Self-care Is Doing What’s Best For You For The Long Term. Sometimes That Means Taking It Easy, Sometimes

Having a soft heart in a cruel world is courage, not weakness.

Katherine Henson

Now I had seen the grief of the two strongest people I knew. And somehow, crying made them seem even stronger to me. It was better to cry than to suck it up and go around conjuring hate in your heart.

— Silas House, Eli the Good

““You’re the kind of soul anyone would be lucky to be with, and you don’t even know it, the great ones never do.” - Adrian Michael”

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“Thank you for misunderstanding me, rejecting me and not seeing me and teaching me to always see myself.”

— Unknown (via perfectquote)

““I had to learn to live without you and I couldn’t make sense of it, because I left so much of me inside of you.” - R.M. Drake”

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“Why was ‘plain’ a euphemism for ‘ugly,’ when the very hallmark of human beauty was its plainness, the symmetry and simplicity that always seemed so young and so innocent. It was impossible not to think that here beauty was one of the most important things about her – something having to do with who she really was.”

— Elif Batuman, The Idiot