iam J.R. Lewis™

You can’t betray yourself too often, or you become somebody else.

The strongest actions for a woman is to love herself, be herself, and shine amongst those who never believed she could.

We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.

Don’t be afraid of your fears. They’re not there to scare you. They’re there to let you know that something is worth it.

How many young women have I watched weep their days away over disinterested men? To all of them, I want to say, Look up. Get a life, because he has.

Make your pain mine.

I needed love and you didn’t offer any.

When I first saw you I could only think of how your eyes resembled crashing tsunamis. And I was right. You are, if anything, a natural disaster.

I tried to hide the pain, behind the quotes I found behind the words I wrote behind the books I read and behind all those music I listened, but it keeps coming back to find solace, in my aching soul.

She was like a star. Small but brilliant. 
Content to live out her days as she was designed to: shining in her appointed position in the night sky. 
But oh, if someone would just notice her beauty! To that single person, she would shimmer all the more. but as they say, beautiful things don’t ask for attention.

She wasn’t a rose; picked clean and prim. She wasn’t an object; bright and shinny. She was a normal girl, the girl I could stay up until 3am talking and laughing about nothing with. The hometown girl who understood me inside and out. The one with the kind of beauty you longed to find again. And I missed her, and I loved her, and I still do.

At first, I was dying to know you. And then I was dying to go out with you. And then I was dying to get intimate with you. And then I was dying to start a family with you. And now I am dying by your side realizing that even though I forgot to live—I remembered to love.

The real reason I find it so hard to look into your eyes is because I’m afraid words will spill out in the form of tears once they lock with yours.

Sometimes when our very own eyes fail to see the magic stirring inside us, we find two different pairs out in the world looking at it. One, which see that magic as nothing but a puff of smoke and the other, who recognize that puff as a brewing miracle.

You’ve got to find yourself first. Everything else’ll follow.

No matter how you feel. Get up, dress up, show up and never give up.

When you care about someone, you just do, and nothing changes that.