Feel Good Ache

“My life, it used to be this vibrant thing, overflowing with potential.”

“I’m so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything”

Another Love

“I’m always running late I’m always running I’m always trying to move time backwards & tell everyone that I love them.”

“A poet loves someone not simply because that someone is poetry material. A poet loves someone because that someone makes them feel like poetry.”

“If you asked most people whether they believed in love or not, they’d probably say they didn’t. Yet that’s not necessarily what they truly think. It’s just the way they defend themselves against what they want. They believe in it, but pretend they don’t until they’re allowed to. Most people would throw away their cynicism if they could. The majority just never get the chance.” - Alain de Botton, Essays in Love

“I am running out of ways to say I love you, so instead, I will ask you to be safe. You are precious cargo in a world full of damned chances.”

Living our life fully and deeply requires courage. If we cannot be happy right now, we need to ask ourselves why. We need to find out what it is. What’s weighing us down or pulling us away from the present moment?

I want to lay down and fade away.

“Got tired of being a house on fire, / so I became a poet.”

“I understood the necessity of beauty, of an atmosphere of silence, of a void even in which the imagination might blossom.”

“Perfectionism is a self destructive and addictive belief system that fuels this primary thought: If I look perfect, and do everything perfectly, I can avoid or minimize the painful feelings of shame, judgment, and blame.”