Pillow Thoughts

by Courtney Peppernell

you are every flower, lovely from the start.

You are needed, so please choose to stay alive.

I have come to know that it is better to feel than to feel nothing at all.

You will make hard decisions and easy decisions, but they are all important.

You need love, and love needs you. You are the sun, and the moon, and every star and you deserve someone who will cross the universe for you.

Forgive, even if you are angry.

You can be miles apart, but this will never measure the way you feel when your best friend says exactly what you need to hear.

Don’t stay bitter for too long. Learn, move on, and grow.

Remember to try and t...

Do not change your inner values and who you truly are for anyone.

try to stay humble.

just remember that magic grows in flowers,

Some days will always be harder than others. Be patient with yourself; you have won many battles but the war will take time.

Be kinder to the thoughts in your head;

Be a friend to yourself, not an enemy.

The earth has a heart and you exist somewhere inside, so if you need a reason to stay, take a moment, a deep breath; don’t go breaking the earth’s heart now.

Your existence is important. You are important.

Be kind to yourself, the way you would be to someone you love.

Things might not get better tomorrow. You may have many tomorrows and nothing changes. But that is not the point. The point of moving through all these tomorrows is to get to the one tomorrow that finally does get better.

Your sadness is never going to be neat and tidy,

There will be moments where you have to convince yourself that feeling is better than being numb and that your aching bones are strong enough to carry on.

There will be days where you take steps backward and those new steps forward feel very far away.

But even in the difficulty you are still taking steps; you are still making progress.

You will always be somebody to someone else. You will always need other people. And coffee, you will always need good coffee too.

Of course there will be moments when you feel as though you are completely out of options. But there will be one option to always start with: forgive yourself.

There is always going to be chaos. Humans are made to be messy. Yet even in the hurricane there is a calm that will radiate. It spreads after any disaste...