“Before I knew the phrase ‘irl’ I knew that irl was never going to be the place I felt most at home, which is a lonely thing to know from a young age, maybe.”Tagged: Loneliness, Lonely, IRL, Existence, Quote of the Moment
“A few things you should do for your partner every day: hug them, caress them, kiss them, hold their hand.”Tagged: hugs, Kisses, Hand Holding, H4D-11
“Happiness comes as the result of conflict, resolution, and growth — as the result of having to work at something.”Tagged: Happiness, Conflict, Growth, H4D-20, Motivational
“Relax. You will become an adult. You will figure out your career. You will find someone who loves you. You have a whole lifetime; time takes time. The only way to fail at life is to abstain.”Tagged: Adulthood
“No, I don’t think being overweight is healthy. Yes, I believe it is something to work on. But how many dispositions of malice, how many fundamentally terrible personality traits do we not treat in this same way? Many fat people become fat because they hate themselves and are paralyzed in this space.…”Tagged: Why Aren't We Perfect?, Cast the First Stone, The Plank In Your Own Eye, Quote of the Moment
“What if you just accepted, for this moment, that you do not have to be perfect?”Tagged: Rest, Find Peace, It's Okay
“We teach kids the golden rule because we anticipate needing to remind them to be selfless, but we don’t think about what to do when the hard part of loving your neighbor as yourself is that you have to love yourself, too.”Tagged: Loving Yourself, Treat Yourself Well, Take Care Of Yourself First
“I am not asking for much. I just want an entire galaxy to be created so that it can exist between us.”Tagged: Love, Create A Universe for Us, Examples of Understatement
“Freedom is just letting go of all the things I want everyone to notice about me.”Tagged: Freedom, Society, Norms, What People Think About You
“All night I was rolling over and smelling you. All night I was rolling over and thinking about how you make me forget which way all my limbs are supposed to go.”Tagged: Poetry From Loss, i tried, Forever Fighting
“Freedom is just letting go of all the things I want everyone to notice about me.”Tagged: Freedom of Expression, Letting Go, Be yourself
“You are still a mark in the distance I can use to find my way. When your ghost comes around he is still comforting, familiar, fleeting. When your memory finds me, you still feel like home.”Tagged: Lost Love, your ghost, Memories
“Everything that was good about us was good because I made it good.”Tagged: Good Relationships, Effort & Time, Not Good Enough
“A memory might not leave you alone the way you want it to, but it can’t hurt you. It’s mortal the way we are, it dies when you neglect it.”Tagged: Memories, memories can't hurt you, Forget the past
“I’ve realized that the right place doesn’t mean anything without the right people.”Tagged: Home Is A Feeling, Right People, wrong place
“Love, I am learning, is too big to just be about what I get out of it.”Tagged: bigger than me, What Is Love, Love (The Concept)
“All night I was rolling over and smelling you. All night I was rolling over and thinking about how you make me forget which way all my limbs are supposed to go.”Tagged: Up All Night, Awake, I Miss You
“I know I’m not supposed to say this but the smell of tobacco on you does things to me I would not want my mom — or the Surgeon General to know.”Tagged: In love, smoking, Smell Of Love
“Someone told me Betty White was 96 the other day and I got extremely stressed out. Who would want to live to be 96? I can’t imagine 6 more decades of this shit.”Tagged: Betty White, humor, Existential dread
“I’m not depressed. I like being alive. Pretty much every day I feel happiness and joy and contentment over something. But there’s so much work for me to do just to be a person and it’s exhausting. Im exhausted.”Tagged: depressed, Exhausted, H4D-48