Consideration is so important to me

Franz Kafka, from a letter to Felice Bauer written in 1912, featured in Letters To Felice

my best revenge is that you’ll always think of me

Healing from a lifetime of putting my energy in the wrong place.

Honestly, the best advice I have for anyone is just be yourself. Be strange, be peculiar, be whimsical, be weird and messy and passionate about things people don’t understand. Let your odd quirks show. Let yourself show. We get this one teeny tiny life, and you should refuse to spend it trying to hide anything about yourself, otherwise you missed the whole point. There’s nothing about you that is wrong. Whoever you are, whatever you love, whatever you do, whatever you’re passionate about, whatever you dislike, whatever strange faces you make when something disgusts you or the way you laugh is wrong. It’s not possible. You are the way you are because that’s exactly how you are supposed to be. Not everyone has to love it, no everyone has to accept it, the only person that needs to is you.

— Joel Osteen

Can’t wait to introduce myself to a better me

on a very lonely journey.

growth feels like loss before it looks like freedom.

Eyes are like books, worth reading.

Being able is a....blessing

Breathe like you’re allowed to be here. Because you are. You’re allowed to take up space. You’re allowed to make noise. You’re allowed to need things and people. Your allowed to need accommodations and help. You’re allowed to cry and to laugh as much as you need and want. You’re allowed to ask questions. You’re allowed to be passionate. You’re allowed to be messy. You’re allowed to be strange. You’re allowed to be a paradox of things. You are allowed to be here. You are meant to be here. Live like you are.

— Clarice Lispector, from The Complete Stories: 'Brasilia' (tr. Katrina Dodson) (via lunamonchtuna)