#lt

I miss your smile… but I miss mine more. ↗

— Laurel House

#breakup #letting-go #priorities #relationships #smile

Two babies in little more than a year and a half. Knockout Jimmy was forced to give up boxing and take a job in the paper mill. It broke him, and in turn, he broke us all. ↗

— Kate Avelynn

#issues #new-adult #young-adult #new-adult

Each of the dancers took a partner, the living with the dead, each to each. Bod reached out his hand and found himself touching fingers with, and gazing into the grey eyes of, the lady in the cobweb dress. She smiled at him. “Hello, Bod,” she said. “Hello,” he said, as he danced with her. “I don’t know your name.” “Names aren’t really important,” she said. “I love your horse. He’s so big! I never knew horses could be that big.” “He is gentle enough to bear the mightiest of you away on his broad back, and strong enough for the smallest of you as well.” “Can I ride him?” asked Bod. “One day,” she told him, and her cobweb skirts shimmered. “One day. Everybody does.” “Promise?” I promise. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#fantasy #young-adult #death

It's a big part of what we do - we test our movies extensively. I'm always there myself. It's sometimes difficult to sit through, especially if it's a version of the movie that's not working particularly well. ↗

— Bobby Farrelly

#big #difficult #especially #extensively #i

One egg, one embryo, one adult - normality. But a bokanovskified egg will bud, will proliferate, will divide. From eight to ninety-six buds, and every bud will grow into a perfectly formed embryo, and every embryo into a full-sized adult. Making ninety-six human beings grow where one grew before. Progress. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#brave-new-world #new-adult

Sometimes the world is so much sicker than the inmates of its institutions. ↗

— Joanne Greenberg

#hope #mental-health #mental-illness #philosophy #psychology

Real optimism is not the pep talk you give yourself. It is earned through the labor involved in emotional housekeeping. ↗

— Augusten Burroughs

#mental-health #optimism #pep-talk #mental-health

Writing my blog has saved me thousands on therapy. ↗

— Phil Cooke

#self-expression #writing #mental-health

Keedwell cites a study of depression in the Netherlands that found that most people coped better with adversity after experiencing depression. ↗

— Jan Wong

#depression #mental-health #mental-health

What do you think has become of the young and old men? And what do you think has become of the women and children? They are alive and well somewhere, The smallest sprout shows there is really no death, And if ever there was it led forward life, and does not wait at the end to arrest it, And ceas'd the moment life appear'd. All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses, And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#homage #life #poem #reflection #song