Without struggle, there is no progress.

I wasn’t insane until someone touched my heart.

If you break someone’s heart and they still talk to you with the same excitement and respect. Believe me, they really love you.

Write about the lessons you’ve learned this year: 1. There are hard days. Sometimes you hate to get up in the morning, or cry yourself to sleep at night. But those days will pass. 2. Sometimes, you just have to accept you’re not feeling well. Cancel your plans, make some food and stay in bed. Sometimes, that’s exactly what you need. 3. However, don’t let your feelings take over. It’s okay to do nothing for a day, or two. But don’t make it a week. 4. I know I did let my feelings take over way too much. I stayed in bed, did nothing all day. Until the point that I had to get out. 5. Getting out of bed can feel good. Make your bed, eat some breakfast. Just do something. And be proud of yourself for what you’ve accomplished - even if it’s just eating breakfast. 6. Don’t be angry at yourself, that never works out. 7. Just take care. Of yourself, your mind, your body, everything. And accept the fact that sometimes things just don’t work out the way you want to. 8. Don’t shut people out. They are there to help. 9. You are the one that has to pick up the pieces after a breakdown. But you’re not alone, even if it feels like you are. 10. Sometimes I think I’ve control over my feelings, but I don’t. They come and go. I just have to accept that. Sometimes the feelings are just too much, and I have to take a step back. Start again. There’s always a second chance.

Stop letting people who do so little for you control so much of your mind and emotions.

show me the most damaged parts of your soul, and i will show you how it still shines like gold.

It’s all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.

I don’t know how to love without using my whole heart. I don’t know what its like to love someone ‘half way’. I practice giving love in the same way I’d like to receive it.

If you find yourself constantly trying to prove your worth to someone, you have already forgotten your value.

You will not ‘get over’ the loss of a loved one; you will learn to live with it. You will heal and you will rebuild yourself around the loss you have suffered. You will be whole again but you will never be the same. Nor should you be the same, nor would you want to.

I legami che ci vincolano a volte sono impossibili da spiegare. Ci uniscono anche quando sembra che i legami si debbano spezzare. Certi legami sfidano le distanze e il tempo e la logica. Perché ci sono legami che sono semplicemente destinati ad esistere!

To be original, or different, is felt to be ‘dangerous.’

if I never see you again I will always carry you inside outside on my fingertips and at brain edges and in centers centers of what I am of what remains.

Sometimes we meet someone and are with them for a short time, yet somehow we write about them forever.