Happiness is not the absence of problems, it's the ability to deal with them.

Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

Don’t explain. People only hear what they want to hear.

Paulo Coelho

If someone makes you feel, let them.

Reyna Biddy

We spend so much energy on made-up competitions that happen mostly in our own minds. Our culture might have made us believe that this way of being is good, but all it really does is increase our sense of separateness and put people against each other, causing useless suffering in pretty much everyone involved.

It seems to me that unlearning this habit is necessary not only for us to live more fulfilling lives but also so we can build better communities with each other.

changing with the tides by shelby leigh 💛

I want you inside my mind, smothering my thoughts, and indulging in my dreams. I want you, all over me, all the time.

There will come a day when you’ll be so grateful that you never gave up.

Unknown

No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to others is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.

Unknown

Allow yourself to be a beginner. No one starts off being excellent.

Unknown

me???? tired???? sleepy???? yes constantly

You have dug your soul out of the dark, you have fought to be here; do not go back to what buried you.

Bianca Sparacino, The Strength In Our Scars

Poems that the earth writes upon the sky.

Every time I wrote your name, I lied. Every time I wrote your name, it was the truth.

1.Clarice Lispector | 2.Nickie Zimov | 3.Warsan Shire | 4.Pablo Neruda | 5.Madeline Miller | 6.Nickie Zimov | 7.Madeline Miller | 8.Vincent van Gogh | 9.James Joyce | 10.Nick Lantz | 11.Ocean Vuong | 12.Nickie Zimov | 13.Richard Brautigan | 14.Keaton St. James 

You'll meet a hundred different people who will describe you in a hundred different ways, don't dwell too much on the kind of impression you make. Remember, there are a thousand paintings of the sun, but only one that rises and sets each day.

Ekta Somera

Boss made a dollar

I made a dime,

That was a poem

From a simpler time.

Now boss makes a thousand

And gives us a cent

While he’s got employees 

Who can’t pay the rent.

So when boss makes a million

And the workers make jack

Then that’s when we riot

And take our lives back.

#WorkingClassSolidarity

text from my dad (2021) - my dad

“i’ll admit that my main problem with this is that i haven’t asked”

submitted by @cornandcoconutsoup​

Thoughts on the gendering of Chinese pronouns

Edit: I replaced the word "colonization" with "westernization" in the last frame for accuracy. This comic was originally intended as personal vent. I didn’t expect it to get so much attention, and I will admit I wasn't as careful with wording as I could have been. The original comic and its wording can be found here with an image ID. 

Also can the racists and ra/dfe/ms get off my post and get better reading comprehension. This post was about my grief for western influence unnecessarily gendering something that wasn’t gendered before, not saying that gender roles and misogyny never existed in China so stop derailing the post.

Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

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.

Melissa Cox