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“Sometimes, a person isn’t looking to increase their lifestyle, status or ego when they fall in love. Sometimes, they just want that special someone that is just like them. The one person that truly understands how they suffer because they have gone through it too. They want to wake up beside someone that knows their trials intimately. They want a teammate that doesn’t say they get it, but someone who knows it, lived it and survived it. They have been looking for that person their entire life because they feel alone and misunderstood. They are tired of people telling them not to care about other people, when that is not who God designed them to be. The depth of their soul can’t be reached by their partner standing at the top looking down. They want to come home to their “own kind”--the person that has run the same dark corridors they have traveled in their mind. They want to build a life with someone that would never break their heart, push them away or give up on them. They don’t want the person that has to win. They want the rescuer that has been to the fearful boundaries of their heart, but knows the way back to life. When they meet this person they will never forget them because they will come into their life with all the fire they possess and never leave their soul.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Once in a lifetime, you meet that special someone. That someone that took your breath away every single time. That someone that caused your heart to shatter into a million shards and fall like rain.”
― Amy Lane, If I Must

“I have seen your
darkest nights
and brightest days
and I want you to know
that I will be here
forever
loving you
in dusk.”
― Atticus Poetry, Love Her Wild

“I let her go
because I knew she could do better
and now she's gone
I wonder
if I should've
just been better.”
― Atticus Poetry, Love Her Wild

“a
world
where all

human beings
are taken care of

shouldn't be called

a "revolutionary"
way of life

& yet
it is.

-burn”
― Amanda Lovelace, The Princess Saves Herself in This One

“do you
ever
find
yourself
nostalgic
for
the life
you never
got to
have?”
― Amanda Lovelace, The Mermaid's Voice Returns in This One

“I hear a thousand kind words about me
and it makes no difference
yet i hear one insult
and all confidence shatters

- focusing on the negative”
― Rupi Kaur, The Sun and Her Flowers

“You do not just wake up and become the butterfly"
-Growth is a process.”
― Rupi Kaur, The Sun and Her Flowers

“it has been one of the greatest and most difficult years of my life. i learned everything is temporary. moments. feelings. people. flowers. i learned love is about giving. everything. and letting it hurt. i learned vulnerability is always the right choice because it is easy to be cold in a world that makes it so very difficult to remain soft. i learned all things come in twos. life and death. pain and joy. salt and sugar. me and you. it is the balance of the universe. it has been the year of hurting so bad but living so good. making friends out of strangers. making strangers out of friends. learning mint chocolate chip ice cream will fix just about everything. and for the pains it can’t there will always be my mother’s arms. we must learn to focus on warm energy. always. soak our limbs in it and become better lovers to the world. for if we can’t learn to be kind to each other how will we ever learn to be kind to the most desperate parts of ourselves.”
― Rupi Kaur, The Sun and Her Flowers

“i am sorry this world
could not keep you safe
may your journey home
be a soft and peaceful one

- rest in peace”
― Rupi Kaur, The Sun and Her Flowers

“the world gives you so much pain and here you are making gold out of it
- there is nothing purer than that”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey

“The worst happened, and then it passed. You lost the person you thought you couldn’t live without and then you kept living. You lost your job then found another one. You began to realize that “safety” isn’t in certainty—but in faith that you can simply keep going.”
― Brianna Wiest, 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think

“People grow apart. Distance doesn’t always mean miles. Sometimes it means two friends going separate ways. The person you poured your heart out to, traveled through new cities with, called at three in the morning just to get ice cream, suddenly becomes someone who can’t even text you back. So, you start to wonder what happened and where it all went wrong. How can this person who was once your lifeline now be a stranger who holds all your memories? But people change and become caught up in their own lives. They may not even realize they are doing it. Sometimes friends disappear and we don’t know why. But you don’t deserve to be ignored. The things you have to say are important; you should never allow someone to make you feel as though they aren’t. You should never tolerate someone who can’t acknowledge the news you have to share. You don’t need this in your life. Let go of people who don’t make you happy.”
― Courtney Peppernell, Pillow Thoughts II: Healing the Heart

