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“You’ll learn, as you get older, that rules are made to be broken. Be bold enough to live life on your terms, and never, ever apologize for it. Go against the grain, refuse to conform, take the road less traveled instead of the well-beaten path. Laugh in the face of adversity, and leap before you look. Dance as though EVERYBODY is watching. March to the beat of your own drummer. And stubbornly refuse to fit in.”
― The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
― The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
“Somehow, we'll find it. The balance between whom we wish to be and whom we need to be. But for now, we simply have to be satisfied with who we are.”
― The Hero of Ages
― The Hero of Ages
“Life is painful and messed up. It gets complicated at the worst of times, and sometimes you have no idea where to go or what to do. Lots of times people just let themselves get lost, dropping into a wide open, huge abyss. But that's why we have to keep trying. We have to push through all that hurts us, work past all our memories that are haunting us. Sometimes the things that hurt us are the things that make us strongest. A life without experience, in my opinion, is no life at all. And that's why I tell everyone that, even when it hurts, never stop yourself from living.”
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“If you learn to really sit with loneliness and embrace it for the gift that it is…an opportunity to get to know YOU, to learn how strong you really are, to depend on no one but YOU for your happiness…you will realize that a little loneliness goes a LONG way in creating a richer, deeper, more vibrant and colorful YOU.”
― The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
― The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
“One of the best times for figuring out who you are & what you really want out of life? Right after a break-up.”
― The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
― The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
“Sometimes when you lose your way, you find YOURSELF.”
― The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
― The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
“It's a funny thing about life, once you begin to take note of the things you are grateful for, you begin to lose sight of the things that you lack.”
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“It doesn’t matter how many times you leave, it will always hurt to come back and remember what you once had and who you once were. Then it will hurt just as much to leave again, and so it goes over and over again.
Once you’ve started to leave, you will run your whole life.”
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Once you’ve started to leave, you will run your whole life.”
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“You can run away from yourself so often, and so much, just because the broken pieces of you cut your feet too deeply if you stay around for too long. But then what if someone were to come along and pick up those pieces for you? Then you wouldn't have to run away from yourself anymore. You could stop running. If someone sees you as something worth staying with— maybe you'll stay with yourself, too.”
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“You said you knew the perfect place to run to. A place that was empty of people, and buildings, and far, far away. A place covered in blood-red earth and sleeping life. A place longing to come alive again. It's a place for disappearing, you'd said, a place for getting lost... and for getting found.
I'll take you there, you'd said.
And I could say that I agreed.”
― Stolen
I'll take you there, you'd said.
And I could say that I agreed.”
― Stolen
“If you want to find the trail, if you want to find yourself, you must explore your dreams alone. You must grow at a slow pace in a dark cocoon of loneliness so you can fly like wind, like wings, when you awaken.”
― Dangerous Angels
― Dangerous Angels
“When you're unhappy, you get to pay a lot of attention to yourself. And you get to take yourself oh so very seriously. Your truly happy people, which is to say, your people who truly like themselves, they don't think about themselves very much. Your unhappy person resents it when you try to cheer him up, because that means he has to stop dwellin' on himself and start payin' attention to the universe. Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence.”
― Jitterbug Perfume
― Jitterbug Perfume
“What's wrong with me? ... I might seem like the ideal student: homework always in early, every extra credit and extra curricular I can get my hands on, the good girl and the high achiever. But I realized something just now: it's not ambition, not entirely. It's fear. Because I don't know who I am when I'm not working, when I'm not focused on or totally consumed by a task. Who am I between the projects and the assignments, when there's nothing to do? I haven't found her yet and it scares me. Maybe that's why, for my senior capstone project this year, I decided to solve a murder.”
― A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
― A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
“It is not true that everyone is special. It is true that everyone was once special and still possesses the ability to recover it.”
― Killosophy
― Killosophy
“No, a true seeker, one who truly wished to find, could accept no doctrine. But the man who has found what he sought, such a man could approve of every doctrine, each and every one, every path, every goal; nothing separated him any longer from all those thousands of others who lived in the eternal, who breathed the Divine.”
― Siddhartha
― Siddhartha
“I will come back to you, I swear I will;
And you will know me still.
I shall be only a little taller
Than when I went.”
― The Harp-Weaver and Other Poems
And you will know me still.
I shall be only a little taller
Than when I went.”
― The Harp-Weaver and Other Poems
“So they gave me love in form of poison and tiny little pills, programming my emotions, teaching me how to feel. To act correct and talk correct and answer without knowing the question, because that, my dear, is how you get love. Yes that, dear youth, is how you'll be loved. I tried to medicate my own fucked up little mind with chemicals and adrenaline, tasting sweeter every night, shaking louder every time. Sitting wide awake in bed until the world disappears, writing poetry to concentrate on something real while waiting for the love to arrive.
I've been looking for it night after night, waiting patiently for it to show up, maybe somewhere in between the state of awake and asleep, alive and not so alive, sober and not so sober.
(I lost track of the difference somewhere in between.)”
― Empty Roads & Broken Bottles: in search for The Great Perhaps
I've been looking for it night after night, waiting patiently for it to show up, maybe somewhere in between the state of awake and asleep, alive and not so alive, sober and not so sober.
(I lost track of the difference somewhere in between.)”
― Empty Roads & Broken Bottles: in search for The Great Perhaps
“There’s something really cool about knowing that your destiny is SO big that you’re not meant to share it with anyone. At least not yet.”
― The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
― The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
“And I realized that some things just don't work that way. Life isn't a fairy tail. And the person you fall in love with doesn't always love you back. But that's ok, because at the very least it makes you stronger. And brings you to a place where you can fall in love with yourself. And that to me is more important than finding someone that only makes you complete when they are around, It's really about Finding the person that will teach you ALL the lessons you need to know ...so that you feel complete all by yourself. ”
― Write like no one is reading
― Write like no one is reading
“I don’t want to be just one thing. I want to be brave and selfless and intelligent and honest and kind.”
― Divergent
― Divergent
“While you'll feel compelled to charge forward it's often a gentle step back that will reveal to you where you and what you truly seek.”
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“You didn't just find a self out there waiting. You had to make one. You had to create who you wanted to be.”
― The Vanishing Half
― The Vanishing Half
“If we remain positive and accept what is, if we tend to pay attention to the beauty of the practice but not examine the insides, we will be less likely to give ourselves the benefit of the doubt, and we will forgo the potential beauty of our birth culture, and if we forgo the potential of our birth culture, it's harder to see the beauty within ourselves.”
― Adoption Stories
― Adoption Stories
“I don't think you're lost. You're just searching for the thing that fills you with light.”
― The Bronzed Beasts
― The Bronzed Beasts
“Don't let authorities claim you're not qualified. If your soul wants to speak truth to power, you will feel curious. Your inner self will urge and pull you forth. That's your spirit talking. That's your human will, walking.”
― Adoption Stories
― Adoption Stories
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