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- (jeffrey eugenides) "depression is like a bruise that never goes away. a bruise in your mind. you just got to be careful not to touch it where it hurts. it's always there, though."
- (sophia dembling) "one of the risks of being quiet is that the other people can fill your silence with their own interpretation : you're bored. you're depressed. you're shy. you're stuck up. you're judgmental. when others can't read us, they write their own story - not always one we chose or that's true to who we are."
- (george r. r. martin) "we look up at the same stars, and see such different things."
- (arabic proverb) "the smarter you get, the less you speak."
- (mark twain) "but who prays for satan? who, in 18 centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it the most?"
- (unknown) "stop thinking so hard about everything. stop over analyzing. just go. just do. if it feels right, just go with the flow. if it feels wrong, don't think about it anymore and walk away."
- (alexandra elle) "eventually you'll get tired of spilling your love all over the place. be smart about who and what you are pouring into."
- (paulo coelho) "be brave. take risks. nothing can substitute experience."
- (unknown) "go to a coffee ship. sit by the bar with the glass windows and look out. look at all the people running to catch a train. all the girls with too many shopping bags. all the couples too in love to care. then you'll see it - a bit of yourself in everyone. and somehow, sitting alone in a coffee shop has never felt so good."
- (unknown) "something will grow from all you are going through. and it will be you."
- (kait rodowski) "nothing ever ends poetically. it ends and we turn it into poetry. all that blood was never once beautiful. it was just red."
- (unknown) "one day you will wake up and there won't be any more time to do the things you've always wanted to do. do it now."
- (unknown) "when thinking about life remember this : no amount of guilt can solve the past and no amount of anxiety can change the future."
- (unknown) "don't set yourself on fire to keep others warm."
- (maggie williamson) "everyone writes on the wonder of the first love, but i see something more valuable in the second love. the kind that comes after great loss. this love is wise, and seasoned, and brave. it knows what it means to give everything, and to receive nothing in return. this kind of love doesn't seek affection blindly. it doesn't look at the world and see innocence. it knows the truth about loving : that it is not always fair and it does not always last. but in spite of all this, second love reaches out anyways. second love says even in the of heartbreak love is worth the risk."
- (unknown) "self-love, self-respect, self-worth... there is a reason they all start with "self". you cannot find them in anyone else."
- (unknown) "it's not your job to fix me. it's your job to hold my hand, while i fix myself."
- (shauna niequist) "i want to cultivate a deep sense of gratitude, of groundedness, of enough, even while i'm longing for something more. the longing and the gratitude, both. i'm practicing believing that god knows more than i know, that he sees what i can't, that he's weaving a future i can't even imagine from where i'm sitting this morning."
- (unknown) "never beg for a relationship."
- (steve irwin) "crocodiles are easy. they try to kill and eat you. people are harder. sometimes they pretend to be your friend first."
- (unknown) "you're not going to be happy all the time. no one ever is. sometimes you're just going to sort of exist, and that's okay. lean to be satisfied with "content" and "calm" and "not sad". not sad is good. not sad is great. happiness is awesome, but the universe doesn't revolve around a smile."
- (anais nin) "we do not grow absolutely, chronologically. we grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. we gros partially. we are relative. we are mature in one realm, childish in another. the past, present and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. we are made of layers, cells, constellations."
- (vincent van gogh) "there is a great difference between one idler and another idler. there is someone who is an idler out of laziness and lack of character, owing to the baseness of his nature. then there's the other kind of idler, the idler despite of himself, who is inwardly consumed by a great longing for action who does nothing because his hands are tied, because he is, so to speak, imprisoned somewhere, because he lacks what he needs to be productive, because disastrous circumstances have brought him forcibly to this end. such a one does not always know what he can do, but he nevertheless instinctively feels "i am good for something! my existence is not without reason! i know that i could be quite a different person! how can i be of use, how can i be of service? there is something inside me, but what can it be?" he is quite another idler."
- (sanditoksvig) "when i was a student at cambridge, i remember an anthropology professor holding up a picture of a bone with 28 incisions carved in it. "this is often considered to be man's first attempt at a calendar", she explained. she paused as we dutifully wrote this down. "my question to you is this - what man needs to mark 28 days? i would suggest to you that this is woman's first attempt at a calendar." it was a moment that changed my life. in that second, i stopped to question almost everything i had been taught about the past. how often had i overlooked women's contributions? how often had i sped past them as i learned of male achievements and men's place in the history books? then i read rosalind miles's book "the women's history of the world" and i knew i needed to look again. history is full of fabulous females who have been systematically ignored, forgotten or simply written out of the records. they're not all saints, they're not all geniuses, but they do deserve remembering."
- (natalie dormer) "women are typically seen as the angel or the whore, put on a pedestal or portrayed as the mistress. it's boring to have a character that is either good or bad. a modern audience is so much more sophisticated than that. if the audience can appreciate walter white, an anti hero, and all the positives and negatives of that personality and watch him on a journey, they are more than capable of doing that with a woman and a female character."
- (stephen king) "it's funny how when you were a kid, a day could last forever. then you grow up, and these years just seemed like a blink."
- (unknown) "slut shamed queens are women who have challenged the social mores and changed the world. they are women like jezebel who defended her culture and fought back against usurpers. or cleopatra who did more to keep her kingdom safe from the romans than most to the kings of her era. famous queens are those like anne boleyn, whose moral code would not allow her to be a powerful man's mistress. they are women like katherine howard who dared to have sex for pleasure, or those like catherine the great, who enjoyed ruling men as much as she enjoyed them as lovers. as a result of their strength and/or defiance of gender norms these women displayed, they have all been roundly abused in history as trollops, tramps and tarts."
