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“I am not well; I could have built the Pyramids with the effort it takes me to cling on to life and reason.”

— Franz Kafka, Letters To Felice

“You made flowers grow in my lungs and although they are beautiful, I can’t breathe.”

— Unknown

“You do not need another heart to make yours beat, despite popular misconception.”

— Ian S. Thomas

“The truth is that monsters are real, and ghosts are real, too. They live inside us, and sometimes they win.”

— Stephen King

“I have lost and loved and won and cried myself to the person I am today.”

— Charlotte Eriksson, Empty Roads & Broken Bottles

“Sometimes the happiest ending isn’t the one you keep longing for, but something you absolutely cannot see from where you are.”

— Shauna Niequist

“Sensitive people should be treasured. They love deeply and think deeply about life. They are loyal, honest, and true. The simple things often mean the most to them. They don’t need to change or harden. Their purity makes them who they are.”

— Kristen Butler

“We never believe we’re beautiful, no matter how many times we hear it. We never believe it until someone says it in the right way.”

— Francine Prose

“Don’t you want to be alive before you die?”

— Anthony Doerr

Velimir Khlebnikov, from Collected Poems & Selected Writings; “Everland,”

“The world didn’t know / what to do with my love. / Because it isn’t used to being loved”

— Richard Siken, Self-Portrait Against Red Wallpaper

“I would open my heart and carry it in my hand so that others may know also; for there is no deeper desire than the desire of being revealed. We all want that little light in us to be taken from under the bushel.”

— Kahlil Gibran in his letter to Mary Elizabeth Haskell dated 11 Nov 1911, Beloved Prophet: The Love Letters of Kahlil Gibran and Mary Haskell, and Her Private Journal 

“Today is a wonderful day, an avalanche of light and I would like to stand with you in this rain of sunshine, to flow together, to melt into it… in mornings like this, life roars within me.”

—

Albert Camus to Maria Casarès, Correspondance, January 13, 1950 [#128]

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Fariha Róisín, from Who Is Wellness For?: An Examination of Wellness Culture and Who It Leaves Behind

[Text ID: “I never fought back, I learned how to cry silently, I bore my sins.”]

“The things I find most beautiful about a person are almost never physical.”

— Mark Patterson

“I know what I want, I have a goal, an opinion, I have… love. Let me be myself and then I am satisfied”

— Anne Frank

“I hope that someday, somebody wants to hold you for twenty minutes straight, and that’s all they do. They don’t pull away. They don’t look at your face. They don’t try to kiss you. All they do is wrap you up in their arms, without an ounce of selfishness in it.”

— Unknown

I am jealous of those who think more deeply, who write better, who draw better, who look better, who live better, who love better than I.

-Sylvia Plath

“The past doesn’t need you anymore. Your future does.”

— Unknown

salma deera

“I’ve always loved the idea of not being what people expect me to be.”

— Dita Von Teese

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, from “Carmilla”

Alanis Morissette, Sorry to Myself/Haruki Murakami,1084

“I will not think less of myself just because you do not know how to love me.”

— Unknown

“Continue to share your heart with people even if it’s broken.”

— Amy Poehler

“A friend to all is a friend to none.”

— Aristotle

“Get yourself a best friend that will love you when u don’t know how to love yourself and one that will stick by ur side even if u make shitty decisions.”

— Unknown

“Behind every strong person lies a broken child who had to learn to stand up and take no shit.”

— lonerwolf

“It’s like when someone says, ‘How are you?’ Do you say, ‘Well, my head hurts and I’m lonely and depressed and I’m worried about everything and the world is collapsing and full of evil’? Or do you say, ‘I’m fine’?”

— Sara Shepard, The Visibles

“I crave space. It charges my batteries. It helps me breathe. Being around people can be so exhausting, because most of them love to take and barely know how to give. Except for a rare few.”

— Katie Kacvinsky