“You Do Not Need Another Heart To Make Yours Beat, Despite Popular Misconception.”

We are products of our past but we don’t have to be prisoners of it.

Rick Warren

When the shell of the ego has been cracked and there begins to be a consciousness of the subliminal and physiological otherness underlying personality, it sometimes happens that we catch a glimpse, fleeting but apocalyptic, of that other Otherness, which is the Ground of all being.

Aldous Huxley

“Nothing is quite as beautiful as someone who has survived losing everything and still has a tender heart.”

— Unknown

“Your absence has gone through me Like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color.”

— W. S. Merwin, Separation

Living feels twisted, gnarled like the roots of a tree that grew somewhere it was never meant to

I am jealous of those who think more deeply, who write better, who draw better, who look better, who live better, who love better than I.

-Sylvia Plath

“I am still learning.”

— Michelangelo (via thoughtkick)

Phantom Thread (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2017)

Marian Engel, from Notebooks: “Ah, Mon Cahier, čoute”

Text ID: I fade into dreams.

“there is nothing more powerful than realizing that your wholeness is not defined by anything but you. people may add onto the beautiful pieces that already exist within you, but nothing they do could ever complete you. the keys to your acceptance have always belonged to you.”

— iambrillyant