twister:

“You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”

—  Marcus Aurelius, Meditations (via coral)

violentwavesofemotion:

“In you was the sea.”

— Max Hölzer, tr. by Beth Bjorklund, from “The Summer’s Cold,” c. 1962

pyrrhic-victoria:

“Still, something settles, something stays, Something sedimentary accumulates. Something hearkens to the blues until it turns inward to its own past tense.”

— Don McKay, from section (ii) of “As if Spirit, As if Soul,” Angular Unconformity: Selected Poems 1970-2014 (Icehouse Poetry Press, 2014)

violentwavesofemotion:

“You should not deny your honest and good emotions.”

— Anne Sexton, from a letter to Dennis Farrell written c. March 1963

purplebuddhaquotes:

“I want to talk about what happened without mentioning how much it hurt. There has to be a way. To care for the wounds without reopening them. To name the pain without inviting it back into me.”

—

Lora Mathis

truelovevip:

being as i am an idiot, and having been one my whole life, i just wanna say that i find it very easy to do nothing, and go nowhere. i eat chocolate late at night in the dark. i stand in the garden also. and i’m often waiting for something to happen. and i’m stupid.

matd:

“We have this deep sadness between us and its spells so habitual I can’t tell it from love.”

— Anne Carson, The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos (via wordsnquotes)

onlinecounsellingcollege:

“Actually, I just woke up one day and decided I didn’t want to feel like that anymore, or ever again. so I changed. Just like that.”

— curiano.com