I Refuseto Be Reforested. I Stay Razed As A Reminder.

I refuse to be reforested. I stay razed            as a reminder.

Nina Puro, from “houses all the way down, or, the slope mine” (via christophercarrioned)

Once we nearly crashed into a tree because we were arguing over what music to listen to. You wanted to listen to some painfully hip techno shit that your friend had recommended, and it was giving me a headache, so we both kept fiddling with the radio, not watching the road. I grabbed the steering wheel at the very last second. When you realized what had happened, you laughed until you cried. At least I’m good in an emergency, I said, and you said: Sweetheart, you are an emergency.

Nicola Blank, from The Prettiest Girl in the Psych Ward (via medeae)

Admit it. You aren’t like them. You’re not even close. You may occasionally dress yourself up as one of them, watch the same mindless television shows as they do, maybe even eat the same fast food sometimes. But it seems that the more you try to fit in, the more you feel like an outsider, watching the “normal people” as they go about their automatic existences. For every time you say club passwords like “Have a nice day” and “Weather’s awful today, eh?”, you yearn inside to say forbidden things like “Tell me something that makes you cry” or “What do you think deja vu is for?”. Face it, you even want to talk to that girl in the elevator. But what if that girl in the elevator (and the balding man who walks past your cubicle at work) are thinking the same thing? Who knows what you might learn from taking a chance on conversation with a stranger? Everyone carries a piece of the puzzle. Nobody comes into your life by mere coincidence. Trust your instincts. Do the unexpected. Find the others.

Timothy Leary (via wnq-anonymous)

I don’t believe in unconditional love. In fact, I think it’s unwise. My love has had a condition that if ever my love keeps you from you, from your growing, and realizing your personal potential, then I must step aside. No one has the right to stand in the way of another’s joy, development, or unique perceptions.

Leo Buscaglia (via wordsnquotes)

Perfectionism is a self-destructive and addictive belief system that fuels this primary thought: If I look perfect, live perfect, and work perfect, I can avoid or minimize criticism, blame and ridicule, the painful feelings of shame, judgment, and blame. All perfectionism is, is the 20-ton shield that we carry around hoping that it will keep us from being hurt.

Brene Brown (via fyp-psychology)

In that instant, I started seeing my body as my ally, and I started nurturing a new belief that I could trust my body to tell me the truth. Pain, after all, is the body talking. Panic is the body talking. More times than not the message is simply, ‘There is more to heal.’

Andrea Gibson (via wordsnquotes)