stacks of quotes

“Sometimes we build such high walls for protection that we forget that our greatest enemy can grow from within.”

If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.

Sadly, sometimes it’s too late. That’s the thing about time: we cannot get it back.

The heart grows brutal from feeding on fantasies.

Wait for the person who pursues you. The one who will make an ordinary moment seem magical. The kind of person who brings out the best in you and makes you want to be a better person.

“As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.”

Whoever makes you feel light in the darkest part of your soul is the one you should never let go.

“In a while he reached across the table and took her hand in his. He could not have known that he was trying to comfort a building that had been struck by lightning.”

“Tell me what you think about when you can’t fall asleep at night.”

“It’s okay to love something a little too much, as long as it’s real to you.”

I’m slowly learning that even if I react, it won’t change anything, it won’t make people suddenly love and respect me, it won’t magically change their minds. Sometimes it’s better to just let things be, let people go, don’t fight for closure, don’t ask for explanations, don’t chase answers and don’t expect people to understand where you’re coming from. I’m slowly learning that life is better lived when you don’t center it on what’s happening around you and center it on what’s happening inside you instead. Work on yourself and your inner peace.

One day it just clicks… You realise what is important and what isn’t, you learn to care less about what other people think of you and care more about what you think of yourself. You realise how far you have come and you remember thinking that things were such a mess they’d never recover and then you smile. You smile because you’re truly proud of the person you have fought to become.