@ladystarwar / ladystarwar.tumblr.com
“Authenticity is the daily practice of letting go of who we think we’re supposed to be and embracing who we are. Choosing authenticity means cultivating the courage to be imperfect, to set boundaries, and to allow ourselves to be vulnerable; exercising the compassion that comes from knowing that we are all made of strength and struggle; and nurturing the connection and sense of belonging that can only happen when we believe that we are enough.”
— Brene Brown
Charlotte Eriksson
“There are people we meet in life who miss being important to us by inches, days, or heartbeats. Another place or time or a different emotional frame of mind and we would willingly fall into their arms; gladly take up their challenge or invitation. But as it is, we encounter them when we are discontent or content and they are not. Whatever they are, we are not and vice versa. Two trains going in different directions that pass for a few powerful moments at full speed, blasting noise and wind but then they are gone. Whatever serious chemistry might have been possible if, isn’t.”
— Jonathon Carrol
“You are personally responsible for becoming more ethical than the society you grew up in.”
— Eliezer Yudkowsky
catch, and release
Susan Sontag, As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh (diaries 1964-1980)
Dominic Matthew Jackson (via lookingforthecolonelsanders)
Eli Brown, Cinnamon and Gunpowder
D.H. Lawrence (via wordsnquotes)
L.J. Smith, The Awakening (via wordsnquotes)
Albert Camus
Such a soft spot for stayherewithus.
(via stayherewithus)
Anais Nin (via psych-facts)
Cheryl Strayed, excerpt from Tiny Beautiful Things (via wethinkwedream)
Sometimes you’re 23 and standing in the kitchen of your house making breakfast and brewing coffee and listening to music that for some reason is really getting to your heart. You’re just standing there thinking about going to work and picking up your dry cleaning. And also more exciting things like books you’re reading and trips you plan on taking and relationships that are springing into existence. Or fading from your memory, which is far less exciting. And suddenly you just don’t feel at home in your skin or in your house and you just want home but “Mom’s” probably wouldn’t feel like home anymore either. There used to be the comfort of a number in your phone and ears that listened every day and arms that were never for anyone else. But just to calm you down when you started feeling trapped in a five-minute period where nostalgia is too much and thoughts of this person you are feel foreign. When you realize that you’ll never be this young again but this is the first time you’ve ever been this old. When you can’t remember how you got from sixteen to here and all the same feel like sixteen is just as much of a stranger to you now. The song is over. The coffee’s done. You’re going to breath in and out. You’re going to be fine in about five minutes.
