“I survived because the fire inside me burned brighter than the fire around me.”
— Joshua Graham
“Let me be, was all I wanted. Be what I am, no matter how I am.”
— Henry Miller
“What is the point of being alive if you don’t at least try to do something remarkable?”
— John Green, An Abundance of Katherines
“If you want to give light to others you have to glow yourself.”
— Thomas S. Monson
“Everything you do is triggered by an emotion of either desire or fear.”
— Brian Tracy
“Quitting’s not hard. Deciding to quit is hard. Once you make that mental leap, the rest is easy.”
— Gayle Forman, Where She Went
“You want to see people as extremes. Bad or good, trustworthy or not. I understand. It’s easier that way. But that isn’t how people work.”
— Veronica Roth, Carve the Mark
“When a person tells you that you hurt them, you don’t get to decide that you didn’t.”
— Louis C.K.
“Just because someone hurts you doesn’t mean you can simply stop loving them. It’s not a person’s actions that hurt the most. It’s the love. If there was no love attached to the action, the pain would be a little easier to bear.”
— Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us
“Some things go too deep to be forgotten.”
— John Galsworthy, The Forsyte Saga
You cannot make everyone think and feel as deeply as you do. This is your tragedy … because you understand them, and they do not understand you.
Daniel Saint
“Behind every strong person lies a broken child who had to learn to stand up and take no shit.”
— lonerwolf
“Deep in your wounds are seeds waiting to grow into beautiful flowers.”
— Niti Majethia
Source: quotemadness.com
“Some people would rather live in a hell they’ve got used to than in a paradise they’ve never experienced before.”
— Urania Sarri
This isn’t like it was before;
That nighttime which I would not allow to turn into day.
I wake and amble amongst the living with blackened veins imbedded under pinkish skin.
She stayed in bed, now I enthusiastically avoid it -
but I can’t avoid her.
Can’t avoid the swelling sensation of me in colourless shades tearing all of these layers away.
Outgrowing myself and the need to remain hidden, and docile, and exceedingly empty.
This version of me is violently dissatisfied.
“I feel unspeakably lonely. And I feel - drained. It is a blank state of mind and soul I cannot describe to you as I think it would not make any difference. Also it is a very private feeling I have - that of melting into a perpetual nervous breakdown. I am often questioning myself what I further want to do, who I further wish to be; which parts of me, exactly, are still functioning properly. No answers, darling. At all.”
— Anne Sexton
“And I’m trying to learn brave doesn’t always mean building walls and burning people with fire as protection. I’m trying to learn the kind of brave you taught me - pulling down the gates, letting go of control…”
— Sade Andria Zabala, You Make Me Feel Human
“So I drank one, it became four, and when I fell on the floor I drank more. Nothing has changed, I still love you, I still love you.”
— Morrissey