#yours

Life is painful and messed up. It gets complicated at the worst of times, and sometimes you have no idea where to go or what to do. Lots of times people just let themselves get lost, dropping into a wide open, huge abyss. But that's why we have to keep trying. We have to push through all that hurts us, work past all our memories that are haunting us. Sometimes the things that hurt us are the things that make us strongest. A life without experience, in my opinion, is no life at all. And that's why I tell everyone that, even when it hurts, never stop yourself from living. ↗

— Alysha Speer

#finding-yourself #friends #life #living #lost

We must be free, but to have real freedom, you must be wild and free yourself. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#freedom #love-yourself #out-of-the-box #freedom

I was the Duff. And that was a good thing. Because anyone who didn't feel like the Duff must not have friends. Every girl feels unattractive sometimes. Why had it taken me so long to figure that out? Why had I been stressing over that dumb word for so long when it was so simple? I should be proud to be the Duff. Proud to have great friends who, in their minds, were my Duffs. ↗

— Kody Keplinger

#friends #friendship #self-confidence #yourself #youth

But how could he admire Joyce’s lengthy, libidinal ‘yes’ so fervently and end up saying ‘no’ to his own life? I suppose that a lifetime spent hiding one’s erotic truth could have a cumulative renunciatory effect. Sexual shame is in itself a kind of death. ↗

— Alison Bechdel

#death

Imitation is suicide. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#creativity #life #life

We carried bottled water and day packs and cameras, except for Fred, who said he didn’t believe in taking photographs; he planned to store his memories in his head, an idea I found incomprehensibly radical. My impulse to record was almost on par with my impulse to travel ↗

— Elisabeth Eaves

#love

I'd rather be hated for who I am than loved for who I'm not ↗

— Kurt Cobain

#love

Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#ground #how #learning #miss #throw

One less love is one less broken heart. ↗

— Madeline Vega

#love

Hate isn’t the opposite of love, apathy is. Hating doesn’t free you from feeling anything. You have to carry it around, using every scar, every little memory like a building block. Like a stone in a wall, until you’ve created a new person, a new life that you can live with. ↗

— Rasmenia Massoud

#feeling #hate #life #love #reinventing-yourself