“I crave space. It charges my batteries. It helps me breathe. Being around people can be so exhausting, because most of them love to take and barely know how to give. Except for a rare few.”
(Source: onlinecounsellingcollege)
“I do my thing, and you do your thing. I am not in this world to live up to your expectations, and you are not in this world to live up to mine. You are you, and I am I, and if by chance we find each other, it’s beautiful.”
“yet in that drunken place
you would
like to hand your heart to her
and say
touch it
but then
give it back”
“An entire sea of water can’t sink a ship unless it gets inside the ship. Similarly, the negativity of the world can’t put you down unless you allow it to get inside you.”
(Source: the-healing-nest)
(Source: cyberunfamous)
Sylvia Plath’s copy of The Great Gatsby
(Source: travismay108)
“Be happy for no reason, like a child. If you are happy for a reason, you’re in trouble, because that reason can be taken from you.”
“I apologize
for all my indentations
when I hold you tight.”
I no longer need you to fuck me as hard
as I hate myself.Make love to me
like you know I am better than the worst thing I ever did.
Go slow.
I’m new to this
but I have seen nearly every city from a rooftop without jumping.
I have realizedthat the moon did not have to be full for us to love it.
We are not tragedies
stranded here beneath it.”—Buddy Wakefield, “We Were Emergencies”
(Source: tilthe)
The Civil Wars- Between the Bars (Elliott Smith cover)
you can see elliott perform the original here.
-the skinny miracle
“Once you’ve accepted your flaws, no one can use them against you.”
(Source: wordsthat-speak)
“Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention. […] A loving silence often has far more power to heal and to connect than the most well-intentioned words.”
“The delicate illusions that get us through life can only stand so much strain.”
“Religion is belief in someone else’s experience. Spirituality is having your own experience.”
