Want It All

If you love deeply, you’re going to get hurt badly. But it’s still worth it.

…Love breaks my bones and I laugh.

You had the smile of winter Sun, until the world decided that it would be prettier with bitter tears, until the universe ripped it into shreds of nothingness. You were happy, until they decided that you should not be.

Speak your mind, even if your voice shakes.

If you have the courage to make it through a lonely night with nothing but your self destructive thoughts to keep you company, darling, you have the courage to make it through anything.

Every night her thoughts weighed heavily on her soul but every morning she would get up to fight another day. Every night she survived.

If you had not suffered as you have, there would be no depth to you as a human being, no humility, no compassion.

Tonight go to sleep as though your whole past has been dropped. Die to the past. And in the morning wake up as a new man in a new morning.

The world tells you many lies about who you are, and you simply have to be realistic enough to remind yourself of this. Every time you feel hurt, offended, or rejected, you have to dare to say to yourself: ‘These feelings, strong as they may be, are not telling me the truth about myself.

If you have been brutally broken, but still have the courage to be gentle to others, then you deserve a love deeper than the ocean itself.