“Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.”— Franz Kafka

The ugliest, loneliest, most disheartening moments are gifts that, if you’re soft enough, whisper possibilities in your ear: You have more to offer. Set your sites higher. Reach deeper. Give more love to yourself and the world. This ugly moment might just be your biggest break.

Fuck embodying a physical form.  

I work so much better as a bed of moss, a tingle on the lips, a spoonful of idea, a season of rain.  

There are too many ways to be seen, when I know I was only meant to be a feeling.

“It doesn’t make sense to continue wanting something if you’re not willing to do what it takes to get it.

If you don’t want to live the lifestyle, then release yourself from the desire. To crave the result but not the process, is to guarantee disappointment.”

“Recently, I committed myself to PAYING ATTENTION TO THE ACTION I AM DOING AS I DO IT. This is expressed in events major and minor: Forcing myself to watch the mascara wand as I jostle it along my eyelashes, as much as dissolving inside a Rothko at the museum while I lean into the person I love’s shoulder, as writing a shopping list for my grandmother, as all of it. I try not to expect anything of anything, or of me, and it happens, and I love it better. Keep your eyes sharp and your head focused out instead of in. When you stop dissecting everything you go through in the world like it has the potential to augur who you are and what you do henceforth, you’ll begin to respond to the things around you honestly. You’ll just join yourself within whatever action you’re up to—you will conjure yourself by forgetting, instead of needlessly second-guessing, yourself.”

When you think it’s time to come up for air, go deeper. When you think your heart will break, stay there, stay with it. But at the same time, when you think you gotta hold onto something (like who you think you are), let go.

No matter how much you love them, you should always put yourself first