growing up a girl letting people do things to you for years and years and years means your anger will turn biblical. anger that is incoherent unidentifiable inconsolable
— Oscar Wilde
stop defining yourself by what you lack. you are not the absence of qualities, you’re the presence of them.
I will literally never believe your 20s are meant to be the prime of your life. The years immediately following your adolescence? When you’re entrenched in the battlefields of un/learning, healing, and growing? Yeah right
“Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.” - Lord Buddha Quotes
Mahmoud Darwish, from Almond Blossom & Beyond: Poems; “Happy, I Know Not Why,”
