“Your softness is power. Your softness is what keeps you trudging onward. Kiss those who doubt you goodbye, and hope that they find the inner kindness you already possess.”Tagged: strength, Inspirational, Soft People, Kind Hearts
“But if you want something magic, you have to be open to looking for it. You have to be ready with outstretched arms when it finally arrives. You need to know that magic, as all things do, still requires work. Your Great Love is going to be so, so great. Don’t wait around passively for it. Go look.…”Tagged: Ari Eastman, Love
“I was not made to love quietly. I have never known how to do it. I shout my emotions without thinking twice. I unzip myself for the entire world to see.”Tagged: Ari Eastman, Love
“Self-love is necessary because it gives you the tools to survive in this lifetime. And it’s something you can do on your own. You don’t need to depend on anyone else to give you your worth or value. You hold all the power, and in a world that you can’t control, that’s an empowering feeling.”Tagged: Ari Eastman, Love
“Everyone is so focused on being fiercely independent, on ‘Boy, Bye’, on donning a brave face and trudging onward. Yes, all of those things have purpose and importance, but they don’t represent more strength.”Tagged: Strong, Independent, strength
“Experiencing pain because someone you love(d) is no longer a person you can call at 2 AM when you can’t sleep is not weakness. Crying when you come across old photographs and the memories hit you like a slap in the face is not weakness. Missing someone who you cared for is not weakness.”Tagged: Strong, Weak, Crying, Missing You
“That is not weakness. Experiencing pain because someone you love(d) is no longer a person you can call at 2 AM when you can’t sleep is not weakness. Crying when you come across old photographs and the memories hit you like a slap in the face is not weakness. Missing someone who you cared for is not…”Tagged: Ari Eastman, Love
“You’d drop everything for them. It doesn’t matter that you’re at a concert for your favorite artist, or that it’s 4 am and you have to be at work in a few hours – if your friend needs you, you are there faster than they can say, I need you.”Tagged: Best Friends, Friendship, I'd Do Anything For You
“We rewrite what we wanted out of life and decide it's really boys who smell like cigarettes.”Tagged: Good wriitng, Women, My aesthetic
“I tell him about the boys and cobwebs and how I’m not sure when I’m the spider or the one getting caught.”Tagged: Poetry, Dating
“Someone once told me it’s a bad thing to start suddenly speaking in tongues, but he knows that language better than anyone. I don’t understand a word, but thank God he does. Love is like the first cherry tree blossoming. Love is like the two of us taking turns biting the apple tree. Love is like our…”Tagged: Poetry, Love
“I see a nutcracker in a store window display and want to throw the biggest rock at it I can find. I want to shatter the glass with my bare knuckles, to bleed all over the happiness. I want to stuff tinsel in the mouth of the nutcracker, to watch him destroy everything that is supposed to bring…”Tagged: Poetry, Loss, Grief
“to watch you in pain is a terrible, terrible thing. is to sit helpless with all the tools locked in the shed.”Tagged: Poetry, Health, Pain, Family