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It is difficult to try to understand someone else’s pain when you haven’t felt it. But love isn’t understanding. Love is what happens in spite of understanding.

Jordan Randall, “The World I Want” (via twloha)

Though We may appear in a weary dust jacket, it is important to never be deceived, about our stories.

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Life is a book. Some chapters are sad, some are happy and some are exciting, but if you never turn the page you will never know what the next chapter has in store for you.

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“A book is a device to ignite the imagination.”

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We can continue, if we’re gentle with ourselves.

love is giving yourself grace, seeing value in yourself through forgiveness and hope is believing in the process that its not contingent on perfection or resolution, but to keep believing (never give up, chase the light)

love without an agenda, and hope without expectation

love and hope are ever changing.

you can thrive, and do more then just exist

#bearcat

I am excited for this, beyond words. I will appreciate the truths and the fabrications of this telling, they are all important. I will appreciate Renee for her honest opinion on this film. I will appreciate Bearcat for her musical contribution.

What do you hope people will take away from the movie? I hope they take away a desire to be honest, to love themselves and others enough to meet them where they are. I hope more people will realize they aren’t alone, that they can ask for help, and that they will be willing to reach out. I fought hard for an ending that was honest, that didn’t offer a false sense of hope through a perfect “happily ever after” but instead suggested that hope exists for us in each messy, imperfect, human moment of our lives. I think that’s a beautiful truth for people to take away from this film – that hope isn’t lost if we still struggle – and that our humanity doesn’t make us unlovable.

Renee Yohe on TWLOHA Movie.

People learn their roles and have their scripts. They wear their masks and play their parts. And the show goes on. Until one day, someone decides to stop acting. They remove their mask, they go off-script, and they change what has always been done. The problem is the people still on the stage, those who are still content living in their denial; they don’t like it much when one of their costars decides to stop acting. It changes things. It brings to light what we are all trying to hide from: reality. But it is the actor, the one who has decided to stop acting, who will win the award. Because she will stop playing the part that was given to her, and she will start living and being the person she decides to be, brokenness and all.

http://twloha.com/blog/removing-the-masks-we-wear/

#thankyourenee

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We are more alike in our brokenness and beauty than we are in our pretending and perfection.

Carissa Magras, “Removing The Masks We Wear” (via twloha)

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I become irritable at the drop of a hat. I do everything in my power to keep it to myself, but it’s exhausting being hyperaware in every social situation; it’s exhausting ruminating over everything I’ve said or done or will say or will do. I may snap at you. Please know that it isn’t your fault.“

Erin Marshall, “For Those Who Have Stayed” (via twloha)