Images, fears and desires

“Hay un tipo de tristeza que viene de saber demasiado, de ver el mundo como realmente es. Es la tristeza de entender que la vida no es una gran aventura, sino una serie de pequeños, insignificantes momentos, que el amor no es un cuento de hadas, sino una emoción frágil y fugaz, que la felicidad no es un estado permanente, sino una rara y fugaz vista de algo que nunca podremos sostener. Y en ese entendimiento, hay una profunda soledad, una sensación de estar aislado del mundo, de otras personas, de uno mismo”.

~Virginia Woolf🥀~.

"Self care isn’t just drinking water and going to sleep early. Self care is taking a break when things become overwhelming, saying no to things you do not want to do, allowing yourself to cry, asking for help from those around you, doing things that make you happy."

[Illustration: callmealyne]

I wish there was a cat in me

Giving love like a huge favour

But there's just a little puppy

Begging for it.

-Tatjana Bulovic

Artwork by Aytham El Badry

"I don’t want to fall in love anymore, I feel like I’m constantly repeating myself; telling people my favorite songs, showing them my favorite movies and TV shows, my favorite colour, places I like to visit, just everything. And I’m tired of repeating myself, I don’t have the energy anymore. I want someone who already knows that a particular song is my favorite because it makes me cry happy tears, I want someone who knows that this movie is my favorite, because one of my earliest memories was watching it as a kid, when we were still a family. I don’t want to give people parts of me only for them to become a stranger again, It’s not fair. I’m tired."

[Illustration: Heo Jiseon]

“I am very cruel to myself. I demand perfection, but I am very lazy. I want to become great, but I fear the result of becoming misunderstood. I desire to be loved, but I panic at the thought of becoming rejected. I yearn to heal, but I long for the things that destroy me in the end."

— Juansen Dizon⁣

"You need to remember that you’ve managed to get this far in life. You’ve been in situations where you thought you’d never make it out but you did. You lived to tell the tale. You survived another day. You got through it. You learned from your mistakes, you realised where you went wrong, you grew as a person. You made it. So whatever you’re going through now, you’ll get through that too."

“You’re never going to be 100% ready and it’s never going to be just the right time, but that’s the point. It means that every moment is also the right moment. If you want it, you just have to do it.” —Unknown

artwork by instagram.com/otra_sarah

Intimacy is not who you let to touch you. Intimacy is who you text at 3am about your dreams and fears. Intimacy is giving someone your attention, when ten other people are asking for it. Intimacy is the person always in the back of your mind, no matter how distracted you are. 💗

"Until you get comfortable with being alone, you’ll never know if you’re choosing someone out of love or loneliness." —Mandy Hale

“I can be someone’s and still be my own.” —Shel Silverstein

"Until you get comfortable with being alone, you’ll never know if you’re choosing someone out of love or loneliness." —Mandy Hale

“I can be someone’s and still be my own.” —Shel Silverstein

“Sometimes it’s vital to work on yourself before looking to date.

There are so many people who are walking around & not ready to be the best version of themselves, yet want to be with the best versions of other people.”

—instagram.com/Oloni #ThingsThatMakeYouGoOuch ⁣

Pain moves us forward, changing us into something else, something we need to be. - Michelle Moran

Illustration by D Caballero

I’m torn somewhere between believing that I’m nothing but an ordinary person and believing that I’m everything special. - Mariem Sherif art By loish

Eat potatoes!