it's so sad that when you see someone as they really are it ruins them
life is not stories. life is life which is sad, cause there’s so little time and what are we doing with it
love is five minutes of pleasure for a lifetime of pain
do you ever get that feeling that like to know you more is to love you less
why are we so afraid of the silence? what comfort do we find in the noise?
just pretend you are happy, and eventually you’ll forget you’re pretending
everybody loves you but nobody likes you. and that is the loneliest feeling in the world
even after i die, i want to be at the front of her mind for a while. ten years, at least- eren yeager, the most selfish guy to walk this earth
when you do bad things, you have something people can point to when they eventually do. “it's not you", you tell yourself "it's that bad thing you did”
be at peace that you won’t ever fully be at peace (i wrote this one)
you know sometimes I feel like I was born with a leak. and any goodness that was left inside me just slowly spilled out of me and now it’s all gone
it’s so cruel to let people love you. all you’re doing is promising one day you’ll break their hearts
a rose that’s forever in bloom - barbie
outward reform begins with inward renewal
stay present. stay pleasant. stay proud - barbie
everyone shall sit under their own vine and fig tree, and no one shall make them afraid - micah 4:4
our lives are always moving in the direction of our strongest thoughts. what we think shapes who we are
like the rainbow after the rain, joy will reveal itself after sorrow
when you step into the future, you’re about to meet someone who could love you
remove the lies, replace with truth
finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable- if anything is excellent or praiseworthy- think about such things. whatever you have learned or received or heard from me, or seen in me-put it into practice. and the God of peace will be with you. - philippians 4: 8-9
the perfect gift that ever lived is you
let this be the week when you finally realize how amazing you are and fall in love with every inch of yourself
even in the material world, you will find that if you look for the light, you will often find it, but if you look for the dark, that is all you will ever see - uncle iroh
many things that seem threatening in the dark, becoming welcoming when we shine light on them
when we hit our lowest point we are open to the greatest change
when you base your expectations only on what you see, you blind yourself to the possibilites of a new reality
underperforming doesn't mean you have to over perform
instinct is a lie told by a fearful body, hoping to be wrong
nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change
when things are bad, we take a bit of comfort in the thought that they could always be WORSE. and when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get BETTER
death is what gives life meaning
while it is always good to believe in oneself, a little help from others can be a great blessing
choose to leave your anxiety, and never pick it back up
if the plan doesn't work, change the plan, but never the goal
a legacy is planting seeds in a garden you’ll never get to see
one of the most stubborn, persistent phenomenon of the mind, is that when you do two things at once, you don’t do either one as well as when you do them one at a time
love yourself first and everything else falls into line. you really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world
life is just like a dark tunnel. You can’t always see the light at the end of the tunnel, but if you just keep moving, you will come to a better place
after winter comes the summer. after night comes the dawn. and after every storm, there come clear, open skies
the true mind can wether all the lies and illusions without being lost. the true heart can touch the poison of hatred without being hard
never had a pet. there’s more fish in the sea but I never had a gold fish to begin with
darkness thrives in the void, but always yields to purify right
and it’s not like giving a jerk a gun, and telling him it’s okay to kill people suddenly turns that jerk into a hero
the problem with everybody is they all wanna hear what they already believe, no one ever wants to hear the truth
if you sit day after day, summer after summer, in a chair under the same tree, you will notice how the light falls under and through the boughs to strike always in the same pattern. you notice how it falls that way year after year, changing only with the seasons, and you think how you might go away and suffer death or torture by fire or flood, and the light always at the same hour in that season will be creeping around the bole of that beech tree
i mourned the person i thought you were, but curse the person you truly are
we’re just two lonely people trying to hate ourselves a little less
for so it always has been - if you see the dust of a fight rising, you will know that a kindness is being repaid
until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter
if a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. and when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until it gets so ugly you can hardly bear to look at it. a person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. you can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely
only the wicked runneth when no man pusheth
there’s nothing more irresistible to a man that woman who’s in love with home
when you find yourself lost and disoriented, and underwater and you don’t know which way is up, it’s important to breathe
go where you’re celebrated, not tolerated
unconditional love is when someone hurts you, but because you care about that person so much you choose not to hurt them in return
if you don't love yourself, you'll always be chasing after people who don't love you either
the only way out is through
there are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice
can a heart still break once it’s stopped beating
can a heart still break once it’s stopped beating
speak up or your silence will be perceived as permission
the universe has a way of looking out for us if we just stop fighting it
if your right eye causes you to stumble, gouge it out and throw it away. it is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell
the way we exchange oxygen, for carbon dioxide with trees, is such a cute way for expressing our love - uche
how lucky i am having something that makes saying goodbye so hard
rejection is always redirection
i just like being in a room with you. you make rooms good
in for penny in for pound, sunk cost and all that
unconditional love is hard to compete with
the point of art is less what people put into it, and more what people get out of it
there are people who help you end up becoming the person you end up being, and you can be grateful for them even if they weren’t meant to be in your life forver
formed under pressure, desired by many. yet possessed only by a fortunate few, there is nothing on earth quite so envied as a diamond
distance is no match for memory
“hope” is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops - at all
true love is when the rest of the world goes quiet. it’s not the eyes that meet, but souls that dance
love is not something that is ever owed
i am in love with words.