sif or something like that

“Listen to me: If we are truly meant to be, then we will find our way back to each other. It’s as simple as that.”

“The sun watches what I do. But the moon knows all my secrets.”

“forgive all the versions of yourself that operated out of fear instead of growth, the ones that viewed comfort zones as safe havens and abandoned boundaries to keep other people happy, forgive all the versions of yourself that didn’t know that love begins with how you treat you.”

I can't remember which philosopher said it, but one of them defined the nature of happiness to be being able to do what one is naturally supposed to do. A horse is happy when they get to do things that horses naturally do. A seagull is happy when they get to do things that seagulls naturally do.

“Promise me not to hide yourself when you’re in pain, it’s unfair that we laughed together but you cried alone”

“The river was running strong for midsummer; heavy rains to the west of us had kept it full. I crossed the bridge and went upstream along the wooded shore to a pleasant dressing-room I knew among the dogwood bushes, all overgrown with wild grapevines. I began to undress for a swim.”