An inner ease spreads inside me. Such is the power of acceptance and understanding from other people, the power of validation

Kiera Van Gelder
Some Similar Quotes
  1. I will be stronger than my sadness. - Jasmine Warga

  2. The true definition of mental illness is when the majority of your time is spent in the past or future, but rarely living in the realism of NOW. - Shannon L. Alder

  3. For someone like myself in whom the ability to trust others is so cracked and broken that I am wretchedly timid and am forever trying to read the expression on people's faces. - Osamu Dazai

  4. He was fucking sad. That's it. That's the point. He knows life is never going to get any different for him. That there's no fixing him. It's always going to be the same monotonous depressing bullshit. Boring, sad, boring, sad. He just wants it to... - Jasmine Warga

  5. One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star. - Friedrich Nietzsche

More Quotes By Kiera Van Gelder
  1. I’m not interested in Bob Marley telling me to ‘lively up’ myself. The only music that satisfies me is Nine Inch Nails and Trent Reznor’s voice crying through industrial rhytms. In the August evenings, I lie on my bed with earphones, letting his laments roll...

  2. In some ways, com­ing to terms with my­self and work­ing to­ward re­cov­ery has been like say­ing “I love you” to some­one but keep­ing a loaded gun hid­den in your back pocket, just in case that per­son pisses you off enough.

  3. DBT's catchphrase of developing a life worth living means you're not just surviving; rather, you have good reasons for living. I'm also getting better at keeping another dialectic in mind: On the one hand, the disorder decimates all relationships and social functions, so you're basically...

  4. I'm so good at beginnings, but in the end I always seem to destroy everything, including myself.

  5. Thirty seconds of pure awareness is a long time, especially after a lifetime of escaping yourself at all costs.

Related Topics