“EMBRACE sweetness. Accept kindness into your life, both from strangers and old friends and yourself. Every time you look in a mirror, sneak yourself a compliment. My, your compassion looks beautiful today. Your intelligence is sparkling. When you speak, choose gentle words. Choose words with meaning. When you listen, don’t do anything else. Devote time to listen. Listen to each other, listen to your body, listen to nature. Give without considering what you’ll get in return. Make it through today, whatever way you can.”—
Schuyler Peck
“To fuck or not to fuck? A question as old as time. A question I am always asking myself when I am with you. Staring at you as you laugh wildly at your own joke, I can totally see a world were we are more. But for once in my life, my need for pleasure does not trump my need for a friend. So it’s enough for me that you stay the way you are, without me ever being inside you. Just meet half way. Meet me in awkward conversations we can never have in polite company. Meet me when I need a hand or a shoulder, sometimes I will need both. Sometimes I won’t know what I need, I will just walk towards you. Meet me half way. I can picture this world, you know? I can picture being in your arms and staring into your eyes and making funny faces until we laugh so much that we forget about the external world. I believe we are happy in another universe, another life, where we are different people and life didn’t throw so much shit at us. But I also believe we can be happy in this one just by being what we are; two people who found a connection so precious that it goes beyond sex and pleasure. Two people who understand each other, when no one else did. Two people who will never, ever be apart.”— A collab between my amazing friend @writingbykawelwa and @giulswrites
“The sun lights up in your smile and all I want is to taste the sunshine. The stars twinkle more when you smile at me and all I want is to taste the sky. You may be miles away but all I’ve to do is close my eyes shut and I can feel you. ”—
“A girl who’s smart and funny and who, if I say something dumb for a laugh, is willing to say something two or three times as dumb to make me laugh, but who also gets weird and wise sometimes in a way I could never be. A girl who reads books that no one’s assigned to her.”— Childish Gambino - “That Power”
Today is the perfect day to stop and appreciate all that you are. Every single little bit. Today is the perfect day to nurture a love that blooms from the inside to the out, not from other people, but from yourself.
Nicole Addison @thepowerwithin | Instagram
“I’m not the girl who will leave you broken on the bathroom floor at 3am. I’m not the girl who will ignore your calls or play hard to get or make you question your worth. I’m not the girl who will be reckless with your heart and cause you pain because it’s familiar. I am breakfast in bed and holding your hand while I drive and a thoughtful surprise just to see you smile. I am soft and I am careful and I will make you feel safe. If it’s carelessness you want then you’re in the wrong place, because I am not the girl who will hurt you just for the sake of it.”—
“Truth is you can never know where you’ll end up with someone. You meet a stranger and you might find your best friend in them. You marry someone you love and you might find a stranger down the road. None of us will ever know. But should it stop you from loving them? The pain of losing them will hurt like hell, but even in that pain you’ll find growth. Love them. Love them until you can’t anymore, love them in ways more than one, love them because you’ll never know when you can’t. You’ll never know where life will take them. In not knowing how it will end, in not knowing where you will end, is exactly why you should love them.”— why you should love them.
stop believing that you ran out of time to shape yourself into who you want to be! stop believing that its ruined! stop believing you don’t have potential! you are not a fixed being! you have endless opportunities to grow.
“you’re irreplaceable. no one in this world will ever be quite like you.”— this is why i love you.