Nightbirde > Quotes

“You can't wait until life isn't hard anymore before you decide to be happy.”
― Nightbirde

“You can’t wait until life isn’t hard anymore, before you decide to be happy.”
― Nightbirde

“Without the mirror to remind me of my body’s weakness I would have looked at my spirit instead And seen that I am becoming invincible”
― Nightbirde, Poems for the Dark

“Pay attention to the things you’ll want to remember when all of this is over And always Always Talk about this like it’s something that will someday be over”
― Nightbirde, Poems for the Dark

“I am sorry for the canyons I dug around myself When all you have been building are bridges I am sorry for the boulders I have thrown down at you”
― Nightbirde, Poems for the Dark

“You can’t wait until life isn’t hard anymore before you decide to be happy.”
― Nightbirde

“Turns out “why?” is the heaviest question to carry. I’ve been wondering what drives us to even ask it. Why do we always expect that there even is a “why?” Where does it come from, the expectation for reason, for explanation, logic, science? I suppose for most things there is a cause and a reason. But if you follow the trail of whys long enough, you’ll always land back on the same set of islands: Because that’s just the way it is. These months have put fractures through me, shaken my bones, shattered open my heart. The miracle about it is that my heart was opened just wide enough to let all the beauty in.”
― Nightbirde, Poems for the Dark

“you have been given a plate full of injustice, use it to grow empathy If you have been heaped upon with pain, use it to grow compassion If you have been drowned in reasons to fear, use it to grow courage What we are given is often unfair, but not one of us has a single thing that did not grow from what we have been given You are not a hero for having suffered You are a hero for having grown”
― Nightbirde, Poems for the Dark

“We don’t get to choose in this life whether or not we suffer But we do get to choose what we are willing to suffer for We can suffer the darkness of a closed heart Or from the wounds welcomed with an open heart The wounds of one that risked the pain that comes with love So I will take the risk of gratefulness Of kindness, and good will, and hope for the best And the leap of believing that I am fully accepted as I am And that I have a place here”
― Nightbirde, Poems for the Dark