

“The point for me is to create relationships based on deeper and more real notions of trust. So that love becomes defined not by sexual exclusivity, but by actual respect, concern, commitment to act with kind intentions, accountability for our actions, and a desire for mutual growth.”
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“The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created them.”
― Storycatcher: The Power of Story to Change Our Lives
― Storycatcher: The Power of Story to Change Our Lives

“Letting go doesn't mean that you don't care about someone anymore. It's just realizing that the only person you really have control over is yourself.”
― Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul: 101 Stories of Life, Love and Learning
― Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul: 101 Stories of Life, Love and Learning

“It hurts to let go. Sometimes it seems the harder you try to hold on to something or someone the more it wants to get away. You feel like some kind of criminal for having felt, for having wanted. For having wanted to be wanted. It confuses you, because you think that your feelings were wrong and it makes you feel so small because it's so hard to keep it inside when you let it out and it doesn't coma back. You're left so alone that you can't explain. Damn, there's nothing like that, is there? I've been there and you have too. You're nodding your head.”
― The Portable Henry Rollins
― The Portable Henry Rollins
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