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“Nobody ever really knows how much anyone else is hurting. You could be standing next to somebody who is completely broken and you wouldn’t even know it. That’s why you should always try to be kind.”

“Take all the time you need to heal emotionally. Moving on doesn’t take a day. It takes a lot of little steps to be able to break free of your broken self.”

“She is a beautiful piece of broken pottery, put back together by her own hands. And a critical world judges her cracks while missing the beauty of how she made herself whole again.”

“So often we try to make other people feel better by minimizing their pain, by telling them that it will get better (which it will) or that there are worse things in the world (which there are). But that’s not what I actually needed. What I actually needed was for someone to tell me that it hurt because it mattered. I have found this very useful to think about over the years, and I find that it is a lot easier and more bearable to be sad when you aren’t constantly berating yourself for being sad.”

“Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny.”

“And I want to be happy. Like, seventy to eighty percent of the time. I want to be actively, thoughtfully happy.”

“Thank you for misunderstanding me, rejecting me and not seeing me and teaching me to always see myself.”

“Home isn’t where you’re from, it’s where you find light when all grows dark.”

“We all need a friend who’ll sit with us in silence when words won’t work.”