most of the time the things you need will conflict - you will want love and you will also yearn for independence; you will want stability and you will dream of adventure; you will want one person and you will also want the world. do not resist this, do not apologize for it, do not try to fix it. accept your own complexity, your own conflictions and uncertainties. accept that you are a being, a live, wild thing that keeps on changing. accept that you are many things, and love yourself for it. fight for your many needs. that is not selfish, it is caring.

marina v., you are the only person on earth who can see all of you | every single piece.  (via thatkindofwoman)

I believe in intention and I believe in work. I believe in waking up in the middle of the night and packing our bags and leaving our worst selves for our better ones.

Leslie Jamison, The Empathy Exams  (via thatkindofwoman)

Girls like her were born in a storm.
They have lightning in their souls,
Thunder in their hearts,
and chaos in their bones.

Girls like Her | Nikita Gill (via ohhkittykat78)

You have to be grateful whenever you get to someplace safe and okay, even if it turns out it wasn’t quite where you were heading.

Anne Lamott, Small Victories (via myhusbandstumor)

The best portion of your life will be the small, nameless moments you spend smiling with someone who matters to you.

Unknown  (via modernhepburn)

Yes.

(via myhusbandstumor)

Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty… I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.

Theodore Roosevelt (via beartrapdreams)

Most people think happiness is about gaining something, but it’s not. It’s all about getting rid of the darkness you accumulate.

Carolyn Crane (via hellanne)

It’s clear to me now that I have been moving toward you and you toward me for a long time. Though neither of us was aware of the other before we met, there was a kind of mindless certainty bumming blithely along beneath our ignorance that ensured we would come together. Like two solitary birds flying the great prairies by celestial reckoning, all of these years and lifetimes we have been moving toward one another.

Robert James Waller; ”The Bridges of Madison County” (via larmoyante)