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“You can accept or reject the way you are treated by other people, but until you heal the wounds of your past, you will continue to bleed. You can bandage the bleeding with food, with alcohol, with drugs, with work, with cigarettes, with sex, but eventually, it will all ooze through and stain your life. You must find the strength to open the wounds, stick your hands inside, pull out the core of the pain that is holding you in your past, the memories, and make peace with them.”

— Iyanla Vanzant (via purplebuddhaproject)

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If we were meant to stay in one place we’d have roots instead of feet, he said.

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“I like to see people reunited, maybe that’s a silly thing, but what can I say, I like to see people run to each other, I like the kissing and the crying, I like the impatience, the stories that the mouth can’t tell fast enough, the ears that aren’t big enough, the eyes that can’t take in all of the change, I like the hugging, the bringing together, the end of missing someone.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (via anditslove)

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“This work is not for nothing. The nights you keep pushing forward, even when you feel exhausted and overworked. The days you continue to show up and try, even when it’s uncomfortable and would be easy to quit. All the opportunities you have to postpone and all things you have to sacrifice in order to move toward what’s important to you. It has a purpose. Some things take time to build. And you’re building. You’re building and planting the seeds, and you’re growing. Even when you feel stuck. Even when the progression feels drawn out. You’re getting there, slowly, each and every day. It’s heavy, and the work is hard, but it’s not for nothing. You’ll get to where you want to be and you’ll become the person you want to become. Or maybe, you’ll blossom into a version of yourself you didn’t even know you wanted or didn’t know was possible. You don’t have to have all the answers. You don’t have to think about everything you need to do to get to the finish line. You just have to focus on the most immediate thing in front of you and do what you need to survive today. This work will pay off. And if it doesn’t - if you end up somewhere else entirely — know that the growth it took to get to wherever you land is valuable in it’s own right. So keep building. Keep taking it one day at a time. Breathe. Things won’t be this hard forever. There’s a point beyond this pain, and you’ll get there.”

— Daniell Koepke (via captivatesme)