“Feeling of discontinuity as a person. My various selves… how do they all come together? And anxiety at moments of transition from one “role” to another. Will I make it fifteen minutes from now? Be able to step into, inhabit the person I’m supposed to be? This is felt as an infinitely hazardous leap, no matter how often it’s successfully executed.”
— Susan Sontag, from As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks 1964-1980 (via luthienne)
““Tell me that you hate me.””
— The Wicked King, Holly Black
Truthfully, personal growth isn’t always sunshine and rainbows. It’s not only about rejoicing our stronger selves. Growth also involves inner work with our dark sides; those parts of ourselves that we neglect. Both light and dark, we must experience them both.
Nicole Addison @thepowerwithin
my scars are fading but my sadness isn’t
“I do not know who I am, where I am going - and I am the one who has to decide the answers to these hideous questions.”
— Sylvia Plath
“When a flower doesn’t bloom, you fix the environment in which it grows, not the flower.”
— Alexander den Heijer
“How can you say you love one person when there are ten thousand people in the world that you would love more if you ever meet them? But you’ll never meet them. All right, so we do the best we can. Granted. But we must still realize that love is just the result of a chance encounter.”
— Charles Bukowski
A series of portraits of all of the explosions from Mob Psycho 100 inspired by both the anime and manga panels. Finally finished after almost a year since making the first one *high-fives myself* TTvTT
which one’s your favorite? 🤯
(you can find a gif of all of them (flashing tw) and links to prints under the cut)
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