“If you find yourself constantly trying to prove your worth to someone, you have already forgotten your value.”
— (via purplebuddhaquotes)
“I seem to be years and years and miles and miles away from everybody and everything — If I could walk for a month I might really forget everything —”
— Georgia O’Keeffe, from a letter to Alfred Stieglitz featured in My Faraway One: Selected Letters of Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz: Volume One, 1915-1933
“The ache for home lives in all of us. The safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.”
— Maya Angelou
(via yesdarlingido)
“For a moment we are again together, two aliens trying to find home, & then you leave & I ask questions to an empty room.”
Member of the “Sorry, I didn’t hear what you just told me, because there are those two people talking 5 meters away, a child crying on the opposite sidewalk, and 3 cars passing by, on all of which my brain focused and put at equal volume in my ear instead of politely putting your sound first” squad
Does anyone else ever get the “I was listening to what you said intently, but then my brain decided to pick up that last sentence and hurl it into the sun, so even though you had my full attention and dedication I now have zero idea what you said - and the fact that this has happened has lead me to panic, thinking about how I don’t know what you said, and am now lost, and can’t listen because I’m panicking, and please stop the panic cycle please please please ple-”
Anyone?
Or you hear that they’re talking to you but your brain doesn’t register what the words are so you have to be like “Uh sorry what?”