- “…I’ll go on being your never-enough.”
- ““Hearts are breakable,” Isabelle said. “And I think even when you heal, you’re never what you were before”.”
- “All I wanted to do was sneak out into the night and disappear somewhere, and go and find out what everybody was doing all over the country.”
- “All I’d ever wanted was to forget. but even when I thought I had, pieces had kept emerging, like bits of wood floating up to the surface that only hint at the shipwreck below.”
- “All things of myself I want to share with you.”
- “Always be kinder than you feel.”
- “And sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in.”
- “As for me, I am a watercolour. I wash off.”
- “Be with someone who makes you better.”
- “Because no one needs to live for ever. I think that sometimes you can outstay your welcome.”
- “Because words are nothing if they aren’t meant.”
- “Do not despise your own place and hour. Every place is under the stars, every place is the center of the world.”
- “Don’t let anyone, even your parents, break you. Find good people who care about you and surround yourself with just them. If you can’t find them at first, find good music and fall into it and let it hold you until they come.”
- “Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.”
- “Everything changed the day she figured out there was exactly enough time for the important things in her life.”
- “Far away the sea sounds and resounds. This is a port. Here I love you. Here I love you and the horizon hides you in vain.”
- “Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.”
- “Flatter yourself critically.”
- “Happiness is a form of courage.”
- “Happiness must be grown in one’s own garden.”
- “Having a low opinion of yourself is not modesty. It’s self-destruction.”
- “Having a soft heart in a cruel world is courage, not weakness.”
- “Healing doesn’t mean the damage never existed. It means the damage no longer controls our lives.”
- “How can emptiness be so heavy?”
- “I always feel like I’m struggling to become someone else. Like I’m trying to find a new place, grab hold of a new life, a new personality. I guess it’s part of growing up, yet it’s also an attempt to reinvent myself. By becoming a different me, I could free myself of everything. I seriously believed I could escape myself - as long as I made the effort. But I always hit a dead end. No matter where I go, I still end up me. What’s missing never changes. The scenery may change, but I’m still the same old incomplete person. The same missing elements torture me with a hunger that I can never satisfy. I guess that lack itself is as close as I’ll come to defining myself.”
- “I am constantly torn between wanting to improve myself and wanting to destroy myself.”
- “I can’t tell you just how wonderful she is. I don’t want you to know. I don’t want any one to know.”
- “I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.”
- “I care. I care a lot. It’s kinda my thing.”
- “I do this. Time after time after time, I do all this shit for other people. And then I wake up and I’m empty; I have nothing.”
- “I don’t love openly. I won’t tell the world how much I love you and I won’t express how easily I seem to be captivated by your existence but I will love you more deeply than anyone else could. I cannot begin to explain in words the depth in which I feel for you and in truth I never will but note this; I love you and there lacks a single force in the universe that can stop that intensity. I just won’t admit it.”
- “I don’t want just words. If that’s all you have for me, you’d better go.”
- “I don’t want to ruin the friendship between us for a relationship that might end, even that I like you so much.”
- “I get way too sensitive when I get attached to someone. I can detect the slightest change in the tone of their voice, and suddenly I’m spending all day trying to figure out what I did wrong.”
- “I like people with depth, I like people with emotion, I like people with a strong mind, an interesting mind, a twisted mind, and also people that can make me smile.”
- “I like to watch people. Sometimes I ride the subway all day and look at them and listen to them. I just want to figure out who they are and what they want and where they’re going.”
- “I need to make myself strong on the inside instead of what is on the outside. I know all of this, but why can’t I put any of it into action? I guess that’s why I am in this place.”
- “I never fall apart, because I never fall together.”
- “I refuse to accept other people’s ideas of happiness for me. As if there’s a one size fits all standard for happiness.”
- “I remember staying up this late just for you.”
- “I shiver, thinking how easy it is to be totally wrong about people, to see one tiny part of them and confuse it for the whole.”
- “I sometimes regret that I loved you. But I still hope that someday you’ll realize my existence.”
