“As long as you are worried about what others think of you, you are owned by them.”
— Neale Donald Walsch
Let people know how you feel. Let them know now. Show your feelings. Forget about your concerns and obstacles for a minute. I know it’s hard. But you never know. Maybe it will be too late some day. Hiding your feelings is a lot more risky than showing them.
“I am so afraid of disappointing the people I love, I often forget that I am someone I love too. And I need kindness just as much as I believe the people I love do.”
— Nikita Gill
“When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.”
— Maya Angelou
“Love is more than three words mumbled before bedtime. Love is sustained by action, a pattern of devotion in things we do for each other every day.”
— Nicholas Sparks
“The silence depressed me. It wasn’t the silence of silence. It was my own silence.”
— Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
“The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much and forgetting that you are special too.”
— Ernest Hemingway
“I don’t want just words. If that’s all you have for me, you’d better go.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
“I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.”
— Franz Kafka
“There’s a corner of my heart that is yours. And I don’t mean for now, or until I’ve found somebody else, I mean forever. I mean to say that whether I fall in love a thousand times over or once or never again, there’ll always be a small quiet place in my heart that belongs only to you.”
— Beau Taplin
“We met at the wrong time. That’s what I keep telling myself anyway. Maybe one day years from now, we’ll meet in a coffee shop in a far away city somewhere and we could give it another shot.”
— Unknown
“Technically, he wasn’t an ex-boyfriend, but he was an ex-something. An ex-maybe. An ex-almost.”
— Unknown
“Sometimes human beings have to just sit in one place and hurt.”
— David Foster Wallace
“Someone can be madly in love with you and still not be ready. They can love you in a way you have never been loved and still not join you on the bridge. And whatever their reasons you must leave. Because you never ever have to inspire anyone to meet you on the bridge. You never ever have to convince someone to do the work to be ready. There is more extraordinary love, more love that you have never seen, out here in this wide and wild universe. And there is the love that will be ready.”
— Nayyirah Waheed