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- "To me it’s a very breathing, living thing that someone invites into their house, kind of like a pet, and they can interact with the record when they’re in different moods, or different times of their lives. Maybe for months they can skip over one song as soon as it starts – something about it just annoys them – and then one day, when the time is right, that song just becomes the exact thing they need, and all of a sudden they’re like, ‘Wow, I never used to like this and now I love it.’ Another song they used to really like, maybe they never ever want to hear it again, you know; ‘I’ve taken all the nutrients from it and it’s got nothing left for me.’ I like that. That’s what music is to me, it’s almost like food – like a supplement or something." — Regina Spektor
- "Glory be to the girl who goes back for her body." — Dominique Christina, Star Gazer
- "It took many years of vomiting up all the filth I’d been taught about myself, and half-believed, before I was able to walk on this earth as though I had a right to be here." — James Baldwin
- "If someone treats you badly recognize that there is something wrong with them, not you. Normal people do not go around destroying other people."
- "Come with all your shame, come with your swollen heart, I’ve never seen anything more beautiful than you." — Warsan Shire
- "Just because someone desires you, it does not mean that they value you. Read it over. Again. Let those words resonate in your mind." — Nayyirah Waheed
- "The secret to letting go is the realization that the object of attachment (sadness, fear, wealth, people) was never a part of you. You may have held it close, but it was always outside of *you*. Therefore letting go of that object of attachment will not break you because you existed as a whole before the object. And you will exist as a whole after the object is gone." — Yasmin Mogahed
- "The hardship comes *with* the ease. But there’s more. Had it not been for the hardship, you wouldn’t even recognize the ease. If you never knew pain, you couldn’t experience pleasure." — Yasmin Mogahed
- "How someone reacts to your sadness says a lot about how long they’re going to be in your life." — S.Z. // Vodka thoughts #15
- "Repeat after me: I am not a problem to be solved. Repeat after me: I am worthy I am worthy I am neither the mistake nor the punishment." — Sierra DeMulder
- "I will no longer allow anyone to manipulate my mind and control my life in the name of love." — Don Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
- "I cannot be violated, I cannot be humiliated, I cannot be disregarded. I cannot be disrespected, I respect myself & believe in what I’m doing, no one can touch me." — Fiona Apple
- "Don’t let your fear of being alone trick you into thinking that you’re in love."
- "Suicidal feelings are not the same as giving up on life. Suicidal feelings often express a powerful and overwhelming need for a different life. Suicidal feelings can mean, in a desperate and unyielding way, a demand for something new. Listen to someone who is suicidal and you often hear a need for change so important, so indispensable, that they would rather die than go on living without the change. And when the person feels powerless to make that change happen, they become suicidal. Help comes when the person identifies the change they want and starts to believe it can actually happen. Whether it is overcoming an impossible family situation, making a career or study change, standing up to an oppressor, gaining relief from chronic physical pain, igniting creative inspiration, feeling less alone, or beginning to value their self worth, at the root of suicidal feelings is often powerlessness to change your life – not giving up on life itself." — Will Hall
- "I am homesick for a place I am not sure even exists. One where my heart is full. My body loved. And my soul understood."
oct 16 2016 ∞
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