“It was an addiction that I couldn’t cut clean from. It was an obsession that I couldn’t quite quit.”Tagged: ThoughtCatalog
“This is my acceptance that the best things are never straightforward and that I want you to take whatever crooked, twisted path you need to take if it will lead you towards your dreams.”Tagged: Letting Go, Moving On
“If only I can make this pain pretty, we tell ourselves, then it mattered.”Tagged: Pain, Breaking Up, Memories, Nostalgia
“You are endless days of summer. You are infinities. And in some other life, I choose to be all those things alongside you.”Tagged: Love, Almosts, Parellel Universes, Moving On, Healing
“Let’s talk about how seasons change; how ice thaws and autumn leaves fall and even flowers only blossom for one season each year but their brevity doesn’t make their presence any less beautiful or real.”Tagged: Nature, Change Of Seasons, Change, Beauty of Nature, Beauty Of Change
“Because the truth is, if you want that big, passionate, all-consuming love, you’re going to have to go after it. You’re going to have to fight for it. You’re going to have to be willing to put yourself out there in a way that could potentially humiliate or break you. And at the end of the day, it…”Tagged: Finding Love, Going All In, Big Love, real love, Truth About Love
“We’ve gotten so wrapped up in protecting our egos that we’ve forgotten what it means to love freely. Or even how to let ourselves feel. Because the truth is, the kind of love that all of us are aching for isn’t the kind that plays by the rules.”Tagged: Love, Pursuing Love, Egos, real love, Chasing Love
“Our hearts will break – time and time and time again – over the course of our feeble existences. But they never break irreparably. They never shatter in ways we can’t fix. Our hearts are stronger than all of the things that ever break them, if we give them permission to be.”Tagged: Heartbreak
“Sometimes you’re going to have to let one person go a thousand different times, a thousand different ways, and there’s nothing pathetic or abnormal about that. You are human.”Tagged: Letting Go, On Letting Go, When Someone Leaves, Losing The One You Love, Learning To Let Go
“It is not human nature to let go. We are, at our core, territorial creatures. We fight to hold onto what we love. Giving up isn’t in any way instinctual.”Tagged: Letting Go, On Letting Go, When Someone Leaves, Losing The One You Love, Learning To Let Go
“Some people can love you more in a year than others could love you in fifty. Some people can teach you more within a single day than others could teach you over the entire course of a lifetime.”Tagged: Love, Relationships, True Love, Forever Love
“There’s something about the frantic, desperate friendships we form when we’re young that can simply never be reconstructed.”Tagged: Friendship, Love, Friends
“Forgiveness doesn’t mean you have to make amends with who hurt you. It doesn’t mean befriending them, sympathizing with them or validating what they have done to you. It just means accepting that they’ve left a mark on you. And that for better or for worse, that mark is now your burden to bear. It…”Tagged: forgiveness
“Forgiveness means knowing that the past is over, the dust has settled and the destruction left in its wake can never be reconstructed to resemble what it was. It’s accepting that there’s no magic solution to the damage that’s been caused. It’s the realization that as unfair as the hurricane was, you…”Tagged: forgiveness
“The truth about anger is that it’s nothing more than the refusal to heal, because you’re scared to. Because you’re afraid of who you’ll be once your wounds close up and you have to go on living in your new, unfamiliar skin.”Tagged: forgiveness, Anger, Pain
“I want to do everything on earth with you. I want to float down rivers, traverse deserts, scale mountains and submerge ourselves into the sea. I want to take on a lifetime worth of challenges alongside you but most of all, I want to come home to you.”Tagged: Quality Time, Love, travel, Adventure
“You’re the person I want to dive headfirst into life with. When I go out on the weekends, it is you I want shutting down the club with me. When I plan an adventure it is you I want holding the map. When I speculate about the future, I want to see you in every outlandish fantasy I plan for myself.”Tagged: Quality Time, Love, Adventure, Life
“The truth about moving on is that it just doesn’t look the same to all of us. For some people, it means falling madly in love with someone else. For others it means building an independent life in which their happiness is only their own. There are a thousand different ways to push our lives forwards…”Tagged: Moving On, Letting Go
“If there’s anything I wish we could talk more about it’s the in-between stages of letting someone go. Because nobody lets go in an instant. You let go once. And then you let go again. And then again and again and again. You let someone go at the grocery store when their favorite type of soup is on…”Tagged: Moving On, Letting Go