“Just because you wanna do something doesn't mean you get to do it. Life is chaos, success is completely arbitrary, and confidence is everything.” — Gina Linetti, Brooklyn Nine Nine.

“Sleep heavily and know that I am here with you. The past is gone, and cannot harm you anymore. And while the future is fast coming for you, it always flinches first, and settles in as the gentle present. This now, this us, we can cope with that. We can do this together you and I.” — Welcome to Night Vale.

“Be careful that the type you think you are attracted to is not actually your wound seeking out familiar ground.” — Dr. Thema.

“What if I never wake up in the skin of the adult I prayed for when I was a child?” — Blythe Baird, from If My Body Could Speak

“Failure is not the opposite of success, it’s a part of it.” — Karamo Brown, Queer Eye.

“That's not how life works, there are no signs. Life doesn't happen to you, you make decisions. And right now, I'm deciding to move forward with my life.” — Greg Serrano, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend.

“You pile up enough tomorrows, and you’ll find you’ve collected nothing but a lot of empty yesterdays. I don’t know about you, but I’d like to make today worth remembering.” — The Music Man (dir. DaCosta / 1962).

“The first feminist gesture is to say: “Ok. They’re looking at me. But I’m looking at them.” The act of deciding to look, of deciding that the world is not defined by how people see me, but by how I see them.” — Agnès Varda.

— Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

“People aren’t badly written, people are made of specificities.” — Rachel Bloom.

— Nawal El Saadawi, Woman at Point Zero

“For what it's worth: it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. You can change or stay the same, there's no time limit, there's no rules to this thing. I hope you feel things you never felt before, I hope you see things from a different point of view, I hope you live a life you're proud of. And if you're not, I hope you have the courage to start over again.” — Eric Roth.

— ask polly: why should i keep going?

“That’s life, you have to fight for yourself and can’t let anybody tell you that you can’t do something or be something. It takes sharing your passions and talents to the right people who can support you. Those who don’t believe in you- don’t even bother sharing.” — A friend.

— Jenny Slate, Little Weirds

“September tastes of ashes. And yet it insists. Softly. But it insists” — Julia de Burgos, Song of the Simple Truth: Poems; “Autumn Psalm”

“Maybe, he thought, there aren’t any such things as good friends or bad friends - maybe there are just friends, people who stand by you when you’re hurt and who help you feel not so lonely. Maybe they’re always worth being scared for, and hoping for, and living for. Maybe worth dying for, too, if that’s what has to be. No good friends. No bad friends. Only people you want, need to be with; people who build their houses in your heart.”

“She liked to be alone; she liked to be herself;” — Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse.

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

“That’s just how it is with some lesbian children; they outgrow the names their mommas gave them, grow into something different, someone different from what anyone could have expected of them. Taking a new name is like being born all over again into who they should have been all along.” — Sweet Thing, Joy Parks

— Catherine O'Hara on Dan Levy and the love and acceptance of Schitt's Creek

“My beauty routine is more about how I feel than how it transforms me into some version of myself that I can’t keep up with.” — Tracee Ellis Ross.

— "Daylight," Taylor Swift

“You go your way, I’ll go your way too.” — Leonard Cohen, Book of Longing

“in addition to the fact that people just have different natural rhythms, a big reason why we can’t seem to go to bed as early as we “should” is that nighttime is, for many of us, our safest and most fulfilling time of day. we don’t have to work, we won’t be contacted by bosses or insurance companies or collection agencies or other suffocating life business… we’re likely only to be contacted by our friends, or by no one at all. night time is release; it’s ours. we can rest or recreate. we can do things we actually want to do. who would choose to cut that short?? just to usher in the next morning when our lives are not our own again? nighttime is precious and nothing could be more normal than the desire to embrace this”

“Hatred fills my mouth like spit.” — The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood.

“We lived, as usual, by ignoring. Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.” — The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood

“First, she cut her hair. That was one thing she didn’t want to have to think about anymore. Then she tackled the problem of trying to decide how she wanted to live and what was valuable to her. When am I happy and when am I sad and what is the difference? What do I need to know to stay alive? What is true in the world?” — Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon

“There are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely-or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands.” ― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

“Our bodies today are spread over a number of apps, each limb tended to by another wireless device, a piece of a body on the phone, a recording of a body on a website. A disembodied voice on your lover’s smart watch. The body needs to be pieced together like a puzzle across all of our appliances.” — Bogna Konior, Determination from the Outside: Stigmata, Teledildonics, and Remote Cybersex

“When I tell people oh I love you, they think it’s weird, but that’s okay. You don’t have to understand. My love is not measured in reciprocity. That’s not the way I learned love. I love you.” — Indya Moore

“What matters isn't if people are good or bad. What matters is if they're trying to be better today than they were yesterday.” — Michael, The Good Place

by healing ourselves, we heal each other by healing each other, we heal ourselves there is no space at all between my heart and yours

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