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“I know. I was there. I saw the great void in your soul, and you saw mine.”
— Sebastian Faulks
I assure you, I’m not put together at all. Nor am I broken. I am recovering - finding the beautiful in the ugly and stitching it into my life.
Rachel Wolchin
“Please, I want so badly for the good things to happen.”
— Sylvia Plath
“I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations – one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is that: do it or do not do it – you will regret both.”
— Søren Kierkegaard, Either/Or
“When you’re an introvert like me and you’ve been lonely for a while, and then you find someone who understands you, you become really attached to them. It’s a real release.”
— Lana Del Rey
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you’re growing in ways you don’t realize yet
“And when you told me what your favorite book was, I bought it and read it over and over… trying to find pieces of you in it.”
— Unknown
“You can’t control how they treat you, but you can control if you accept it.”
— Charles Orlando
“Understand me well. My appeal is to observation — observation that each of you must make for yourself.”
— Charles Sanders Peirce, “On Phenomenology”, The Essential Peirce, vol 2
“Speak only when you feel that your words are better than your silence.”
— Unknown
“growth isn’t always constant. relapses happen. it doesn’t erase all your success.”
— Unknown
“Dependent origination we declare to be emptiness. It [emptiness] is a dependent concept; just that is the middle path.”
— Nāgārjuna, Mūlamadhyamakakārikā, Siderits & Katsura tr. (24:18)
“So many years of education yet nobody ever taught us how to love ourselves and why it’s so important.”
— Unknown
“Some people hate the thought of being alone. I’m not like that. I love my solitude. I’m kind to myself. My feelings don’t get hurt. My energy’s not leeched. And it’s very peaceful.”
— Unknown
“I would not be the person I am without the authors who made me what I am - the special ones, the wise ones, sometimes just the ones who got there first.”
— Neil Gaiman
“Forgive me if I don’t talk much at times. It’s loud enough in my head.”
— Unknown
“There will always be someone who can’t see your worth. Don’t let it be you.”
— Unknown
“Nobody realizes that some people expend a tremendous energy trying to be normal.”
— Albert Camus

