“Unless you know who you are, you will always be vulnerable to what people say.”— Phil McGraw
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“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.”— C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
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“You see the thing is, I never let people see my overwhelming insecurities that suffocate me. I don’t let people see how much missed opportunities and forgotten friendships really faze me. It is a lot easier to pretend that I don’t feel conveniently replaceable. It is simpler to act unfazed about it instead of admitting that I feel like the forgotten shadow of a ghost that was once an important part of someone’s life. To be honest, I would rather let people think that I am a cold-hearted bitch than let them bear witness to just how irrelevant I feel on the best of days. I think I will always choose to hide behind a veil than show my true feelings.”— vulnerability isn’t fun; and it sure isn’t easy // a.b
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Aren’t we all waiting to be read by someone, praying that they’ll tell us that we make sense?
- Rudy Francisco
“Find gratitude within the everyday. Find gratitude within the things you see regularly, the things that never let you down and the things that remain consistent. The one sure way to happiness in your life is to remind yourself frequently what you are lucky enough to feel grateful for. There is so much good in the everyday.”—
gratitude by Amy Kennedy
12/06/18
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“I’ve got a bad case of the 3:00 am guilts—you know, when you lie in bed awake and replay all those things you didn’t do right? Because, as we all know, nothing solves insomnia like a nice warm glass of regret, depression and self-loathing.”— D.D. Barant, Dying Bites (via simply-quotes)
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“Go for it, while you can. I know you have it in you. And I can’t promise you’ll get everything you want, but I can promise nothing will change if you don’t try.”— J.M. Darhower (via moon-quotes)
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“May you have the courage to go places that scare you.”— Unknown
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I opened my mouth, almost said something. Almost. The rest of my life might have turned out differently if I had. But I didn’t.
— Khaled Hosseini
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“sometimes the waves keep coming in your direction because the phase you’re in is teaching you how to swim; above your fears and insecurities, above opinions or assumptions that don’t belong to you, above everything that suffocates you so you can finally learn how to breathe.”
— iambrillyant
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