Courage

“There’s really no shortcut to forgetting someone. You just have to endure missing them everyday until you don’t anymore.”

“Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.”

“If you ignore your feelings they will get your attention in other ways.”

“Highly sensitive people are too often perceived as weaklings or damaged goods. To feel intensely is not a symptom of weakness, it is the trademark of the truly alive and compassionate. It is not the empath who is broken, it is society that has become dysfunctional and emotionally disabled. There is no shame in expressing your authentic feelings. Those who are at times described as being a ‘hot mess’ or having 'too many issues’ are the very fabric of what keeps the dream alive for a more caring, humane world. Never be ashamed to let your tears shine a light in this world.”

“Why wasn’t friendship as good as a relationship? Why wasn’t it even better? It was two people who remained together, day after day, bound not by sex or physical attraction or money or children or property, but only by the shared agreement to keep going, the mutual dedication to a union that could never be codified.”

“You don’t need someone to complete you. You only need someone who accept you completely.”

“If people refuse to look at you in a new light and they can only see you for what you were, only see you for the mistakes you’ve made, if they don’t realize that you are not your mistakes, then they have to go.”

“I think one of my favorite feelings is laughing with someone and realizing half way through how much you enjoy their existence.”

“Learn to trust the journey even when you do not understand it.”

“Whatever you do, never run back to what broke you. Live in the present and make it beautiful.”

“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”

“Never allow loneliness to drive you into the arms of someone you know you don’t belong with.”

“For as long as I could remember, I had been apologizing for existing, for trying to be who I was, to live the life I was meant to lead.”

“If you were happy before you knew someone, you can be happy after they’re gone.”