“Some chapters don't have happy endings. But you read on anyway, and I think that's the point. Not to be happy all the time but to know the sun always comes back around.”
― Courtney Peppernell, Healing the Heart

“you’re the moon
and the world is
a lonely wolf; it cries
at the sight of you
for you are glorious
and so out of reach”
― Noor Unnahar, Yesterday I Was the Moon

“who were you
before you decided
to let the world
dictate who you’d become
sure enough
you’ve always been beautiful
and yet you’ve struggled to see this
because society took your truth
then replaced it with lies
i wish you knew
just how remarkable you are
i wish you knew
just how amazing you already were
before the world
told you who you should be”
― R.H. Sin, She Felt Like Feeling Nothing (Volume 1)

“thank you love.
i know you
you’re the girl
with a smile on her face
and sadness in her eyes
you’re the girl
refusing to let life
break you
you’re the girl
who always survives
you’re the one
who inspired these words
and so
i thank God for you”
― R.H. Sin, She Felt Like Feeling Nothing (Volume 1)

“i want a love that doesn't break
one that gives me water
when i am consumed by fire
one that offers me shelter
when i am lose
one that helps me see
that the hero
i am looking for
is me”
― yung pueblo, Inward

“In her eyes, the sadness sings—of one who was destined, for better things.”
― Lang Leav, Love & Misadventure

“be love. embrace love in all forms. let go of fear of love. realize love is all you need. create a life full of romance. light candles and incense. wear perfume. buy yourself gifts for no reason. be open to receiving. realize that the only person who can stop you from living your dream is you. and you are deserving of a life worth dreaming about.”
― Michaela Angemeer, Poems for the Signs

“i’ve been shining for others
for so long that
i forgot what it felt like
to shine for myself the star”
― Michaela Angemeer, Poems for the Signs

“emptied my cup to fill up yours until i learned that there’s no point in watering something that doesn’t want to grow”
― Michaela Angemeer, Poems for the Signs

“Tonight I'm thinking about the beauty of embracing life's chaos with knowing that we can't choose a lot of things, but we can choose to be good people. we can choose to love without ulterior motives, and to be stronger than our emotions makes us feel, and to always keep spinning forward. it's all okay, it always will be.”
― Madisen Kuhn, Please Don't Go Before I Get Better

“If I never see you again
I will always carry you
inside
outside

on my fingertips
and at brain edges

and in centers
centers
of what I am of
what remains.”
― Charles Bukowski, Living on Luck

“dear today,

i spend all of you pretending i'm okay when i'm not, pretending i'm happy when i'm not, pretending about everything to everyone.”
― Nina LaCour, Hold Still

“I became good at pretending. I became so good that after a while the lines blurred between my truth and fiction. And sometimes, when I did a really good job of pretending, I even fooled myself.”
― Ruta Sepetys, Salt to the Sea

“I am not a broken heart.
I am not collarbones or drunken letters never sent. I am not the way I leave or left or didn’t know how to handle anything,
at any time,
and I am not your fault.”
― Charlotte Eriksson

“Find balance in your life. Work hard but don’t let work take over your life, you will lose yourself. Love, but love for the right reasons. Life is too short for anything mediocre. Know who you are and know that you are worthy of reaching your dreams and that it is never too late to start creating that life you have always dreamed of. Do not compare yourself to others, that’s just deadly. No two souls are the same. You are your own person, you are beautiful and you are unique. Put your trust in the universe. Some things are just meant to happen, and some are not. Let go of whatever is stealing your happiness, it’s hard but it is worth it. Embrace change. Embrace life. Everything happens for a reason, sometimes you just need to breathe, trust and let go.”
― Charlotte Freeman

“Real love doesn’t hurt. Real love doesn’t make you feel inadequate. Real love is enough. Real love stays.”
― Charlotte Freeman, Everything You’ll Ever Need: You Can Find Within Yourself

“FORGIVE Make sure you forgive yourself for the mistakes you made when you were growing. Make sure you forgive yourself for the mistakes you made before you knew what you know now.”
― Charlotte Freeman, Everything You’ll Ever Need: You Can Find Within Yourself