Charlotte Eriksson Quotes - Page 2

Well, at least this is what I told myself every day as I fell asleep with the fire still burning and the moon shining high up in the sky and my head spinning comforting from two bottles of wine, and I smiled with tears in my eyes because it was beautiful and so god damn sad and I did not know how to be one of those without the other.

No story is worth telling without the twists and turns. Make them count instead.

When you think your life is falling apart, it's usually falling together in disguise.

Inspiration is everywhere.

I am not collarbones or drunken letters never sent. I am not the way I leave or left or didn’t know how to handle anything,
at any time,
and I am not your fault.

Some people make you want to be a better person, and that, for me, is the purest form of love.

Do you wait for things to happen, or do you make them happen yourself? I believe in writing your own story.

So many people will tell you ”no”, and you need to find something you believe in so hard that you just smile and tell them ”watch me”. Learn to take rejection as motivation to prove people wrong. Be unstoppable. Refuse to give up, no matter what. It’s the best skill you can ever learn.

Spend more time doing things that make you forget about the time.

... and you might say “no, you will never do that, that’s not you, not who I know, not who I thought you were”
and I will say
“watch me”
for I never did this to fit in
or stand out
but to live.

When you forget about the how, go back to the why.

Find what makes you happy and go for it with all your heart. It will be hard, but I promise it will be worth it.

I wanted to say all these things about how you just have to hold on to the things you love and let go of all the rest.

It all takes time and lessons and places, but I’m learning to listen to my restless heart, telling me to “go, go, go!

Time flows smoother when you are with people you love.

It could have been so beautiful.
The way I learned and got free and swore to never love another person
ever again
and it could have been so beautiful,
the way I actually did.

Take a shower, wash off the day. Drink a glass of water. Make the room dark. Lie down and close your eyes.
Notice the silence. Notice your heart. Still beating. Still fighting. You made it, after all. You made it, another day. And you can make it one more.
You’re doing just fine.

All I wanted was my art and the chance to be the creator of my own world, my own reality.

It will not always be easy, but it will always be beautiful.

You might say “no, you will never do that, that’s not you, not who I know, not who I thought you were”, and I will say "watch me".