“I Feel Myself Shutting Down, Closing Off, Like I Should Tell People, ‘No, We Don’t Use This Heart

#tea

mentally, i’m in the back of a library sipping tea and re-reading my favorite books under the soft light of a candle

“Give yourself permission to cut negative people from your life, and surround yourself with people who bring out the best in you.”

— James Altucher 

“Comparing yourself to others is an act of violence against your authentic self.”

— Iyanla Vanzant 

“Mental will is a muscle that needs exercise, just like the muscles of the body.”

— Lynn Jennings 

"Do you know why hugs are so beautiful?

Because the right side of you does not have a heart, so it is empty, and when you hug you will have a heart on both sides."

“The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.”

— Ernest Hemingway

“In my memory, it doesn’t end. We just stay there, looking at each other, forever.”

— John Green

“I’ve never seen any life transformation that didn’t begin with the person in question finally getting tired of their own bullshit.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert 

“I’m not much, but I’m all I have.”

— Philip K. Dick