“Kill the part of you that believes it can’t survive without someone else.”
— Sade Andria Zabala
how discouraging it is to be there for everyone, but whenever you need someone, no one comes to.
You were suspicious of their feelings because you had no reason to love yourself—not your body, not your mind. You rejected so much gentleness. What were you looking for?
Carmen Maria Machado, from In the Dream House: A Memoir
“You will love again the stranger who was your self.”
— Derek Walcott
People think being alone makes you lonely, but I don’t think that’s true. Being surrounded by the wrong people is the loneliest thing in the world.
Kim Culbertson (via quotemadness)
blunder
the average person kills themselves 4 times a day
“The only thing that I regret so far in my life is the many times I looked past you, the times I only saw you as friend and not as someone who could make me unbelievably happy.”
— Unknown
“You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude towards what happens to you. And in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.”
— Brian Tracy