Joy Sullivan, From “These Days People Are Really Selling Me On California”, Instructions For Traveling

some days progress feels as small as a single breath drawn in darkness - trembling, uncertain, barely there at all. but remember: even that whispered inhale is the universe continuing its ancient dance through your bones, even that fragile moment is your story refusing to end.

You are not responsible for making people understand your choices. Let them be confused.

Mahmoud Darwish, from The Butterfly's Burden; "Maybe, Because Winter Is Late,"

someone said, “the reason you isolate when you’re struggling is because you were left alone as a child to deal with your emotions” and i felt that

Joy Sullivan, from “At the Airport”, Instructions for Traveling West

Acknowledging that “critical thinking” means “thinking about things in a thorough way from different perspectives” and not “finding every flaw in a thing and fixating on it until all the joy is gone” is so liberating.

It’s supposed to be about intellectual curiosity, not about finding ways to devalue things that aren’t perfect or that we personally dislike.

i don’t want to do anything else but love you