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We're all so desperate to be understood, we forget to be understanding.

— Beau Taplin

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And if it has already happened, how to keep living even though you are broken. How to live life the best you can even though you aren’t really alive.

And then I felt sad because I realized that once people are broken in certain ways, they can't ever be fixed, and this is something nobody ever tells you when you are young and it never fails to surprise you as you grow older as you see the people in your life break one by one. You wonder when your turn is going to be, or if it's already happened.

— Douglas Coupland, Life After God

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Nobody ever really knows how much anyone else is hurting. You could be standing next to somebody who is completely broken and you wouldn't even know it. That's why you should always try to be kind.

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“I am constantly trying to communicate something incommunicable, to explain something inexplicable, to tell about something I only feel in my bones and which can only be experienced in those bones.” - Franz Kafka, Letters To Milena

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I think you lost all interest in this world. You were disappointed and discouraged, and lost interest in everything. So you abandoned your physical body. You went to a world apart and you're living a different kind of life there. In a world inside you.

Haruki Murakami, 1Q84 Source: thebrokenquotes

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“It’s easy to forget things you don’t need anymore.” - Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

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Do things for yourself. Get dressed for yourself. Eat well for yourself. Read for yourself. Take walks for yourself. Nap for yourself. Laugh and smile and cry because it's all for you.

11:25am- and isn't that amazing?

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If anything, it is waiting- waiting for better days, even better moments- that makes life worth living.

Unknown (via sunsetquotes)

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“I was drawn to all the wrong things: I liked to drink, I was lazy, I didn’t have a god, politics, ideas, ideals. I was settled into nothingness; a kind of non-being, and I accepted it. I didn’t make for an interesting person. I didn’t want to be interesting, it was too hard. What I really wanted was only a soft, hazy space to live in, and to be left alone. On the other hand, when I got drunk I screamed, went crazy, got all out of hand. One kind of behavior didn’t fit the other. I didn’t care.” - Charles Bukowski, Women

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Stop cringing — at your future, at your failure, at yourself in the mirror — and stand up and look directly at who you are. Not who you should’ve been, but who you are now. Let that person in. Let her be as mediocre and wrong and shameful and sad and miserable and brilliant and hilarious as she wants to be, because she knows exactly what you need to feel good. She has plans for you. She wants to show you what comes next. She wants to take you into the future you’re dreading and say, “See? You never would’ve imagined this.

“Ask Polly: Is Life All Downhill From Here?” by Heather Havrilesky (via misterracoon)

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We must understand that sadness is an ocean, and sometimes we drown, while other days we are forced to swim

R.M Drake

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Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.

— Jodi Picoult

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More than anything, all I have ever wanted is to be close to someone. more than anything, all I have ever wanted is to feel as if I wasn’t alone.

James Fray; A Million Little Pieces (via qvotext)

I am surrounded by people, but there is an invisible barrier between us always. I want nothing more than to find a person with which this barrier does not exist.

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Being locked up in a room isn't so bad if you've been locked up in your head for years.

w.s.w. // quarantine

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"I want to be held into the morning,

I just need one night this week

Where I don't fall asleep terrified of my own mind."

- petrified

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The saddest kind of sad is, when your tears can't even drop anymore and you feel nothing. It's like the world has just ended. You don't cry. You don't hear. You don't see. You stay. For a second the heart dies.

— The emptiness is the worst.

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What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain.

— Maya Angelou, Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now