- "someone can be madly in love with you and still not be ready. they can love you in a way you have never been loved and still not join you on the bridge. and whatever their reasons you must leave. because you never ever have to inspire anyone to meet you on the bridge. you never ever have to convince someone to do the work to be ready. there is more extraordinary love, more love that you have never seen, out here in this wide and wild universe. and there is the love that will be ready." — nayyirah waheed
- "Are you in love or just seeking to be understood?" – Rudy Francisco
- “We never really belong to a place until we lose someone we love; we never really know a city until we start looking for them around every corner.” - Maza-Dohta
- "Sometimes I don’t even know if I’m extremely happy or extremely sad. It happens a lot when I think of you." — Antonia Michaelis
- "“Define loneliness? / Yes. / It’s what we can’t do for each other.” - Claudia Rankine
- "It’s not that he wants to be a liar; it’s just that he doesn’t know the truth.
" - Warsan Shire
- "“Everyone who terrifies you is sixty-five percent water. And everyone you love is made of stardust, and I know sometimes you cannot even breathe deeply, and the night sky is no home, and you have cried yourself to sleep enough times that you are down to your last two percent, but nothing is infinite, not even loss. You are made of the sea and the stars, and one day you are going to find yourself again.” — Finn Butler
- "Be weird. Be random. Be who you are. Because you never know who would love the person you hide.”
- “It’s a strange thing, how you can love somebody, how you can be all eaten up inside with needing them — and they simply don’t need you. That’s all there is to it, and neither of you can do anything about it. And they’ll be the same way with someone else, and someone else will be the same way about you and it goes on and on — this desperate need — and only once in a rare million do the same two people need each other.” - Madeleine L’Engle
- “In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit.” - Anne Frank
- "“To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and to endure the betrayal of false friends. To appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “You know that place between sleeping and awake, that place where you can still remember dreaming? That’s where I’ll always think of you.” ~ J.M. Barrie
- "I love people too much or not at all." - Sylvia Plath
- “Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Seduction is about intelligence and wit. Someone who makes me laugh has every chance to seduce me.” ~ Riccardo Tisci
- “It is never too late to be the person you could have been." ~ George Eliot
- "There are very few of us who have heart enough to be really in love without encouragement." - Jane Austen
- “Never forget that once upon a time, in an unguarded moment, you recognized yourself as a friend.” ~ Elizabeth Gilbert
- "Sometimes we get through adversity only by imagining what the world might be like if our dreams should ever come true." - Arthur Golde
- "I could always live in my art but never in my life." - Ingmar Bergman
- "Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole." - Derek Walcott
nov 19 2016 ∞
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