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"Experience provides us with generalizations about what's likely to happen next. You can always draw on your experience if it's relevant, but it's better to make decisions based on what's happening now."

"Constantly connecting the present with the past prevents us from experiencing life as it unfolds. It can also feel dull and heavy."

"Our thoughts and feelings about the past get in the way of what's happening now. Letting go of them creates space for new things to happen."

"Repetitive thoughts keep you stuck and prevent things from happening in your life. These thoughts prevent us from seeing and hearing what's going on, absorbing information and exploring new opportunities. When we let go of repetitive thoughts, we allow things to happen in new and exciting ways."

"Be present. This allows life to unfold naturally, including the things you want to happen."

"ideas and solutions come from not thinking"

"I've already made a mess."

Mood...

"It's self-sabotage. Because if you can convince yourself you already know how it ends, then you get to walk away without having to actually live your life."

🙈🙈🙈

I refuse to be the girl who gets blindsided. I'm smarter than that."

“She wants to be told she’s loved, but it has to be true. He has to mean it. It has to be more than just empty words.”
“Actions speak louder than words.”

“It shouldn’t be this hard for me to go after what I want. So why is my anxious little brain complicating things?”

“I just want to climb him like a tree.”

“He’s one of the good ones. I think.”

“I want to have fun. I want to stop overthinking it… failure will be a hell of a lot better than spending the rest of my life wishing I hadn’t been too proud and scared to try.”

“Reading is so much fun, but I’m tired of feeling like all the best part of my life have been lived inside my own head.”

“Because that’s what non-fictional men do: disappoint you.”

True

“If he wanted to, he would’ve stayed. But he didn’t.”

“I don’t know what happens next. I’ve lost the fucking plot.”

“Life is far too short to let my shot at feeling like I’m in a romance novel pass me by.”

“ if you’re not into it, you can go back to your book. My ego can’t take their head, I promise. But don’t hold out on me because you’re scared.’”

WHOA WHOAH WHOAH!!! Wow!!!

“Fiction is a healthy way to exercise the imagination.”

"Wherever he is, that will be my favorite place."

"We're happy, and even when we're not, it's so much better than it was without him."

"I didn't know regular life could feel like this, like a vacation you don't have to go home from."

"You are, you know."
"A fighter?" I say.
"My home," he says, and kisses me.
We are , I think. We're home.

"I never want to live without this."

I love them!

"I know if I got on a plane with you back to New York, I would be so fucking happy. For as long as you'd have me, I'd be happy."

"I don't regret telling you. I said I'd give anything up, risk anything for you, and I meant it." Even my own heart.
"I love you all the way, Alex."

*CRIES UNCONTROLLABLY*

"I don't want you to give anything up. I want us to just make sense, and we don't, Poppy. I can't watch it fall apart again."

OH? *cries*