You can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own.

Chaim Potok (via perfeqt)

When someone could show you heaven, that person could show you hell too.

Unknown

I need to stop fantasizing about running away to some other life and start figuring out the one I have.

Holly Black

This isn’t a story about the strong and the weak, it never has been. This is a story about all who are weak that choose to become strong.

SWinder (via perfectquote)

Walking away had been easy. Not looking back was harder.

V.E. Schwab, A Gathering of Shadows

I hope you fall in love with someone who never lets you fall asleep thinking you're unwanted.

Unknown

There are all kinds of love in the world, but never the same love twice.

F. Scott Fitzgerald (via meineluft)

Those who do not know how to see the precious things in life will never be happy.

Alex Flinn

You can't help what you feel, but you can help how you behave

Margaret Atwood

Love should bring joy, it should grant a person peace, but here and now, it was bringing only pain.

Nicholas Sparks, Dear John

It’s because of you when I’m in bed in the morning that I can wind my spring and tell myself I have to live another good day.

Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

No matter what you look like or think you look like you’re special and loved and perfect just the way you are.

Unknown

Apologizing does not always mean you’re wrong and the other person is right. It just means you value your relationship more than your ego.

Mark Matthews

Be willing to walk alone. Many who start with you won’t finish.

Unknown

Peace does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise, trouble or hard work. It means to be in the midst of those things and still be calm in your heart.

Unknown (via meineluft)

You know I don’t agree with what you did. But I understand why you did it.

Hanya Yanagihara

Fall in love with someone who's comfortable with your silence. Find someone who doesn't need your words to know it's time to kiss you.

Clairabelle Ann

The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.

Mother Teresa (via meineluft)

He was my crack. I could never get enough, and when I had him I was already thinking about when I could have him next.

Tarryn Fisher, The Opportunist

Note to self: You’ve gotta do this for you. This is for you. This isn’t about anybody. Live for you. Honour you. Never lose sight of that.

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