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“We are tired of waking up with nothing to look forward to, tired of going to bed exhausted after doing a million things we find no enjoyment in doing. We’re tired of this void, this emptiness that looms over us even though our days are packed. We’re tired of the loneliness that presses down on us even though we’re surrounded by dozens of people. Humans are so afraid to look into each other’s eyes and say:

’I am unahappy,

I am broken,

I am hopeless and fallible’ ”

I thought, w/ a strange dispassion, that she had made a lie of my existence, when all this time I’d considered her part of what made it real.

“

—	Leah Stewart, The Myth of You and Me

The feeling of being ‘okay’ does not imply that the person has risen above all his faults and emotional problems. It merely implies that he refuses to be paralyzed by them.

“

—

(via heartscontent)

Maybe that’s all you can ever ask for. To not be paralyzed by the problems that tend to weigh you down. Because there are always going to BE these problems. It’s what you do inspite of them that truly matters.

Now I’m just going to have to remind myself of that from time to time.

“ each friend represents a world in us,

a world possibly not born until they arrive

& it is only by this meeting that a new world

is born “

- Anais Nin

speakheartspeak (via haylieerin):

I guess the question is,

what should one do in the moments when

it feels like there is no one

or nothing

to fasten yourself

to?