- (jk rowling) "depression is the most unpleasant thing i have ever exprienced... it is that absence of being able to envisage that you will ever be cheerful again. the absence of hope. that very deadened feeling, which is so very different from feeling sad. sad hurts but it's a healthy feeling. it is a necessary thing to feel. depression is very different."
- (unknown) "i will leave such an imprint on your heart that anyone you entertain after will have to know me to understand you."
- (unknown) "everyone is a poet / some express through words / while others find their voice in the silence."
- (unknown) "be confident enough to know that you're original and different from everyone else. be humble enough to know that that doesn't mean that you're better than anyone else."
- (tatiana maslany) "i've never heard the term "strong male character". that doesn't mean anything. so what does "strong female character" mean? we're so ready to put a label on something instead of leaving room for every kind of expression, every vulnerable, weak, funny, stupid thing. it's just people, right? there are layers and levels, and you can't put somebody in a box, you know?"
- (stephen hawking) "one, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. two, never give up work. work gives you meaning and purpose, and life is empty without it. three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away."
- (haruki murakami) "someday, you'll find the right person, and you'll learn to have a lot more confidence in yourself. that's what i think. so don't settle for anything less. in this world, there are things you can only do alone and things you can only do with somebody else. it's important to combine the two in just the right amount."
- (elizabeth taylor) "just do it. you force yourself to get up. you force yourself to put one foot before the other, and god damn it, you refuse to let it get to you. you fight. you cry. you curse. then you go about the business of living. that's how i've done it. there's no other way."
- (donte collins) "loving me isn't easy / i have sharp edges / i have missing parts."
- (dead poets society) "poetry, beauty, romance, love. these are what we stay alive for."
- (hedonist poet) "can you imagine the world if we only saw souls and not bodies?"
- (lemony snicket) "it is like i will die next to a pile of pile of things i was meaning to read."
- (h.s. leoch) "i will do as devils do. fall."
- (unknown) "your arms feel more like home than any house ever did."
- (shakespeare) "look like the innocent flower / but be the serpent under it."
- (cara delevingne) "you have this one life. how do you wanna spend it? apologizing? regretting? questioning? hating yourself? dieting? running after people who don't see you? be brave. believe in yourself. do what feels good. take risks. you have this one life. make yourself proud."
- (l. m. montgomery) "night is beautiful when you are happy, comforting when you are in grief - terrible when you are lonely and unhappy."
- (azra tabassum) "wait for someone who bumps mouths clumsily with yours cause they're too busy smiling to kiss you properly. yeah. wait for that."
- (unknown) "make it happen. shock everyone."
- (melissa grey) "i like to be around all these books. they're very good at making you forget your troubles. it's like having a million friends, wrapped in paper and scrawled in ink."
- (unknown) "why should i be sad? i have lost someone who didn't love me. but they lost someone who loved them."
- (unknown) "no matter how educated, talented, rich or cool you believe you are, how you treat people ultimately tells all."
- (sylvia plath) "please don't expect me to always be good and kind and loving. there are times when i will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand."
- (joshua graham) "i survived because the fire inside me burned brighter than the fire around me."
- (unknown) "i promise you my pain wasn't poetic. it was days without sleep and pretending i was stable enough to continue."
- (albert einstein) "you have to learn the rules of the game. and then you have to play better than anyone else."
- (louis c.k) "when a person tells you that you hurt them, you don't get to decide you didn't."
- (unknown) "i'm getting bad again but i'm too tired to care."
- (azar nafisi) "you get a strange feeling when you're about to leave a place. like you'll not only miss the people you love, but you will miss the pearson you are at this time and this place, because you'll never be this way ever again."
- (unknown) "if this body weren't mine / would i still hate it?"
- (anthony de mello) There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them.
- (lana del rey) Shared my body and my mind with you / but that's all over now
- (lana del rey) My father's love was always strong / my mother's glamour lives on and on / yet still inside I felt alone / for reasons unknown to me
- (lana del rey) I was filled with poison / but blessed with beauty and rage
- (john green) "That's the thing about pain," Augustus said, and then glanced back at me. "It demands to be felt."
- (john green) Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.
- (john green) Augustus half-smiled. "Because you're beautiful. I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence."
- (kodaline) Our love was made for movie screens.
- (hishaam siddiqi) One day I woke up / and we no longer spoke the same language / i haven't heard from you since
- (jane austen - sense and sensibility) And sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in.
- (jack o’connell) "I like the ideology of there being no such thing as perfection. But I’m of the opinion that I have witnessed perfection at various times, especially in art."
- (the neightbourhood) I just can't wait for love to destroy us.
- (the neightbourhood) It rattles my lungs but my mind is tangled between your little flaws.
- (unknown) Suddenly, every song was about you.
- (unknown) What a flammable heart I've been given.
- (unknown) I hope one day you find someone who makes flowers grow even in the saddest parts of your heart.
- (the fray) 20 years / it's breaking you down / now that you understand there's no one around.
- (kodaline) You've felt this way for far too long / waiting for a change to come / you know you're not the only one.
- (selena gomez) This is a modern fairytale / no happy endings.
- (mumford & sons) You desired my attention / but denied my affections.
- (vladimir nabokov) Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul.
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