If you don’t have passion for something, you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place. Alexander McQueen (via seizes) _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
‘My life is nothing but room for you,’ I said. ‘It could never be filled by anyone but you.’ Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night (via larmoyante) _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
As you get older, you accept that there are some tunnels that don’t have any light in them, but you go down them anyway. Wayne Coyne, in the Winter 2013 issue of Under the Radar Magazine (via fuckyeahflaminglips) _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The best way to dehumanize someone while claiming you’re not is to believe you are just the same. You erase their experiences and perspective, their struggles and obstacles, their unique way of having to deal with those things in a world that also erases them. With the words, ‘but humans are humans’ or the bullshit dramatics of ‘we all bleed red’ normal people can simply pretend that if we all did things the way they did, then everything would work out okay. But, yes, we all bleed red but you don’t treat a paper-cut the same way you treat a gash, you don’t treat an infected wound the same way you treat one that isn’t, you don’t treat a wound to the leg the same way you treat a wound to the gut. You are not acknowledging someone’s personhood when you ignore the very things that make their lives different than yours, and when you refuse to understand that their circumstances have given them their own perspective that is just as valid as yours. More valid in fact – their perspective about their experiences that you haven’t been through is far more valid than anything you could ever think about it. The danger of worldviews (Speaking when the world sleeps) _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Not one single hurtful thing ever got changed by someone grinning and bearing it.

Hurtful things changed because people have said ‘That hurts me. Stop.’

And every time you try to silence someone and tell them that they shouldn’t be hurt, shouldn’t be offended, shouldn’t choose this battle, that this isn’t important and that other things are more important - you are serving the hurtful rather than the hurt. (via albinwonderland) _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The fact that you’re struggling doesn’t make you a burden. It doesn’t make you unloveable or undesirable or undeserving of care. It doesn’t make you too much or too sensitive or too needy. It makes you human. Everyone struggles. Everyone has a difficult time coping, and at times, we all fall apart. During these times, we aren’t always easy to be around — and that’s okay. No one is easy to be around one hundred percent of the time. Yes, you may sometimes be unpleasant or difficult. And yes, you may sometimes do or say things that make the people around you feel helpless or sad. But those things aren’t all of who you are and they certainly don’t discount your worth as a human being. The truth is that you can be struggling and still be loved. You can be difficult and still be cared for. You can be less than perfect, and still be deserving of compassion and kindness. Daniell Koepke (via ramona) _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
I think of the beauty in the obvious, the way it forces us to admit how it exists, the way it insists on being pointed out like a bloody nose, or how every time it snows there is always someone around to say, “It’s snowing.” But the obvious isn’t showing off, it’s only reminding us that time passes, and that somewhere along the way we grow up. Not perfect, but up and out. It teaches us something about time, that we are all ticking and tocking, walking the fine line between days and weeks as if each second speaks of years and each month has years listening to forever but never hearing anything beyond centuries swallowed up by millenniums, as if time was calculating the sums needed to fill the empty belly of eternity. We so seldom understand each other. But if understanding is neither here nor there, and the universe is infinite, then understand that no matter where we go we will always be smack dab in the middle of nowhere. All we can do is share some piece of ourselves, and hope that it’s remembered. Hope that we meant something to someone. Shane Koyczan, More Often Than Sometimes (via wecrythestars) _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
If it matters to you, then you’ll find a way. If it doesn’t you’ll find an excuse. Unknown (via onlinecounsellingcollege) _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
I wish I’d done everything on Earth with you. F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (via sycophancy) _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The people who say you are not facing reality actually mean that you are not facing their idea of reality. Margaret Halsey (via loveyourchaos) _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________


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