the way you can resent your parents but also sympathise with and ache for them… so sick
My home will be a home with no loud anger, no explosive rage, no slamming doors or breaking glass, no name calling, shaming or blackmail. My home will be gentle, it will be warm. It will keep my loved ones safe. No fear, no hurt and no worries.
“That’s how you can tell that you’re filling yourself with the wrong things. You use a lot of energy, and in the end, you feel emptier and than ever.”— Glennon Doyle Melton
“I write to find out what I’m thinking.”— Julia Alvarez
Truest thing I’ve read today
“You have dug your soul out of the dark, you have fought to be here; do not go back to what buried you.”— Bianca Sparacino, The Strength In Our Scars (via thoughtkick)
“I’m not everything I want to be, but I’m more than I was, and I’m still learning.”— Charlotte Eriksson, Everything Changed When I Forgave Myself
(via pottah)
I hope you look back at past versions of yourself with kindness rather than despair.