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So let people back into your life. Trust that people have your best interest at heart.

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I want a love that stays. A love that is permanent in a temporary world. A love that makes me understand why it never worked out with anyone else.

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The way you are feeling right this second will not last forever, even if it feels like it will.

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I hope you never stand in your own way. I hope you don’t let your own thoughts belittle you or your actions stop you from trying to change or improve your life. I hope you always find the courage to take big risks or end bad relationships. I hope you always find yourself daring and dreaming. I hope you never let your fears define your life. I hope you always break all the rules and the barriers you set for yourself that limited you from living your life to the fullest.

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I hope you never forget that you’re human. I hope that instead of searching for perfection, you search for meaning. Instead of searching for stability, search for happiness. Instead of putting timelines and deadlines to your life, put an end to your doubts and never lose hope that when your time comes, it’s going to be better than anything you had imagined for yourself. It’s going to be worth the wait.

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We all have bad days, bad moods, bad streaks. And that’s okay — as long as you accept that you’re not perfect and learn from those mistakes. As long as you do not let those negative moments define you.

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Your heart may feel like it’s in pieces, but you are still whole. You may feel weak but you are not helpless. You are beautiful and worth loving. Don’t you ever forget that.

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Trust the part of yourself that knows there’s so much more to you. There’s more to life. There’s more than what you’re settling for.

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It’s okay to feel sad. In fact, it’s completely normal. Embrace your sadness, cry it out, but most importantly, surround yourself with good people. You may have lost one of the most important people in your life, but you have your family and/or your friends and they will always be there for you. Let them shower you in kindness and know that everything may feel awful now, but things will get better. You do have support, and you’re not alone.

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If you’re reading this and you’re still young, you’ve got to fight for your existence.

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So today all I’ve done is cry my muscles have left me my strength has taken its pants off and is wearing a soft robe taking a bath reading a newspaper “you’ll be fine” strength says “just be there” “on the floor?” I whine “will I ever stand?” “of course you’ll stand you can only cry for so long there cannot only be tears in your heart just as there cannot only be joy” “I’m so tired of choosing these ones” “I know, love” strength says softly he gets out of the bath and pats over in his slippers and just looks at me with a little sigh and I look up and being seen makes me wish to just cry harder “you should just stay there” he says as he walks into the next room “but, wait.. what if I can’t do it?” “you will” “but what if tomorrow I still can’t?” “then tomorrow you won’t” “all of this is okay don’t you see?” and I don’t because I’m lying on the floor and when you are lying on the floor with tears welling in your eyes you forget that you will ever rise again. (Source: thoughtcatalog.com)

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The strongest people have been weak and helpless before. They had to learn how to be strong and resilient. They had to learn how to fight for their voice and stand up for themselves. They had to learn how to survive. They had to learn how to live alone when all they ever needed was a hand to hold.

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I think it’s important to recognize that we are living, breathing miracles capable of so much more than we give ourselves credit for. We have survived dark days and earthquakes and heartbreak. We persist and persist and persist some more.

Keep it up.

And remember – Everything stops. Love, life, pain, us.

I think it’s important to realize that we continue onward and upward regardless of the past and though our futures are unknown and unwritten, don’t forget that when nothing is certain, anything is possible.

Keep the faith.

I think it’s important to reiterate that it’s okay to change. It’s okay to be different than you used to be. It’s perfectly acceptable to make different decisions if the old ones aren’t working out for you. It’s absolutely fine to redefine a relationship if the old version isn’t serving you. Try new things and see what works best for you. Do more of what feels good. Prioritize yourself.

Keep exploring.

Moving forward, I think it’s important to remember that you are right where you need to be, and even though life can feel occasionally overwhelming, and even though options abound and improvement lies around every corner of every street we may wander down, right now, I think it’s important to recognize you are doing what has to be done, and I beg you, don’t forget, you are already and always enough.

Keep going.

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I hope that you choose love again and again and again, no matter what has happened to you in your past. Don’t give up on it. Your entire being is composed of it.

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Sometimes you really do need to break before you can fully become. And sometimes the breaking can seem like the end. But then one day, you will wake up and realize that you were always the key to healing your own heart.

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You are better than this. You are too good for them. You don’t deserve a halfway kind of love. You don’t deserve uncertainty and you certainly should be more than just someone’s back up safety plan.

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I think when you miss someone it just proves that they did matter at one time or another.

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