- “I think I still have rain somewhere in my heart.”
- “I think it’s brave to try to be happy.”
- “I want to do things for people they will never forget. Maybe that’s the best thing I can do in life.”
- “I want to leave as soon as I can. I think I was born with a suitcase.”
- “I wish friends held hands more often, like the children I see on the streets sometimes. I’m not sure why we have to grow up and get embarrassed about it.”
- “I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance”
- “I’m always happy…Sometimes I just forget.”
- “I’m just filled with so many words. Sometimes I know what to do with them, most of the time I don’t. They always wait for someone to knock, rattle the doorknob, and leave before they open the door.”
- “I’m not like you! I sometimes think you don’t think or feel or care to do anything but exist. You see that things are bad, and you pride yourself on saying so. It’s what you call being honest; as a matter of fact it’s being lazy, being dull, being nothing. You don’t help; you put an end to things.”
- “I’m sorry I gave you everything I had without making sure you wanted it.”
- “I’m sorry, I’m awful, I’ve just felt so terribly destructive all week. It’s awful. I’m horrible.”
- “I’ve got this tiny pang of regret when I think of how much I have probably missed out on in the last few years because I was too scared to take a risk, or too shy to speak up, or too worried to be bold.”
- “I’ve learned that millions of people can believe in you, and yet none of it matters if you don’t believe in yourself.”
- “If you believe you can, you might. If you know you can, you will.”
- “If you were happy with the wrong person, imagine how happy you’ll be with the right one.”
- “If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.”
- “In each of us lie good and bad, light and dark, art and pain, choice and regret, cruelty and sacrifice. We’re each of us our own chiaroscuro, our own bit of illusion fighting to emerge into something solid, something real. We’ve got to forgive ourselves that. I must remember to forgive myself. Because there is a lot of grey to work with. No one can live in the light all the time.”
- “It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all - in which case, you fail by default.”
- “It seems very safe to me to be surrounded by green growing things and water.”
- “It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.”
- “It’s just, I love to watch people too much, I guess.”
- “Lately all i really want to do is just leave and disappear. quietly in the dead of night and just travel and follow the road till my feet give out. Meet whoever and stay wherever.”
- “Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.”
- “Make your interactions with people transformational, not just transactional.”
- “Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
- “My biggest fear is that eventually you will see me the way I see myself.”
- “Never force yourself to have space in anyone’s life. Because if they really know you’re worth, they’ll surely create one for you.”
- “Nothing speaks louder or more powerfully than a life of integrity”
- “Once in a while it really hits people that they don’t have to experience the world in the way they have been told to.”
- “One day I woke up and we no longer spoke the same language. I haven’t heard from you since.”
- “One night I will say to it: Heart, be still, and it will.”
- “Our life is what our thoughts make it.”
- “Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made.”
- “Say it before you run out of time. Say it before it’s too late. Say what you’re feeling. Waiting is a mistake.”
- “Some steps need to be taken alone. It’s the only way to really figure out where you need to go and who you need to be.”
- “Some things are hard to let go of.”
- “Some walks you have to take alone.”
- “Sometimes I get up early and even my soul is wet.
- “Sometimes I think that maybe we are just stories. Like we may as well just be words on a page, because we’re only what we’ve done and what we are going to do.”
- “Sometimes we get sad about things and we don’t like to tell other people that we are sad about them. We like to keep it a secret. Or sometimes, we are sad but we really don’t know why we are sad, so we say we aren’t sad but we really are.”
- “Sometimes you can learn, even from a bad experience. By coping you become stronger. The pain does not go away, but it becomes manageable.”
- “Sometimes you have to forget what you feel, and remember what you deserve.”
- “Sometimes you weren’t supposed to share pain. Sometimes it was best just to deal with it alone.”
- “Sometimes your heart needs more time to accept what your mind already knows.”
- “Sometimes, I sit alone under the stars and think of the galaxies inside my heart, and truly wonder if anyone will ever want to make sense of all that I am.”
- “Spend a little more time trying to make something of yourself & a little less time trying to impress people.”
- “Stop breaking yourself to make more room for other people.”
- “The less I needed, the better I felt.”
- “The oddest things hurt me. They get stuck in my head and replay over and over.”
- “The real things haven’t changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong.”
- “The sign of a beautiful person is that they always see beauty in others.”
- “The true mark of maturity is when somebody hurts you and you try to understand their situation instead of trying to hurt them back.”
- “The truth is, I pretend to be a cynic, but I am really a dreamer who is terrified of wanting something she may never get.”
- “There are so many ways to be brave in this world. Sometimes it involves giving up everything you have ever known, or everyone you have ever loved for the sake of something greater.”
- “There is growth in pain, it may not be the growth we want, but it is growth none the less; So learn, feel, breath, go forward and know what it is to be.”
- “There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves; it is not my nature. My attachments are always excessively strong.”
- “Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune. ”
- “To be alone is to be different, to be different is to be alone.”
- “Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep, really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.”
- “Wake up early. Drink coffee. Work hard. Be ambitious. Keep your priorities straight, your mind right and your head up. Do well, live well and dress really well. Do what you love, love what you do. It is time to start living.”
- “Watch out for each other. Love everyone and forgive everyone, including yourself. Forgive your anger. Forgive your guilt. Your shame. Your sadness. Embrace and open up your love, your joy, your truth, and most especially your heart.”
- “We are unusual and tragic and alive.”
- “We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.”
- “We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreparably broken.”
- “What if nothing was happening, and we finally had the time to sit and think, but our minds were as minimalistic as the room, as blank as our faces, and as empty as our eyes?”
- “When you are attracted to people, it’s because of the details. Their kindness. Their eyes. The fact that they can get you to laugh when you need it the most.”
- “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”
- “You are allowed to be alive. You are allowed to be somebody different. You are allowed to not say goodbye to anybody or explain a single thing to anyone, ever.”
- “You attract the right things when you have a sense of who you are.”
- “You can ask the universe for all the signs you want, but ultimately, we see what we want to see when we’re ready to see it.”
- “You can stay in the same place and still find ways to leave people.”
- “You can’t understand where someone’s going unless you understand where they’ve been.”
- “You deserve the kind of love you would give someone else.”
- “You don’t need to be perfect to inspire others. Let people get inspired by how you deal with your imperfection.”
- “You have to learn to say no without feeling guilty. Setting boundaries is healthy. You need to learn to respect and take care of yourself.”
- “You will be shocked, kids, when you discover how easy it is in life to part ways with people forever. That’s why, when you find someone you want to keep around, you do something about it.”
- “You will be shocked, kids, when you discover how easy it is in life to part ways with people forever. That’s why, when you find someone you want to keep around, you do something about it.”
- “You’ve a good heart. Sometimes that’s enough to see you safe wherever you go. But mostly, it’s not.”
- “Despite all my sickness, I have grown. In my growth I learned some important things. One of them is that I pick you. Not just that I need you (for I do) but that even without the need I can make a choice and the choice is you.”
- ““My heart was in love once.” “What happened?” “My brain began to think. So it ended.””
- “My mouth can’t translate the things my heart says.”
- “Being alone helps me to understand my self to the soul level.”
- “You do not have to understand my pain, for you have your own. I cannot fix a broken you, only mend a wounded I.”
- “I’m trying. Trying what? Trying to be.”
- “Why do I keep worrying the most about situations I can’t control in the least? Why do I keep worrying the most about the things that matter the least? Why do I keep worrying the most about people who care the least?”
- “I think that little by little I’ll be able to solve my problems and survive.”
- “Yet in their absence I seemed to love them so much.”
- “I am a pessimist with a secret hope, a failure with small successes, a darkness with glimpses of light. I am a contradiction within itself and there’s nothing else I’d rather be.”
- “I’m a walking, talking contradiction.”
- “I’m not very good at putting my feelings into words. That’s why people misunderstand me.”
jan 2 2014 ∞
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