Many of us have been running all our lives. We have the feeling that we need to run — into the future, away from the past, out from wherever we are. In truth, we don’t need to go anywhere. We just need to sit down and look deeply to discover that the whole cosmos is right here within us.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
"Bury your past. Let flowers grow where you lay."
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"i know exactly who i want to be. i’ve shaped this ideal person in my head, from the color she paints her nails in winter, to the silk pajamas she wears to bed. i think about her when i mess up, when things don’t go my way. how she would laugh away the stress and know exactly what to say. she is the version of me that i most want to be. so happy and kind and always carefree. i’ve tried so hard to be this perfect girl, that i’ve forgotten how to be me."
when oscar wilde said ’i am tired of myself tonight, i should like to be someone else’ and when sylvia plath said ’i wish i knew what to do with my life, what to do with my heart’ and when rilke said ’this heavy humanness’
sometimes i wish i had courage to do certain things; lived a different life, be a little bolder, stick through the decisions i make
There are 2 types of people: those who take risks because they only live once and those who don’t because they only live once
