"A thought is harmless unless we believe it. It’s not our thoughts, but our attachment to our thoughts, that causes suffering. Attaching to a thought means believing that it’s true, without inquiring. A belief is a thought that we’ve been attaching to, often for years."
- Byron Katie (via lazyyogi)
(Fonte: lazyyogi, via anna-learns-to-love-herself)
"If you want to be happy, you have to be happy on purpose. When you wake up, you can’t just wait to see what kind of day you’ll have. You have to decide what kind of day you’ll have."
- Joel Osteen
(via wnq-writers)
(Fonte: themotivationjournals.com, via anna-learns-to-love-herself)
"Don’t sit and wait. Get out there. Feel life."
- Rumi
(via naturaekos)
(Fonte: naturaekos, via anna-learns-to-love-herself)
Sometimes self-love isn’t about feeling pretty. Sometimes self-love isn’t about being euphoric because suddenly you love parts of your personality you used to hate. Sometimes self-love isn’t standing in front of the mirror and being able to tell yourself that you are beautiful.
Sometimes it is the decision to get out of bed. To have breakfast and a shower. Sometimes self-love is asking for help. Sometimes self-love is the decision not to purge or harm yourself. Or looking in the mirror and thinking “I am okay with what I see.” Sometimes self-love is doing the opposite of what you’re supposed to do, just because you need that to not fall apart. And that’s okay. It’s okay if surviving is all you’re able to do at the moment. Not hating yourself is a huge step. It doesn’t have to be a firework of love towards yourself. Let’s be realistic, take away the pressure and appreciate the “small” steps, that are actually not small at all.
I set up some candles and a lavender oil lamp, cut a huge plate of fruit, boiled some tea and now I’m snuggled up with a hot water bottle and will get this huge pile of work emails done that I had no time to reply to during the week. Home office is instantly 100% nicer when I set up a comforting workplace for myself :)
What are you up to, lovely people? Any nourishing plans for the weekend? Is there something on your mind you wanna share? I would love to hear from you 🎄
04/12/2017
DO ALL THE THINGS. (Then become a cute old lady and live the comfy life)
Not always accurate, but often a good reminder for myself! <3
"You ruin your life by desensitizing yourself. We are all afraid to say too much, to feel too deeply, to let people know what they mean to us. Caring is not synonymous with crazy. Expressing to someone how special they are to you will make you vulnerable. There is no denying that. However, that is nothing to be ashamed of. There is something breathtakingly beautiful in the moments of smaller magic that occur when you strip down and are honest with those who are important to you. Let that girl know that she inspires you. Tell your mother you love her in front of your friends. Express, express, express. Open yourself up, do not harden yourself to the world, and be bold in who, and how you love. There is courage in that."
- Bianca Sparacino
(via wordsnquotes)
(Fonte: wordsnquotes.com, via wordsnquotes)
“I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning. If you knew when you began a book what you would say at the end, do you think that you would have the courage to write it? What is true for writing and for a love relationship is true also for life. The game is worthwhile insofar as we don’t know what will be the end. My field is the history of thought. Man is a thinking being.”
Foucault
"Sometimes, you do things and you do them not because you’re thinking but because you’re feeling. Because you’re feeling too much. And you can’t always control the things you do when you’re feeling too much."
- Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
(via thelovejournals)
(Fonte: thelovejournals.com, via thelovejournals)