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“I will never be good enough for everybody. But I am the best for someone who really appreciates me.”

— Unknown

the little things we do in love are so underrated. simply catching a bus just to see someone, playing with hair more often, bringing flowers, giving handwritten letters, smelling their aura, kissing forehead when they don’t love themselves. no luxury can ever compensate the beauty these things hold.

— vishakha//@penthethoughts

In desperate need of friends who read books, like poetry and want to spend their nights stargazing on the rooftop

The intimacy of reading while someone you love sits close to you, reading their own book with your head on their lap playing with your hair, twirling and twisting your hair stands, being so comfortable with each other that it feels so natural, like you are truely home with peace and tranquility......

“There are two reasons why we don’t trust people. First - we don’t know them. Second - we know them.”

— Unknown

“You may be slow to warm up, but once you do, you light up the whole room.”

— Jenna Evans Welch

“He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster.. and when you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“We hide pain in the weirdest places, broken souls and smiling faces.”

— Stars Go Dim, “You Are Loved”

“Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and they will come forth, later, in uglier ways.”

— Sigmund Freud

“That’s the thing about introverts; we wear our chaos in the inside where no one can see it.”

— Michaela Chung

“Books are easily destroyed. But words will live as long as people can remember them.”

— Tahereh Mafi

“The deeper the wound, the more private the pain.”

— Isabel Allende, Paula

“I used to think I was the strangest person in the world but then I thought there are so many people in the world, there must be someone just like me who feels bizarre and flawed in the same ways I do.”

— Frida Kahlo

“Your heart understood mine. In the depth of the fragrant night, I listened with ravished soul to your beloved voice. Your heart understood mine.”

— Louisa May Alcott

“I just want to be the answer you give when someone asks you why you’ve been so happy lately.”

— iammyss

“I don’t pretend to know what love is for everyone, but I can tell you what it is for me. Love is knowing all about someone, and still wanting to be with them more than any other person. Love is trusting them enough to tell them everything about yourself, including the things you might be ashamed of. Love is feeling comfortable and safe with someone, but still getting weak knees when they walk into a room and smile at you.”

— The O.C.

“To make the right choices in life you have to get in touch with your soul. To do this, you need to experience solitude - which most people are afraid of because in the silence you hear the truth and know the solutions.”

— Deepak Chopra

Whoever first said that poetry is dead failed to provide the autopsy. If poetry is dead, what a rowdy and glorious ghost. Poetry haunts. Poetry permeates the walls we put up. Poetry startles us awake and into our own aliveness. Poetry rustles the hairs on the backs of our necks and chases us into more compassionate rooms. Though it is difficult to change a stubborn mind, poetry can change our hearts in an instant.

Andrea Gibson and Megan Falley, from How Poetry Can Change Your Heart

“It’s hard when you miss people. But, you know, if you miss them it means you were lucky. It means you had someone special in your life, someone worth missing.”

— Nathan Scott

“A man can’t love you because you haven’t read as many books as he has? He can’t love you because you don’t speak French or because you don’t go to operas? You’re telling me we have to fall in love with people who are just like us?”

— Billie Letts

“I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.”

— Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Let someone love you the way you are - as flawed as you might be, as unattractive as you sometimes feel, and as unaccomplished as you think you are. To believe that you must hide all the parts of you that are broken, out of fear that someone else is incapable of loving what is less than perfect, is to believe that sunlight is incapable of entering a broken window and illuminating a dark room.”

— Mark Hack

“One of the gifts of being a writer is that it gives you an excuse to do things, to go places and explore. Another is that writing motivates you to look closely at life, at life as it lurches by and tramps around.”

— Anne Lamott

“A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.”

— Franz Kafka

mind fuck ~

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“Sitting silently with a friend who is hurting may be the best gift we can give.”

— Unknown

“People, I have discovered, are layers and layers of secrets. You believe you know them, that you understand them, but their motives are always hidden from you, buried in their own hearts. You will never know them.”

— Veronica Roth

Kenrei Mon-In Ukyō No Daibu, tr. by Kenneth Rexroth, from Written on the Sky; Poems from the Japanese

Susan Sontag, from As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks 1964-1980