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  • #1
    Sanober  Khan
    “my dear,
    we are all made of water.
    it's okay to rage. sometimes
    it's okay to rest. to recede.”
    Sanober Khan, A Thousand Flamingos

  • #2
    Sanober  Khan
    “even
    in the loneliest moments

    i have been there
    for myself.”
    Sanober Khan

  • #3
    Sanober  Khan
    “lean in to kiss me
    in all the places

    where the ache
    is
    the most special.”
    Sanober Khan

  • #4
    Sanober  Khan
    “how is it that
    he's always
    in my thoughts.

    even when
    i am not
    thinking.”
    Sanober Khan, A Thousand Flamingos

  • #5
    Sanober  Khan
    “Words
    are powerful
    forces of nature.

    they are destruction.
    they are nourishment.
    they are flesh.
    they are water.
    they are flowers
    and bone.

    they burn. they cleanse
    they erase. they etch.

    they can either
    leave you
    feeling
    homeless

    or brimming
    with home.”
    Sanober Khan

  • #6
    Sanober  Khan
    “you are ever
    the only one

    i want to give
    all the peaches
    in my heart to

    the only one
    by whom
    i want them bruised.”
    Sanober Khan

  • #7
    Sanober  Khan
    “When it comes
    to love
    do not ever
    settle
    for anything
    less than magical.”
    Sanober Khan

  • #9
    John Green
    “because nerds like us are allowed to be unironically enthusiastic about stuff. Nerds are allowed to love stuff, like jump-up-and-down-in-the-chair-can’t-control-yourself love it. Hank, when people call people nerds, mostly what they’re saying is ‘you like stuff.’ Which is just not a good insult at all. Like, ‘you are too enthusiastic about the miracle of human consciousness’.”
    John Green

  • #10
    Andrew  Boyd
    “We’re all seeking that special person who is right for us. But if you’ve been through enough relationships, you begin to suspect there’s no right person, just different flavors of wrong. Why is this? Because you yourself are wrong in some way, and you seek out partners who are wrong in some complementary way. But it takes a lot of living to grow fully into your own wrongness. And it isn’t until you finally run up against your deepest demons, your unsolvable problems—the ones that make you truly who you are—that we’re ready to find a lifelong mate. Only then do you finally know what you’re looking for. You’re looking for the wrong person. But not just any wrong person: it's got to be the right wrong person—someone you lovingly gaze upon and think, “This is the problem I want to have.”

    I will find that special person who is wrong for me in just the right way.”
    Andrew Boyd, Daily Afflictions: The Agony of Being Connected to Everything in the Universe

  • #11
    Sharon Salzberg
    “You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”
    Sharon Salzberg

  • #12
    David Levithan
    “livid, adj.

    Fuck You for cheating on me. Fuck you for reducing it to the word cheating. As if this were a card game, and you sneaked a look at my hand. Who came up with the term cheating, anyway? A cheater, I imagine. Someone who thought liar was too harsh. Someone who thought devastator was too emotional. The same person who thought, oops, he’d gotten caught with his hand in the cookie jar. Fuck you. This isn’t about slipping yourself an extra twenty dollars of Monopoly money. These are our lives. You went and broke our lives. You are so much worse than a cheater. You killed something. And you killed it when its back was turned.”
    David Levithan, The Lover's Dictionary

  • #13
    Neil Gaiman
    “I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes.

    Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're Doing Something.

    So that's my wish for you, and all of us, and my wish for myself. Make New Mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody's ever made before. Don't freeze, don't stop, don't worry that it isn't good enough, or it isn't perfect, whatever it is: art, or love, or work or family or life.

    Whatever it is you're scared of doing, Do it.

