often don’t need an action taken, just to feel heard, so that I can move on from the feeling.

It’s unfortunate that the idea of things is often much more appealing than the reality of doing them. (And that I often don’t realize that until I’ve said I’ve committed to doing the thing.)

Small talk is varying degrees of enjoyable to terribly draining depending on the person it’s with. People that like to hear their own voices but, also want to be certain they have your attention are the most tiring I find.

Being able to name the thing makes it so much easier to deal with.

Life things are tiring.

“Sleep on it” is advice I don’t like because it feels too passive (you mean, do nothing???) but is often very important to do.

When moving away from something, anything is an upgrade, which makes it hard to tell what you actually want. 

Thanks, brain, for all those reminders about things I never forget.