Worry about your character, not your reputation. Your character is who you are. Your reputation is who people think you are
— (via black-culture)
Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.
— Rumi (via mermaidcunt)
Can you hate someone for what they have done, but still love them for whom they had been?
— Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes (via vivlio)
One of the best guides to how to be self-loving is to give ourselves the love we are often dreaming about receiving from others.
— bell hooks (via dark-floss)
