You Should Never Forget To Do Nice Things For Yourself :)

“We are learning to live again, and, for many of us, it is for the first time.”

— Emilie Autumn, The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls (via books-n-quotes)

Please support people with mental illness (es) who don’t smile a lot.

Please support people with mental illness (es) who are socially awkward but try really hard to be friendly.

Please support people with mental illness (es) who have never dated or are scared to date.

Please support people with mental illness (es) who do “weird” thing when they’re nervous, uncomfortable, or scared.

Please support people with mental illness (es) who don’t know how to communicate what’s bothering them.

Please support people with mental illness (es) who have really bad memory issues or memory recall.

Please support people with mental illness (es) who need alone time.

Please support people with mental illness (es) who made plans but had to break them because they had an episode or attack.

Please support people with mental illness (es) who need every detail spelled out to them to ensure they understand you.

Please support people with mental illness (es) who ask you the same question twelve times to make sure they get it right.

Please support people with mental illness (es) because life is hard enough as it is without your mind trying to sabotage you at every corner.

Last year your eyes were as blue as an ocean in Hawaii, but this year your eyes burn mine with fire. I know your whole life took a bad spin in a carousel of emotions, but last year your stare was a rarity I thought I was never going to find. I guess I was right because it only took a year for you to realize that my life is just worthy of trying to breathe in an ocean of demise.

— Alexa Evangelista, The Book I’ll Never Finish Writing

“No one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone. That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it.”

— Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes

“A flower does not think of competing to the flower next to it. It just blooms.”

— Zen Shin (via thoughtkick)