“To love your own sadness as if it were something more precious than gold is what it means to be a melancholic person. Melancholy is the intimate nature you have with your sorrow. Melancholy is the enlightenment you experience when it comes to being lost.”

— Juansen Dizon

I feel helpless not hopeless.

Some of y’all I wish would get tired of me, the rest I wish to ruin your life LOL

“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Instagram: @JAVARISXFIGHTTHOSEDEMONS

— 34 excuses for why we failed at love, Warsan Shire

my brother’s copy of the goldfinch

I love being alone <- girl who has known nothing but loneliness her entire life and so has no choice but to take comfort in it

“A problem is a chance for you to do your best.”

— Duke Ellington

“They burned the bridge, then ask why I don’t visit.”

— Ugo Eze

“I've been told that people in the army do more by 7:00 AM than I do in an entire day, but if I wake at 6:59 AM and turn to you and killed no one to trace the outline of your lips with mine, I will have done enough and killed no one in the process.”

— 6:59 AM by Shane Koyczan

“You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer