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““I’m starting to realize that people lack good mirrors. It’s so hard for anyone to show us how we look, and so hard for us to show anyone how we feel.” John Green , Paper Towns”
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“I know I’m not easy to love. I’m a chronic over-thinker. I overreact more than I should…And every once in a while, I might be a little insecure. But if I am in love with you, I can promise you wholeheartedly that you will be loved with so much passion and intensity that you’ll forget what life felt like before I came along. You will always be cared for and you will always have someone in your corner. Maybe I’m not the best at being loved - But I like to think I’m pretty good at loving.”
— Chelsea Carroll
“It’s easy to lose yourself in the idea of a person and be blinded to their reality.”
— Jay Kristoff, Stormdancer
“Let’s raise children who won’t have to recover from their childhoods.”
— Pam Leo
“Never tell a child ‘you have a soul.’ Teach him, you are a soul; you have a body.”
— George MacDonald
“There’s a special place in my heart for the ones who were with me at my lowest and still loved me when I wasn‘t very loveable.”
— Unknown
“Your healing is about you. It doesn’t need a stamp of approval. Don’t worry about how long it takes or how ugly it might seem. It is about you, and your wellbeing.”
— Unknown
“She is something new, something hopeful. Like spring to my deep winter.”
— Pierce Brown
“How someone reacts to your sadness says a lot about how long they’re going to be in your life.”
— blossomfully
“Stop looking for reasons to be unhappy. Focus on the things you do have, and the reasons you should be happy.”
— Unknown
“I have limited experience, but I know this: moments of connection with another human being are patently rare. But rarer still are those who can recognize such a connection when they see one.”
— David Arnold, Mosquitoland
"You cannot make everyone think and feel as deeply as you do. This is your tragedy, because you understand them but they do not understand you."
—Daniel Saint
"To love someone long-term is to attend a thousand funerals of the people they used to be. The people they're too exhausted to be any longer. The people they don't recognize inside themselves anymore. The people they grew out of, the people they never ended up growing into. We so badly want the people we love to get their spark back when it burns out; to become speedily found when they are lost.
But it's not our job to hold anyone accountable to the people they used to be. It's our job to travel with them between each version and to honor what emerges along the way. Sometimes it will be an even more luminescent flame. Sometimes it will be a flicker that disappears and temporarily floods the room with a perfect and necessary darkness."
—Heidi Priebe
“The best spiritual connections are the ones laced in love. A constellation of graceful vibrations traced in the space of love. The ones who empathetically move into the essence of emotional availability. To pour peace into your wounds. To heal a piece of you. The ones who fall under the universal law. A vision of certainty. A feeling destined to be. The ones who softly stretch your silence to the lengths of comprehension, an energetic channel of clear communication. The ones who ascend your sense of self-worth into the sounds of heart healing love. To connect to love. To anchor in love. To cover your soul in the colours of love. The best spiritual connections are the ones aligned with the frequency of love. The ascension of love, essentially the ascension of you.”
—Jade Torres
"You're the only person I've ever met who seems to have the faintest conception of what I mean when I say a thing."
—Virginia Woolf