Same Difference

“Staying quiet doesn’t mean I have nothing to say, it means I don’t think you’re ready to hear my thoughts.”

“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”

“No capacity to hate. It’s either love or I don’t care.”

“If a girl starts out all casual with a guy and she doesn’t tell him that she wants a relationship, it will never become a relationship. If you give the guy the impression that casual is okay with you, that’s all he’ll ever want. Be straight with him from the start. If he gets scared and runs away, he wasn’t right for you.”

“When you talk you are only repeating what you already know. But when you listen you may learn something new.”

“Opinion is really the lowest form of human knowledge. It requires no accountability, no understanding. The highest form of knowledge is empathy, for it requires us to suspend our egos and live in another’s world. It requires profound purpose larger than the self kind of understanding.”

“Say it before you run out of time. Say it before it’s too late. Say what you’re feeling. Waiting is a mistake.”

“Am I lonely because no one cares, or am I lonely because I’m not strong enough to let anyone get close enough to care?”

“I just want someone to love me hardest when I least deserve it.”

“Stay single until someone actually complements your life in a way that makes it better not to be single. If not, it’s not worth it.”

“and at some point I thought to myself: ‘no person deserves this,’ and I realized that includes even me.”

أعوذ بالله من أن أكون كَنُوداً، أعُد البلايا و أنسى النعَم

“Be strong enough to stand alone, smart enough to know when you need help, and brave enough to ask for it.”

“If someone treats you badly recognize that there is something wrong with them, not you. Normal people do not go around destroying other people.”

“Be nice to yourself. It’s hard to be happy when someone is being mean to you all the time.”