“If All You Can Do Is Crawl, Start Crawling.”

if you rest a lot because you are chronically fatigued, that’s okay. if you find it hard to focus or accomplish tasks because you are always tired or always in pain, that’s okay. you are not a bad person for requiring more rest than most. you are not a bad student or bad worker. it is not your fault. you do not deserve the hate you aim at yourself.

Susan Sontag, from As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks 1964-1980

improving > impressing

academia is 50% crying, 20% research, and 30% coming up with funny titles for every paper that you write

Just because you’re trash doesn’t mean you can’t do great things. It’s called garbage can, not garbage cannot.

you’re wrong.

sometimes you just need to let go to see what happens

"Doing your best" means "doing what you can without harming your mental and physical health" not "doing something with no regards for your own limits."

Before January ends, I’m going to magically and extremely be blessed by the universe.

“Growing Around Grief”

Lois Tonkin, 1996