hope your days get softer from here on out. hope the hurt lessens and the dark turns to light. you deserve gentleness and good love. I hope it finds you soon.

you will live and you will say the wrong things and make mistakes and people will love you anyways.

I don’t need to suffer to grow and achieve things

I can grow and reach my goals through love

Speak positively over yourself and your life.

I love this picture so much! Post it whenever I come across it.

Inner Mongolian Child

The little girl’s name is Butedmaa and she was just 5 when this picture was taken in 2003 by Han Chengli.

(I used to have a printout of this at my desk at work because I just loved looking at it so much.)

Moon & Venus and Pleiades

Credit: Robert Ćwikliński

— Marilynne Robinson, Gilead, 2004

the scary part about getting better is that there's this constant fear that things will go back to what they once were

i think about this very often to but to be alive is such a privilege. you can smell flowers, eat freshly baked cookies, lose yourself in the pages of a new book, listen to heartwarming music and read soul crushing poetry, meet kind and funny people, learn something new. i think the miracle is in waking up every day

Before Sunrise (1995)