Instead of focusing on long term goals, try to pay attention to the small steps you can take to improve things a little, to bring you a little closer to where you’d like to be. Turn that big goal that seems unattainable into smaller goals to be achieved until you finally reach that milestone that feels impossible to reach right now because it feels too great to be realistic. That can help take some of the pressure off and allow you to not feel paralyzed in anxiety over how hard it is to achieve things. Baby steps still count as moving forward.

strangers being kind to you is one of the best things ever because you know that they gain nothing from it and they probably will never see you again but they just choose to be kind

You get exactly what you think you deserve. The more relentless you are at cutting off things that don't serve you, the quicker you make space for what you really want.

your life is not an optimization problem

as in you'll never achieve the perfect daily routine, sleep schedule, coping mechanisms, mannerisms, fashion sense etc. even after years and years of healing and improvement and self-discovery. you will never be so good at life that you manage to utilize every waking moment. its great to be productive and all but sometimes you'll suck ass. sometimes you'll take eight hours to be done with a twenty minute job. you'll prioritize the wrong thing. you'll sleep for 12 hrs just to avoid being awake. you'll relapse. and you'll relapse again. you'll forget to turn in the assignment. you'll order too little food. life is far too large and complex for you to even experience it completely, much less try to make sense of and control it. you can't. please give up on that and be at peace with the hours you lose. they are not separate from your life.

other peoples expectations or perceptions of you are not yours to carry or control. you do not need to be someone else in order to be worthy, you are worthy as you are!!! of love, of friendship, of joy, of hope, of adventure, of confidence... all of it. the right people will see you for who you are I promise you! i am putting a lock on a bridge to tie us all to that promise 💌

Celebrate yourself. Celebrate the times you’ve pulled yourself off the bathroom floor and wiped your tears from your cheeks. Celebrate finishing that difficult assignment and making friends even though you were scared. Be proud of yourself for getting through hard days and for making good days better. Act out of self-love, not self-hate. Move your body because it’ll help you feel better. Nourish yourself with delicious foods. Study extra because you deserve that good grade. Buy that coffee not because you’re impulsively spending money but because you’re investing in yourself. Play your favorite music while you get ready and while you walk to class. Counter your frustration with yourself with love.

i hope birds know that they're saving my life every time they sing

The more you mature, the more you realise you don't want to be around drama, stress, or conflict anymore. You just want a calm, cosy home, good food on your table, and to be surrounded by your favourite people.

sounds silly but. one of the greatest things ever as someone with a trauma background is learning that things aren't inherently as bad or as scary as I thought. it IS possible to assemble Ikea furniture without arguments. is IS possible to discuss boundaries without having something thrown at me for speaking out of turn. it IS possible to spend hours on end sharing your favourite things with your favourite people, and not get called annoying for it. the world is an incredible place

Our secrets run deep as rivers within the earth. Our blood runs hot as we are removed from this world. Hidden away as our hearts speak to one another in an unknown language of longing. The world has tried to explain such things since time began, but it simply cannot know us. You and I are of heaven and earth, flesh and blood. Our souls tethered making time and distance irrelevant. I think I have pursued you since creation over countless lifetimes. Every birth marking the beginning to find you. To spend lives loving you. ~ B.T.

Right now life is teaching me the law of detachment. ain’t nothing really yours, you gotta be comfortable with not being attached, just enjoying life for what it is & moving on when it’s time

Be more self influenced. You’ll be happier and make better decisions.