“There's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out
but I'm too tough for him,
I say, stay in there, I'm not going to let anybody see you.”
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but I'm too tough for him,
I say, stay in there, I'm not going to let anybody see you.”
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“A thousand half-loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home.”
― Words of Paradise: Selected Poems of Rumi
― Words of Paradise: Selected Poems of Rumi
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
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“Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.”
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
“Let me be, was all I wanted. Be what I am, no matter how I am.”
― Stand Still Like the Hummingbird
― Stand Still Like the Hummingbird
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