"Its okay to miss people who were bullets to you."
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"Start ignoring people who threaten your joy.
Literally, ignore them.
Say nothing.
Don't invite any parts of them into your space."
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"Promise me that you will not spend so much time treading water and trying to keep your head above the waves that you forget, truly forget, how much you have always loved to swim."
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"Just because someone desires you, it doesn't mean that they value you.
Read it over.
Again.
Let those words resonate in your mind."
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"What I want is to be needed. What I need is to be indispensable to somebody. Who I need is somebody that will eat up all my free time, my ego, my attention. Somebody addicted to me. A mutual addiction."
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"You are a person who has worth and autonomy and a life, a life that is happening right now, and not 'someday.'"
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"So, do it. Decide. Is this the life you want to live? Is this the person you want to love? Is this the best you can be? Can you be stronger? Kinder? More compassionate? Decide. Breathe in. Breathe out and decide."
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"Life's too short to drink crappy coffee and cry over boys who don't care."
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"This is all you have. This is not a dry run. This is your life."
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"Sometimes you have to let people go because they are toxic to you. Let them go because they take and take and leave you empty. Let them go because in the ocean of life when all you're trying to do is stay afloat, they are the anchor thats drowning you."
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"He may still love you. He probably does. He probably doesn't know what he wants. He probably still thinks about you all the time. But that isn't what matters. What matters is what he's doing about it, and what he's doing about it is nothing. And if he's doing nothing, you most certainly shouldn't do anything. You need someone who goes out of their way to make it obvious that they want you in their life."
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"You're not the kind of girl who settles. Keep not settling."
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"When he says
he doesn't love you anymore,
roll your shoulders back
and look him in the eye
even when it feels like your ribs
are breaking inward, like spider legs.
When he digs up old aches
that he swore he forgave you for,
Smile
and ask him why he didn't leave you sooner.
Ignore the way the words feel like
sandpaper
running all the way up your throat to
your mouth.
When he blames you
for mistakes that wear his face,
do not scream.
Do not cry.
Tell him that there are boys
who would be proud to say they'd
loved you.
Tell him that in two years
you won't remember his name
and don't let him see the way you can
taste your own lie.
When he leaves
Ignore the howling in your blood
and do not get up after him.
Not even to lock the door.
Do not, do not
do not.
Smell his shirts when you box them up
to give them back.
Not one.
Swear off dating when you realize
you're chasing ghosts that wear his
smile.
It's okay to cry over him.
It's even okay to forgive him.
But do not go back to him.
If he did not know how to love you the
first time,
he won't know how to do it the next."
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"Sometimes people come into your life just to teach you how to let go."
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"Today in science class I learned that every cell in our entire body is replaced every seven years.
How lovely it is to know that one day I will have a body he will have never touched."
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"Don't you dare talk
to me in
that incessant and
mocking tone.
I am not a
plaything.
You cannot play
with me one
day and throw
me to your
dog the next.
I am a fucking
mountain lion.
I can tear
you limb
from limb before
you got the
chance to yell.
There are no
delicate
fucking flowers
in this
field."
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"Someday we will find what we are looking for.
Or maybe we won't.
Maybe we will find something much greater than that."
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"Your value doesn't decrease based on someone's inability to see your worth."
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"It's okay to be a glowstick; sometimes we need to break before we shine."
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"I fell apart many times. So? What does that say about me besides I live through wars."
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"Sometimes you have to be your own hero."
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"You only love me
when I am brittle
and breaking.
Are you afraid
of what I become
when my liveliness
reaches full capacity?
Are you nervous
that I will wake up
one day and realize
that I deserve better?
You should be terrified."
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"Stay away from people who make you feel like you are hard to love."
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"If you miss someone who does not miss you, or is no good for you, or is unattainable, take all the love you once felt for them and spread it around other places. Put your love in worthwhile people and things, turn the romance into passions for hobbies or admiration for others - enrich your own life. Focus on yourself and those that actively make you happy."
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"Growth is painful. Change is painful. But nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don't belong."
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"If you find yourself thinking, "Wait. Can't say that. He'll think I'm weird and fucked up." Ditch them and find someone who responds with something twice as weird and three times as fucked up."
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"So you plant your own garden and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers."
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"Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift."
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"You are allowed to termite toxic relationships. You are allowed to walk away from people who hurt you. You are allowed to be angry and selfish and unforgiving. You don't owe anyone an explantation for taking care of yourself."
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"You are the entire ocean. Don't let someone make you feel like a drop of salt, just because they decided they don't want to swim in you anymore."
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"How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being."
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***** None of these quotes are mine. The people who wrote are said them are much more talented than I, I am simply admiring and celebrating them. Thanks!
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