#ling

...but don't tell me I'm not sensitive to beauty. That's my Achilles' heel, and don't you forget it. To me, everything is beautiful. Show me a pink sunset and I'm limp, by God... ↗

— J.D. Salinger

#franny-and-zooey #j-d-salinger #jd-salinger #life #literature

Many survivors insist they’re not courageous: ‘If I were courageous I would have stopped the abuse.’ ‘If I were courageous, I wouldn’t be scared’... Most of us have it mixed up. You don’t start with courage and then face fear. You become courageous because you face your fear.” The Courage to Heal Workbook by Laura Davis ↗

— Laura Davis

#child-sexual-abuse #courage #fear #healing #mental-health

You can recognize survivors of abuse by their courage. When silence is so very inviting, they step forward and share their truth so others know they aren't alone. ↗

— Jeanne McElvaney

#abuse-survivors #childhood-abuse #childhood-sexual-abuse #effects-of-child-abuse #harrietta-s-happenstance

Beauty, happiness, they're things so big they can't capture them with their scientific words. It's like what they used to call magic. ↗

— Heather Anastasiu

#feeling-infinite #happiness #infinite #magic #beauty

You had to break, to be unbroken. In the brokenness, I had found, that which was unbroken. That which was perfect, and beautiful, and complete. ↗

— T. Scott McLeod

#healing-in-the-hurting-places #healing-the-emotional-self #imperfections #perfection #beauty

I absolutely, positively hate this beautiful, magical feeling. ↗

— Colleen Hoover

#love #beauty

Fighting and writing’s deepest layers of beauty lie not only in the physical and mental realms of what we know, but also as an incognizable instinct, a realm we will never fully know but will forever feel. ↗

— Cameron Conaway

#feelings #fighting #instinct #writing #beauty

Maybe that was the problem," Jacob said softly. "Don't we all need to feel needed? That we'd be missed if we were gone? ↗

— Justina Chen

#missed #needed #beauty

There, in the shimmering distance, was a sail. I stared in momentary disbelief, but there it was, one of the most beautiful sights the Pacific can ever offer — a ship in full sail edging her way through the blue waters. ↗

— Tom Neale

#beauty

Willing emancipates: for willing is creating: so do I teach. And only for creating shall you learn! ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#thus-spoke-zarathustram #willing #beauty