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“She’s never where she is. She’s only inside her head.”

— Janet Fitch, White Oleander

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— January 25, 1922 | Franz Kafka diaries

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actually i love growing older and learning how i work as a person like realizing what kinds of fabrics feel best on my skin or what brand of yogurt i like best or how I want to be touched. watching myself change, enjoying brussel sprouts when I used to hate them as a child, understanding why I got angry in that one conversation 10 years ago… there are so many mysteries inside me that i have yet to unravel and there will always be more and sometimes i think maybe its all worth it

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there is no ‘right time’ there is just time and what you choose to do with it 

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Susan Sontag, from “Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963″

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“I still search for you in the glow of those around me.”

— Noor Shirazie

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“You are a wonderful manifestation. The whole universe has come together to make your existence possible. There is nothing that is not you.”

— Thích Nhất Hạnh

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“Is there a way to rescue the girl who once believed in love? I cannot bear to have her think softness is an ancient legend, as she builds castle walls around her loneliness.”

— Noor Shirazie

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“We were a recipe for disaster, but curiosity begged me to taste our downfall. I burnt my tongue on the very first bite.”

— Noor Shirazie

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“Work on you, for you.”

— (via deeplifequotes)

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“Sometimes you put up walls – not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.”

— Socrates

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“You’re worse than a hopeless romantic. You’re a hopeful one.”

California Suite (1978)

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Everyone you meet always asks if you have a career, are married or own a house; as if life was some kind of grocery list. But nobody ever asks if you are happy.

— Heath Ledger

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هناك أشخاص عندما تلتقي بهم .. تشعر كأنك التقيت بنفسك

There are people when you meet them you feel like you have met yourself.

- Ghada Al-Samman

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“please try your best to stay positive, to stay grateful, to never lose hope and to never stop fighting for what you believe in”

— Unknown

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“You don’t know how little you matter until you’re all alone.”

— Frank Ocean (via thoughtkick)

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“When you’re scared but you still do it anyway, that’s brave.”

— Neil Gaiman