“Nobody will protect you from your suffering. You can't cry it away or eat it away or starve it away or walk it away or punch it away or even therapy it away. It's just there, and you have to survive it. You have to endure it. You have to live through it and love it and move on and be better for it a…”— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.com
“Every time it rains it stops raining. Every time you hurt, you heal. After darkness, there is always light and you get reminded of this every morning but you still choose to believe that the night will last forever. Nothing lasts forever. Not the good or the bad.”— Iain Thomas, amazon.ca
“Hearts don’t break, y’all, they bruise and get better. We were never tragedies. We were emergencies. You call 9 – 1 – 1. Tell them I’m having a fantastic time.”— Buddy Wakefield, buddywakefield.com
“When your heart is broken, you plant seeds in the cracks and you pray for rain.”— Andrea Gibson, youtube.com
“I no longer need you to fuck me as hard as I hate myself. Make love to me like you know I am better than the worst thing I ever did. Go slow. I’m new to this but I have seen nearly every city from a rooftop without jumping. I have realized that the moon did not have to be full for us to love it. We…”— Buddy Wakefield, buddywakefield.com
“Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open.”— Natalie Goldberg, amazon.com
“I have learned that when sadness comes to visit me, all I can do is say “I see you.” I spend some time with it, get up, and say goodbye. I don’t push it away, I own it. And because I own it, I let it go.”— Carolina Zacaria, facebook.com
“Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature — the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter.”— Rachel Carson, amazon.com
“Take a walk in the woods (alone), And there you will find all of the questions That remain unanswered in your mind.”— Kaitlyn Dunagan, thoughtcatalog.com
“You are endless days of summer. You are infinities. And in some other life, I choose to be all those things alongside you.”— Heidi Priebe, thoughtcatalog.com
“If in life we can learn to identify the internal voices of our wounding that get provoked in relationships and to sabotage them, we can reclaim our true selves and behave more maturely in our relationships. Only then we will stand a chance at successful relationships and the gift of intimacy.”— Pia Mellody, Lawrence S. Freundlich, amazon.com
“Over, I'm so over you The way that you look in a three-piece suit Over, I'm so over you The way that you held me when nobody else would”— Ingrid Michaelson, youtube.com
“I am trying to get a jingle into your head. A furtive hammering hammering of words that should sound cheerful. They don't always come out cheerful. Sometimes your sadness is contagious and I feel I can't make a joke. If I don't find a gag in the swarm of daily misery, I start sinking into the mud of…”— Hector Abad, pushkinpress.com