i am learning that most of my fear of others is my own internal judgment of myself.
//brianna pastor
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"Sometimes," said Julia, "I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all."
โ Evelyn Waugh, from Brideshead Revisited (1945)
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Most people never heal, because they stay in their heads, replaying corrupted scenarios. Let it go...
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"If you have the ability to love, love yourself first."
โ Charles Bukowski
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"I think the saddest people always try their hardest to make people happy because they know what it's like to feel absolutely worthless and they don't want anyone else to feel like that."
- Robin Williams
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It's crazy how trauma makes you push people away when all you want is love.
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"She was too quiet, or she was too loud. She took things too seriously, or not seriously at all. She was too sensitive, or too cold-hearted. She hated with every fiber of her being, or loved with every piece of her heart. There was no in-between for her. It was either all or nothing. She wanted everything but settled for nothing."
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"Don't you dare shrink yourself for someone else's comfort . Do not become small for people who refuse to grow."
m.v., Advice to my future daughter,
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Sometimes, being hurt too many times, doesn't make you stronger, it destroy who you were, who you wanted to be and makes who you are today.
Rafael Prado
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I wish that I could take all your insecurities and all the reasons you don't think you are beautiful and press them between the pages of a book, like flowers, so they will become art to you instead of such darkness.
Courtney Peppernell, The Way Back Home.
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โ Amanda Helm, from โThe Day I Learned That I was Broken.โ
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& how many times have you loved me without my asking?
How often have i loved a thing because you loved it? including Me
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โBut grief compels me, maybe even more than sleep. I am waiting for something to last. I know nothing will.โ
โ Sanna Wani, โWho is the Sun, Asking for Sleep?โ, My Grief, the Sun
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