Put yourself first

[incipienthappiness-quotes]

If the people believe that you are so-and-so, then you are so-and-so. They may be a hundred thousand miles off the mark, but still they will only see what they want to see.

Heaven Official's Blessing / Tiān Guān Cì Fú- Mo Xiang Tong Xiu

[carnationhues]

... And honey, must you train your body to withstand every poison, for a snake that knows how to love holds the most dangerous venom.

The Bite of a Toxic Romance.

- Helzrika, 2022. (One Liner)

[odisorcerer]

“Good people are like candles, they burn themselves up to give others light.”

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[overcalm]

“Darkness is always seen as a bad thing, as something to fight, but whenever the light hits something it necessarily creates a shadow too and the brighter is the light, the thicker is the darkness. One can’t live without the other.”

— Marta Petrone

[dharmarainbow]

“You can not ask the darkness to leave. You must turn on the light.”

— Sogyal Rinpoche

[m-l-rio]

“Awareness has infinite gradations, like light.”

— Ignazio Silone, Bread and Wine (trans. Harvey Fergusson II)

[macrolit]

“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.”

— Edith Wharton (b. 24 January 1862)

[hinasyeda]

“Don’t feed doubts; feed patience.”

— work harder. work smarter. take a little more pain (for your dreams) // Hina Syeda

[hinasyeda]

“Forgive to let go, not to be used again.”

— people show you who they are;  forgive and move on // Hina Syeda

[thehopefulquotes]

I do not exist to impress the world. I exist to live my life in a way that will make me happy.

— Richard Bach

[thehopefulquotes]

If you were born with the weakness to fall, you were born with the strength to rise.

— Rupi Kaur, Milk and Honey

[resqectable]

“If the highest aim of a captain was to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.”

— Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica (via thoughtkick)

[thehopefulquotes]

Communicate. Even when it's uncomfortable or uneasy. One of the best ways to heal, is simply getting everything out.

— Unknown

[naturaekos]

“Never chase love. If it isn’t given freely, it is worthless”

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[naturaekos]

“There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.”

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[naturaekos]

““I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.””

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[relatablepoetryandquotes]

“By nothing do men show their character more than by the things they laugh at.” - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Maxims and Reflections