Grad Student, new mom, former idiot, a 31 year old narcissist in the mental health counseling field somewhere in Dallas, TX.
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
My own opinion is enough for me, and I claim the right to have it defended against any consensus, any majority, anywhere, any place, any time. And anyone who disagrees with this can pick a number, get in line, and kiss my ass.
― Christopher Hitchens
All I’d ever wanted was to forget. But even when I thought I had, pieces had kept emerging, like bits of wood floating up to the surface that only hint at the shipwreck below. Because that is what happens when you try to run from the past. It doesn’t just catch up: it overtakes, blotting out the future, the landscape, the very sky, until there is no path left except that which leads through it, the only one that can ever get you home.
Sarah Dessen (via slekes)
I am not eccentric. It’s just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of goldfish.
Edith Sitwell
(Source: journalofanobody)
Love is by definition an unmerited gift; being loved without meriting it is the very proof of real love. If a woman tells me: I love you because you’re intelligent, because you’re decent, because you buy me gifts, because you don’t chase women, because you do the dishes, then I’m disappointed; such love seems a rather self-interested business. How much finer it is to hear: I’m crazy about you even though you’re neither intelligent nor decent, even though you’re a liar, an egotist, a bastard.
Milan Kundera
(Source: veareflejos)
Don’t take anything personally. Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won’t be the victim of needless suffering.
-Miguel Ruiz
This is one of those things I wish I could have explained, in-depth, to a younger version of myself. Better late than never.
Happiness is leaving everyone and everything alone…This gives you the freedom to enjoy the events that swirl and move around you…You watch with smiling eyes,knowing that now is the time ,to begin to live ,without the needs of a self that is no longer you…….
parkstepp
(Source: parkstepp)
