“Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let the pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe it to be a beautiful place.”Tagged: Pain, Love, Choosing Love, Compassion, strength
“Sometimes the problem isn’t that we should treat others as we’d want to be treated, the problem is that we do, and we don’t realize that actually, we should treat others how they want to be treated.”Tagged: Relationships, Friendship, Treating People As They Want To Be Treated, Girl Who Cares Too Much
“There was a research article I read with the headline, ‘Love Is A Single Act Committed By Two Brains,’ because of the way oxytocin levels rose in a mother and a son when they hugged. I wish more poets became scientists.”Tagged: Happiness, Love, Science, Poetry, Poets
“There is no prose as inspiring as a single human being with the courage to live well.”Tagged: Happiness, Human Nature, Courage, Inspirational
“Never apologize for how you feel. No one can control how they feel. The sun doesn’t apologize for being the sun. The rain doesn’t say sorry for falling. Feelings just are.”Tagged: Apology, Feelings, Control, emotions
“Never apologize for how you feel. No one can control how they feel. The sun doesn’t apologize for being the sun. The rain doesn’t say sorry for falling. Feelings just are.”Tagged: Human Condition, Never Apologize, Feelings
“Elsewhere are two letters that were never sent, because of pride, each a declaration of love that would’ve changed lives.”Tagged: Love, Love Letters, What Could Have Been, Taking A Chance, Taking Risks
“While I can be logical about this, logic has never once mended a broken heart or fixed a sundered soul.”Tagged: Logic, Emotion, Rationality, Healing, INFP
“I know there was something before you. I just can't remember what it was.”Tagged: Love, Feelings, Feelings of Love
“So you look for patterns because that’s what humans do to try and make sense of things. In hope of some divine order. And you look in movies and songs and the things that you read for symbols, points and swirls that match your own. But the only real pattern there is, is the one you make when you…”Tagged: Patterns, humanity, Reflection, Sense
“This is my heart. You can’t just come here, and take it.”Tagged: Possession, Privacy, Ownership, heart
“Making love was never about you and me in a bed. We made love whenever we held hands.”Tagged: Love, romance, Sweet Gestures, Holding Hands
“You still value the things you’ve lost the most. Because the things you’ve lost are still perfect in your head. They never rusted. They never broke. They are made of the memories you once had, which only grow rosier and brighter, day by day. They are made of the dreams of how wonderful things could…”Tagged: Imagination, Perfection, Value, Love, Idealism
“I keep wondering, how many people do you need to be, before you can become yourself.”Tagged: Identity
“The conversation between your fingers and someone else’s skin. This is the most important discussion you can ever have.”Tagged: Conversation, Skin Deep, Love, Sensuality, Passion
“Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let the pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe it to be a beautiful place.”Tagged: Don't Give Up, Don't Be Afraid, Sweetness