- “absence and lack of communication makes the heart idealise a person and subconsciously twist one’s perception of them into something greater than they really are”
- “Always be mindful of what you say, for your words are nothing but a reflection of your heart.”
- “Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.”
- “choose someone who reminds you to drink water; who’s vocabulary is a kind of poem”
- “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
- “Don’t give people so much power over you that their silence leaves you questioning your worth.”
- “Don’t waste sunsets with people who will be gone by sunrise.”
- “Feelings and emotions don’t always have to make sense. If it’s bothering you, then it matters. What you feel is valid. You are valid.”
- “How fragile we are, between the few good moments.”
- “I believe that words are strong, that they can overwhelm what we fear when fear seems more awful than life is good.”
- “I think that’s what scares me: the randomness of everything. That the people who could be important to you might just pass you by. Or you pass them by.”
- “i want to ask everyone i meet, what do you read when you are in love, and, what do you read when they do not love you back?”
- “I’m a very strong believer that whoever is meant to be in your life will always gravitate back towards you, regardless how far they wander.”
- “I’ve been wondering, how do you tell someone the truth and not lose them forever?”
- “If opening your eyes, or getting out of bed, or holding a spoon, or combing your hair is the daunting Mount Everest you climb today, that is okay.”
- “If you wake up at a different time, in a different place, could you wake up as a different person?”
- “It’s never the changes we want that change everything.”
- “Just remember that sometimes, the way you think about a person isn’t the way they actually are.”
- “Keep the ones that heard you when you never said a word.”
- “Life is a barter of choice and consequences.”
- “Life is made of so many moments that mean nothing. Then one day, a single moment comes along to define every second that comes after. Such moments are tests of courage, of strength.”
- “Listen closely… the eternal hush of silence goes on and on throughout all this, and has been going on, and will go on and on. This is because the world is nothing but a dream and is just thought of and the everlasting eternity pays no attention to it.”
- “Love your parents. We are so busy growing up, we often forget they are also growing old.”
- “Maybe we feel empty because we leave pieces of ourselves in everything we used to love.”
- “Most of our childhood is stored not in photos, but in certain biscuits, lights of day, smells, textures of carpet.”
- “One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”
- “Self-talk reflects your innermost feelings”
- “Since the world has changed so much, the same values don’t lead to the same choices anymore.”
- “some of the best souls are the most tormented ones and, chances are if you’re reading this you’re one of the unlucky ones”
- “Sometimes we expect more from others because we would be willing to do that much for them.”
- “Sometimes…it’s easier to tell a stranger something very personal. It’s like there’s less risk, opening yourself up to someone who doesn’t know you.”
- “Study the hurtful patterns of your life. Then don’t repeat them.”
- “The only normal people are the ones you don’t know very well.”
- “The truth is, some relationships are supposed to last forever, and some are only supposed to last a few days. That’s the way life is.”
- “There is a courage of happiness as well as a courage of sorrow.”
- “There is hope, but not for us.”
- “There is nothing prettier than a city at 5 AM with its empty streets and cold wind”
- “There’s nothing wrong with not understanding yourself.”
- “There’s really no shortcut to forgetting someone. You just have to endure missing them everyday until you don’t anymore.”
- “Until we find each other, we are alone.”
- “We lie best when we lie to ourselves.”
- “We sometimes think we want to disappear, but all we really want is to be found.”
- “We were all brought up to want things and maybe the world isn’t big enough for all that wanting. I don’t know. I don’t know anything.”
- “What happens to all of those thoughts we never say out loud? Where do they go?”
- “When you show up with kindness, others can be more themselves.”
- “Why hurt someone whose only intention was to love you?”
- “Will you tolerate the strangeness inside of me, the quirks of my soul?”
- “Words are such uncertain things, they so often sound well but mean the opposite of what one thinks they do.”
- “You are so brave and quiet I forget you are suffering.”
- “You are the silence in between what I thought and what I said.”
- “You can’t measure the mutual affection of two human beings by the number of words they exchange.”
- “You don’t meet people by accident.”
- “You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.”
- “You think you know someone. But mostly you just know what you want to know.”
- “You can heal with love, but you can also heal with pain.”
- “No one’s life seems great between midnight and 7 a.m. Go to sleep. Things will be better tomorrow.”
- “I want to text you. Just to remind you that I’m still here. But then I remember that you know I’m here. You just don’t care.”
- “We just got to accept that some people can only be in our hearts, not in our lives.”
- “When you can’t be honest with people, you can’t ever relax with them.”
- “Usually we walk around constantly believing ourselves. “I’m okay” we say. “I’m alright”.
- “But sometimes the truth arrives on you and you can’t get it off. That’s when you realize that sometimes it isn’t even an answer –it’s a question. Even now, I wonder how much of my life is convinced.”
- “There are years that ask questions and years that answer.”
- “And most important, I’ll choose to believe that sometimes the happiest ending isn’t the one you keep longing for, but something you absolutely cannot see from where you are.”
- “I know I’m not myself with people… But am I myself when alone? That seems unlikely, too.”
- “The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth.”
- “I am all that I never wanted to be, yet I am all that I could be.”
- “I wonder how much of what weighs me down is not mine to carry.”
- “Some people will never understand the kind of superpower it takes for some people to just walk outside.”
- “People may not tell you how they feel about you, but they always show you. Pay attention.”
- “The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.”
- “Sometimes I remind myself that I almost skipped the party, that I almost went to a different college, that the whim of a minute could have changed everything and everyone. Our lives, so settled, so specific, are built on happenstance.”
apr 22 2015 ∞
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