Quotes added on Sunday, October 23 2016
You are fragile but you are
alive. You hurt like every other human being, sometimes for
days at a time. One
day you’ll meet a pain that doesn’t go away. Tell it,
“I may be small but I
am strong”, face it head on, say “I am a
contradiction in a
shell. That’s what makes me dangerous.”
I have to remind myself all the time, that being afraid
of things going wrong isn’t the way to make things go
right.
before
you
kiss
someone for the first time, just wait.
Take a second to look at them. They are so new, so unfamiliar.
Right now you don’t know how they taste, how their hands
will press against your skin, how they’ll breathe. You
won’t see them like this again. Look at them wanting -
the apprehension in their eyes. They don’t know either.
In their mind you are uncharted territory. Isn’t that
special? Keep it. That’s how you’ll never lose
them. Every so often afterwards look at them through these
eyes. Don’t lose that wonder. Don’t lose the
spark.
On some nights
I write because eventhough it is quite imbarrasing
it's not as imbarrasing as contemplating suicide
and the humiliation when someone spots me and sighs
not this again
so I write because
yes this again
this feeling of needing to put the pain inside
outside
taking out the trash wherther it is
cutting wrists, writing anything, jumping bridges, blowing bubbles, reading poetry, crying buckets, talking about (it), healing from (it), remembering (anything)
as long as it keeps this stinking mess outside
only for tonight
I need to put the mess outside for tonight
because I want to sleep
I want to sleep because I can't sleep
because my body want to keep hurting itself
while it wants to heal itself
this is the human condition
this is my duality
I write because eventhough it is quite imbarrasing
it's not as imbarrasing as contemplating suicide
and the humiliation when someone spots me and sighs
not this again
so I write because
yes this again
this feeling of needing to put the pain inside
outside
taking out the trash wherther it is
cutting wrists, writing anything, jumping bridges, blowing bubbles, reading poetry, crying buckets, talking about (it), healing from (it), remembering (anything)
as long as it keeps this stinking mess outside
only for tonight
I need to put the mess outside for tonight
because I want to sleep
I want to sleep because I can't sleep
because my body want to keep hurting itself
while it wants to heal itself
this is the human condition
this is my duality
There is something sick
and sorry about a world that endorses the consumption of other human
beings as if they were no more than just another material
thing—that teaches us it is OK to cycle through romances like
they were the chamber of a revolver in a game of Russian roulette.
Nothing compares to your hands, nothing like the green-gold of your eyes. My body is filled with you for days and days. you are the mirror of the night. the violent flash of lightning. the dampness of the earth. The hollow of your armpits is my shelter. my fingers touch your blood. All my joy is to feel life spring from your flower-fountain that mine keeps to fill all the paths of my nerves which are yours.
— Frida Kahlo,
The Diary of Frida
Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait
THE
MOON WILL NEVER lie to anyone. Be
like the moon. No one hates the moon or wants to kill it.
The moon does not take antidepressants and never gets sent
to prison. The moon never shot a guy in the face and ran
away. The moon has been around a long time and has never
tried to rip anyone off. The moon does not care who you
want to touch or what color you are. The moon treats
everyone the same. The moon never tries to get in on the
guest list or use your name to impress others. Be like the
moon. When others insult or belittle in an attempt to
elevate themselves, the moon sits passively and watches,
never lowering itself to anything that weak. The moon is
beautiful and bright. It needs no makeup to look beautiful.
The moon never shoves clouds out of its way so it can be
seen. The moon needs not fame or money to be powerful. The
moon never asks you to go to war to defend it. Be like the
moon.
