"You don’t need to be better than any one else you just need to be better than you used to be.”

"Do not define your identity based on the lowest points in your life.”

"If you truly love Nature, you will find beauty everywhere.”

“Enjoy the little things in life, for one day you’ll look back and realize they were big things.”

“Privacy is golden. What people don’t know, people can’t ruin.”

"However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself. Never give it all. You can never be yourself otherwise.”

"Not everything you do needs to be seen, heard or discussed.”

"No one is ever too busy, it’s about priorities.”

"People too often forget that it is your own choice how you want to spend the rest of your life.”

"Pay attention to whom your energy increases and decreases around, because that’s the universe giving you a hint of who you should embrace or stray from.”

"When a person tells you you hurt them, you don’t get to decide you didn’t.”

"There is no such thing as a ridiculous or silly trigger. You are not ridiculous or silly for avoiding things that distress you. Your triggers are valid and you deserve to be able to protect yourself without being bullied and harassed. You deserve safety."

"If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.”

“Painful feelings are, by their very nature, temporary. They will weaken over time as long as we don’t prolong or amplify them through resistance or avoidance. The only way to eventually free ourselves from debilitating pain, therefore, is to be with it as it is. The only way out is through.”

"You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no result.”

"It’s okay to live a life others don’t understand.”

"most of the time we're just doing our situational best. Remember that when you look back with hindsight"

wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are

Just because we cannot always see the stars does not mean that they aren’t there. Sight and truth are two separate things. The biggest of dreams or the deepest of loves can exist without ever have being seen.

normalize luxury in your life. suffering is not an achievement.

“At the end of the day, people will let you down, they will label you as something you are not, it is all to make them feel better, it is about them not you.”

If you were actually "just being lazy", then it wouldn't bother you this much that you're not doing what you're supposed to do. Being lazy is comfortable. Struggling to get something done is very different from not caring to do it.

reasons people might be looking at you in public (that aren’t negative)

they like what you’re wearing. you look like someone they know. they recognize a piece of clothing or accessory you’re wearing. they think you’re beautiful or attractive. they’re zoned out / bored and people-watching. they recognize you from somewhere. they’re hesitating to ask you something or give you a compliment. they’ve seen you in that same place before. you caught their eye. you look like how they imagined a fictional character to look. you remind them of something. they’re admiring one of your visual qualities (smile, stance, hairstyle).

Your struggles matter even if other people are struggling more. Your victories matter even if other people are achieving more. Life is not a competition and your individual journey is important and valid no matter what other people are doing and experiencing.

you are allowed to want attention and that does not make you a bad person.

IF YOU CANT HANDLE ME AT MY WORST, JUST REMEMBER THAT I HANDLE ME AT MY WORST AND THAT MAKES ME STRONGER THAN YOU

instead of thinking “i should be healthier/more organized/etc,” change your phrasing to “i’d like to become healthier” or “i’d like to learn to be more organized.” stop paralyzing urself with guilt for what you aren’t & start focusing on what you can be

“You don’t have to defend or explain your decisions to anyone. It’s your life. Live it without apologies.”

“We often want it so badly that we ruin it before it begins. Overthinking. Fantasizing. Imagining. Expecting. Worrying. Doubting. Just let it naturally evolve.”

why limit yourself between choosing between a pretty feminine aesthetic or a dark one? if persephone can be the goddess of spring & queen of the underworld at the same time so can you

There’s always something good coming. Remember that.

"life is tough, but so are you"

"Be an encourager. The world has plenty of critics already.”

"Take a lot of pictures, you’ll only regret the ones that you didn’t take.”

"Be strong, but not rude. Be kind, but not weak. Be humble, but not timid. Be proud, but not arrogant.”

"Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.”

"Sometimes not telling people anything is a good thing.”

"I told her once I wasn’t good at anything. She told me survival is a talent.”

"Always help someone. You might be the only one that does.”

"Let your past be your armor.”

