❝Everyone tells you that you’ll find someone. They think that this makes you feel better, but it really just reminds you that you have someone to find. That you’re not good enough on your own.❞

—

(via axiones)

I like when people explain things that have always bothered me but I could never figure out why.

(via lostgrrrls)

(出典： honey-darling)

❝All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart.❞

— Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

❝Our trait of sensitivity means we will also be cautious, inward, needing more time alone. Because people without the trait (the majority) do not understand that, they see us as timid, shy, weak, or that greatest sin of all, unsociable. Fearing these labels, we try to be like others. But that leads to our becoming overaroused and distressed. Then that gets us labeled neurotic or crazy, first by others and then by ourselves.❞

— Elaine N. Aron, from The Highly Sensitive Person (via pianoter)

❝But don’t forget who you really are. And I’m not talking about your so-called real name. All names are made up by someone else, even the one your parents gave you. You know who you really are. When you’re alone at night, looking up at the stars, or maybe lying in your bed in total darkness, you know that nameless person inside you.❞

— Louis Sachar (via visualcomplex)

(出典： onlinecounsellingcollege)

❝When you give someone your time, you are giving them a portion of your life that you’ll never get back. Your time is your life. That is why the greatest gift you can give someone is your time.❞

— Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life (via winonaryderfanclub)

(出典： larmoyante)

❝To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.❞

— Ralph Waldo Emerson  (via jeffrawr)

❝If they don’t need you, it’s okay, you do not live for other people.❞

— Kyo  (via foxgrl)

(出典： a-knot)

brebuscus:

i never understood
what made your lips on my neck
such an intimate affair
until your teeth grazed my pulse
and i realized 
you could tear open my throat
and make me bleed out in your arms
but instead
you chose to kiss

damn.

(出典： nellsays)

❝And it’s hard to hate someone once you understand them.❞

— Lucy Christopher, Stolen: A Letter to My Captor (via deathen)

(出典： quotes-shape-us)

❝Many people do lack self-confidence, and there is certainly more pressure on women to be conscious of their own appearance than men, but is it really the case that women are more critical of that appearance than everyone else?

First of all, the whole entire world is critical of the way women look. Whether you are a supermodel, a teenager or even Secretary of State, if you’re a female, there are people all around you ready to tell you how bad your body looks. Secondly, the idea that women are valuable only for their beauty permeates nearly every facet of modern society, from the billboards we walk past to the social media we use daily. And this idea that women should be reduced to their appearance originated almost entirely in the minds and actions of men. And it is still largely perpetuated today by men – who run over 90% of our media.

So to say women are their own “worst critics” when it comes to beauty puts the blame on women for a beauty-obsessed, body-shaming and misogynistic world created and maintained largely by dudes.❞

— Imran Siddiquee, “Women Are Not Their Own Worst Beauty Critics” (via wretchedoftheearth)

❝The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows. After a while, people just think oppression is the normal state of things. But to become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave.❞

— Assata Shakur: An Autobiography (via caramelblackness)

❝如果你让我在你梦中，我就让你在我梦中。❞

— I’ll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours. (via sugarbaka)

(出典： allaboutchinese)

❝I’m not the silly romantic you think. I don’t want the heavens or the shooting stars. I don’t want gemstones or gold. I have those things already. I want… a steady hand. A kind soul. I want to fall asleep, and wake, knowing my heart is safe. I want to love, and be loved.❞

— Shana Abé (via durianseeds)

(出典： durianquotes)

❝Oh, you all know at least one. Who knows, maybe you are one. A girl who hates other girls. A girl who says, ‘All my friends are guys.’ A girl who generalizes about other girls, calling them “bitches” and “superficial” and “annoying,” and using all of those things to justify to other people why you don’t have female friends. Here’s a newsflash, cupcake: maybe you don’t have female friends because you’re a jerk and not very pleasant to be around.❞

— Self-Fulfilling Prophecies: The “I Hate Other Girls” Trap (via weeeenhi)