what if i told you: you don’t need to heal others to heal yourself, you can just heal yourself. you do not need to give love to others to love yourself, you can just love yourself.
“Mom likes to call them my "angels," but I worry that takes away their humanity and their nonreligious capacity for love and compassion they showed a stranger.”
― Solito
― Solito
“How do you know if you're genuinely happy or if you're just mostly all right, with sprinkles of laughter and occasional shit storms of sadness?”
― Maame
― Maame
“I’m old because I’m not dead”
― Open Throat
― Open Throat
“Everyone talks about the importance of standing out but never the benefits of fitting in.”
― Maame
― Maame
“We grow up fast. Not by force, but because we are needed.'
'I think sometimes we're needed for the wrong reasons.”
― Maame
'I think sometimes we're needed for the wrong reasons.”
― Maame
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