"for you to insult me I must first value your opinion"

"do no harm but take no shit"

"You dont have to attend every argument youre invited to.”

"Comparison is an act of violence against the self.”

"Falling in love with yourself first doesn’t make you vain or selfish, it makes you indestructible.”

"Of all the things I am not very good at, living in the real world is perhaps the most outstanding.”

• "You should not have to rip yourself into pieces to keep others whole.”
• "If you repeatedly criticize someone for liking something you don’t, they won’t stop liking it. They’ll stop liking you.”
• "You don’t owe prettiness to anyone. Not to your boyfriend/spouse/partner, not to your co-workers, especially not to random men on the street. You don’t owe it to your mother, you don’t owe it to your children, you don’t owe it to civilization in general. Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked ‘female’.”
• "I don’t fear commitment. I fear wasting my time.”
• "Tomorrow could be the someday you’ve been waiting for.”
• "Being brave doesn’t mean you aren’t scared. Being brave means you are scared, really scared, badly scared, and you do the right thing anyway.”
• "This is what I like about photographs. They’re proof that once, even if just for a heartbeat, everything was perfect.”
• "Once you’ve accepted your flaws, no one can use them against you.”
• "Girls do not dress for boys. They dress for themselves, and of course, for each other. If girls dressed for boys they’d just walk around naked all the time.”
• "Just because one person’s problem is less traumatic than another’s doesn’t mean they’re required to hurt less.”
• "Do not let the behaviour of others destroy your inner peace”
• "Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.”
• "If you want to learn what someone fears losing, watch what they photograph.”
• "If you want to kill yourself, kill what you don’t like. I had an old self that I killed. You can kill yourself too, but that doesn’t mean you got to stop living.”
• "You’re not really an adult at all. You’re just a tall child holding a beer, having a conversation you don’t understand.”
• "Two things define you. Your patience when you have nothing, and your attitude when you have everything.”
• "Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.”
• "If you’re going through hell, keep going.”
• "Just remember that sometimes, the way you think about a person isn’t the way they actually are.”
• "it was probably nothing, but it felt like the world"
• "Just because your pain is understandable, doesn’t mean your behaviour is acceptable."
• "You are so used to your features, you don’t know how beautiful you look to a stranger."
• "the first step towards confidence is not being afraid to be ugly, once you get over the fear of being unattractive and stop equating beauty with other good things in life (friends, love, happiness) it’s a lot easier to love yourself unconditionally. Your job is not to sit around and be pretty and easy on everyone else’s eyes, your job is to do whatever the fuck you want and look however the fuck you want while doing it."
• "Realize that anyone who tries to put you down about your appearance is assuming that it is your job to please them visually. Once you realize that it isn’t your job to be visually pleasing to anyone, ever, it becomes very hard for anyone to make you feel bad about yourself."
• ❝stay close to anything that makes you glad you're alive❞
• "you are not a drop in the ocean, you are the entire ocean in a drop"
• "a photograph is looked at, seldom looked in to"
• "However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself. Never give it all. You can never be yourself otherwise."
• "compare yourself only to your previous self"
• "If you lose someone but find yourself, you won."
• "We all have one foot in a fairytale, and the other in the abyss"
• "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."
• "be the love you never received"
• "the nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised."
• "You don’t need to be better than any one else you just need to be better than you used to be."
• "Make sure you don’t start seeing yourself through the eyes of those who don’t value you. Know your worth even if they don’t."
• "Just because you took longer than others doesn’t mean you failed."
• “You should never have to look for evidence that someone loves you. True love is crystal clear.”
• “Don’t quit now, youre already in pain. You’re already hurt, get a reward from it. Success is a lot closer than you think.”

forget the past. remember the lesson

• "Don’t lose yourself while caring for others. The most important relationship is the one you have with yourself.”
• "If you truly love Nature, you will find beauty everywhere.”
• "Life is only as good as your mindset”
• Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.