You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. This is a power you can cultivate. If you want to control things in your life so bad, work on the mind. That’s the only thing you should be trying to control.
Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love (via larmoyante)
…I wrote it because I wanted to feel something. I needed to feel something. I wanted to get the words written because the writing proved I was alive.
Anne Sexton, from A Self-Portrait In Letters (via violentwavesofemotion)
“After a while you learn
the subtle difference between
holding a hand and chaining a soul
and you learn
that love doesn’t mean leaning
and company doesn’t always mean security.
And you begin to learn
that kisses aren’t contracts
and presents aren’t promises
and you begin to accept your…
