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“Be like the flower who even gives its fragrance to the hand that crushes it.”
Imam Ali (a.s.)
(Source: thelittlephilosopher, via berrydelightful)
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“There is nothing more beautiful than seeing a person being themselves. Imagine going through your day being unapologetically you.”
Steve Maraboli (via larmoyante)
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“I thought at the time that I couldn’t be horrified anymore, or wounded. I suppose that’s a common conceit, that you’ve already been so damaged that damage itself, in its totality, makes you safe.”
Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin (via larmoyante)
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“You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (via larmoyante)
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“She thought she was independent and strong, but she got one small taste of love and she was hungrier than anyone. She was ravenous.”
Ann Brashares, Girls In Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood (via larmoyante)
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“I hated being depressed, but it was also in depression that I learned my own acreage, the full extent of my soul.”
Andrew Solomon, The Noonday Demon (via larmoyante)
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“We need, in love, to practice only this: letting each other go. For holding on comes easily; we do not need to learn it.”
Rainer Maria Rilke, “Requiem For a Friend” (via larmoyante)
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“You tell yourself he loves you. You shouldn’t have to. You tell yourself you are the most important thing in his life. He should be telling you this himself. Now and then, now and then.”
Keay Nigel, Why You Stick With Someone Not Good Enough (via larmoyante)
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“Things are sweeter when they’re lost. I know—because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly… And when I got it it turned to dust in my hands.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned (via soft-world)
(Source: vrban, via soft-world)
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