- "I've got my fingers crossed, and my hopes are high, so I'll try to stay calm, try to stay dry. I don't know why I let you into my life, into my heart, into my lungs, into my mind" Allison Weiss- Fingers Crossed
- “Detachment is not that you should own nothing, but that nothing should own you." - Ali ibn abi Talib
- “I came to a point where I needed solitude and just stop the machine of ‘thinking’ and ‘enjoying’ what they call ‘living’, I just wanted to lie in the grass and look at the clouds.” - Jack Kerouac
- “Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply." - Stephen R. Covey
- “Where’d you grow up?” “We’re growing up right now.” (Cambridge, MA)Humansofnewyork.com
- “We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.” - E.E. Cummings
- “If you say that this is absurd, and that we cannot be in love with everyone at once, I merely point out to you that, as a matter of fact, certain persons do exist with an enormous capacity for friendship and for taking delight in other people’s lives; and ‘that such persons know more of truth than if their hearts were not so big.” - William James, What Makes a Life Significant?
- “The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.” - Frederick Buechner, Vocation
- “Spend your lives spreading the gospel of God for the glory of God to the ends of the earth. As you go, trust in his sovereign authority, depend on his underling presence, and experience his incomparable joy.” - David Platt
- These lies are ropes and I tied them to my stomach, but they hold this ship together tossed like leaves in this weather. My dreams are sails that I point towards my true north stretched thin over my rib bones and pray that it gets better, but it won't, at least I don't believe it will so. So I've built a wooden heart inside this iron ship to sail these blood red seas and find your coast. Don't let these waves wash away your hopes. This war ship is sinking and I still believe in anchors. Pulling fistfuls of rotten wood from my heart, oh I still believe in saviours. 'Cause we are all made out of shipwrecks, every single board, washed and bound like crooked teeth on these rocky shores. So come on and let's wash each other with tears of joy and tears of grief, and fold our lives like crashing waves and run upon this beach. Come on and sew us together, just some tattered rags stained forever. We only have what we remember." Wooden Heart by Listener
- “You tried to change didn’t you? Closed your mouth more, tried to be softer, prettier, less volatile, less awake. But even when sleeping you could feel him traveling away from you in his dreams. So what did you want to do, love, split his head open? You can’t make homes out of human beings. Someone should have already told you that. And if he wants to leave, then let him leave. You are terrifying and strange and beautiful, something not everyone knows how to love.” - “For Women Who Are Difficult to Love,” Warsan Shire
- "I suffered. I learned. I changed." - Famous Arabic quote
- “Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say “My tooth is aching” than to say “My heart is broken." - C.S. Lewis
- "Be miserable or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice." - Wayne Dyer
- "I'm gonna be your Bubblegum Bitch" - Marina and the Diamonds
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