“I could feel the tears brimming and sloshing in me like water in a glass that is unsteady and too full.”
―
―
“I can't say I know
the burdens you bear
the struggles you face
or the fights you have fought
in learning to love yourself
I do not have the answers
the solutions
or remedies
you may be searching for
but I do have something
and though it's just one thing
I will give you all that I can
and through my kindness
I hope you will start to see
that you alone have always been
and you alone will always be
just that,
enough.
for everyone.
for everything.”
―
the burdens you bear
the struggles you face
or the fights you have fought
in learning to love yourself
I do not have the answers
the solutions
or remedies
you may be searching for
but I do have something
and though it's just one thing
I will give you all that I can
and through my kindness
I hope you will start to see
that you alone have always been
and you alone will always be
just that,
enough.
for everyone.
for everything.”
―
“No one wants to occupy a black hole of sadness and despair or slip on the tight rope that separates sanity from insanity, and reside in a vortex devoid of reality. I entered the world as a freeman and desire to escape a state of existential vertigo. I yearn to discover a synthesizing spirit of my being and hold my head high, free of doubt, and devoid of fear. I wish to foment the cerebral energy to stave off premature destruction and forevermore blunt an intolerable state of anguish.”
― Dead Toad Scrolls
― Dead Toad Scrolls
“Self-preservation is to hunker down in the suffocating confines of this infinitesimally tiny existence that I define as ‘me,’ instead of letting ‘me’ run through the infinitely massive expanse of everything that is not me. And if the beast of self-preservation does not permit such freedoms, I will preserve myself to my own death.”
―
―
“Pain is the price we pay for being alive. Dead cells—our hair, our fingernails—can’t feel pain; they cannot feel anything. When we understand that, our question will change from, “Why do we have to feel pain?” to “What do we do with our pain so that it becomes meaningful and not just pointless empty suffering?”
― When Bad Things Happen to Good People
― When Bad Things Happen to Good People
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