    Make your mistakes, next year and forever.”
    Neil Gaiman

  • #14
    Jim Morrison
    “A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself-and especially to feel, or not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at any moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is.”
    Jim Morrison

  • #15
    Gerard Way
    “Sometimes you have to kind of die inside in order to rise from your own ashes and believe in yourself and love yourself to become a new person.”
    gerard way

  • #16
    Derek Walcott
    Love After Love

    The time will come
    when, with elation
    you will greet yourself arriving
    at your own door, in your own mirror
    and each will smile at the other's welcome,

    and say, sit here. Eat.
    You will love again the stranger who was your self.
    Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart
    to itself, to the stranger who has loved you

    all your life, whom you ignored
    for another, who knows you by heart.
    Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,

    the photographs, the desperate notes,
    peel your own image from the mirror.
    Sit. Feast on your life.”
    Derek Walcott, Collected Poems, 1948-1984

  • #17
    Terence McKenna
    “Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up. This is the trick. This is what all these teachers and philosophers who really counted, who really touched the alchemical gold, this is what they understood. This is the shamanic dance in the waterfall. This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering it's a feather bed.”
    Terence McKenna

  • #18
    C. JoyBell C.
    “I have learned, that the person I have to ask for forgiveness from the most is: myself. You must love yourself. You have to forgive yourself, everyday, whenever you remember a shortcoming, a flaw, you have to tell yourself "That's just fine". You have to forgive yourself so much, until you don't even see those things anymore. Because that's what love is like.”
    C. JoyBell C.

  • #19
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Do not confuse "duty" with what other people expect of you; they are utterly different. Duty is a debt you owe to yourself to fulfill obligations you have assumed voluntarily. Paying that debt can entail anything from years of patient work to instant willingness to die. Difficult it may be, but the reward is self-respect.
    But there is no reward at all for doing what other people expect of you, and to do so is not merely difficult, but impossible. It is easier to deal with a footpad than it is with the leech who wants "just a few minutes of your time, please—this won't take long." Time is your total capital, and the minutes of your life are painfully few. If you allow yourself to fall into the vice of agreeing to such requests, they quickly snowball to the point where these parasites will use up 100 percent of your time—and squawk for more!
    So learn to say No—and to be rude about it when necessary. Otherwise you will not have time to carry out your duty, or to do your own work, and certainly no time for love and happiness. The termites will nibble away your life and leave none of it for you.
    (This rule does not mean that you must not do a favor for a friend, or even a stranger. But let the choice be yours. Don't do it because it is "expected" of you.)”
    Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love

  • #20
    Alexandra Bracken
    “Life isn’t fair." I said. "It’s taken me a while to get that. It’s always going to disappoint you in some way or another. You’ll make plans, and it’ll push you in another direction. You will love people, and they’ll be taken away no matter how hard you fight to keep them. You’ll try for something and won’t get it. You don’t have to find meaning in it; you don’t have to try to change things. You just have to accept the things that are out of your hands and try to take care of yourself. That’s your job.”
    Alexandra Bracken, Never Fade

  • #21
    Thomas Merton
    “Instead of hating the people you think are war-makers, hate the appetites and disorder in your own soul, which are the causes of war. If you love peace, then hate injustice, hate tyranny, hate greed - but hate these things in yourself, not in another.”
    Thomas Merton, New Seeds of Contemplation

  • #22
    D.H. Lawrence
    “Nobody knows you.
    You don't know yourself.
    And I, who am half in love with you,
    What am I in love with?
    My own imaginings?”
    D.H. Lawrence, The Complete Poems of D.H. Lawrence
    tags: love

  • #24
    Charles Bukowski
    “If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.”
    Charles Bukowski

  • #25
    Eartha Kitt
    “It’s all about falling in love with yourself and sharing that love with someone who appreciates you, rather than looking for love to compensate for a self love deficit.”
    Eartha Kitt

  • #26
    Jason Evert
    “Don't worry about finding your soul mate. Find yourself.”
    Jason Evert

  • #27
    Mandy Hale
    “Single |sin•gle| (adjective) - Too fabulous to settle.”
    Mandy Hale, The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence

  • #28
    Victoria Moran
    “Did your mom ever tell you, ‘If you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything’? She was right–and talking nicely also applies when you’re talking to yourself, even inside your head. (339)”
    Victoria Moran, Younger by the Day: 365 Ways to Rejuvenate Your Body and Revitalize Your Spirit

  • #29
    Thich Nhat Hanh
    “A true partner or friend is one who encourages you to look deep inside yourself for the beauty and love you’ve been seeking.”
    Thích Nhất Hạnh, How to Love



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