Poetry Is The Clear Expression Of Mixed Feelings

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“I survived because the fire inside me burned brighter than the fire around me.”

— Joshua Graham

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“Feelings are just fleeting on the surface. But emotions, they’re very deep, primal; they linger.”

— Phillip Noyce

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“The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.”

— Lao Tzu

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“We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.”

— Seneca

[amirakhaledd]

“I hope you find a man who doesn’t just give you flowers and calls you beautiful, I hope you find a man who visits your family when you’re homesick. I hope he goes with you to see your sick grandma in the hospital, I hope he gives you space when you need to be alone and grace when you are not patient with him. I hope you find a good man, one who will love you for who you are and not what you can give. I hope that you find someone who will cherish and respect you, opening your heart to new and good things. I hope you find a man who makes you forget all the other men, who gives you hope in something more. I hope you find the courage to be willing to wait for something solid instead of something flashy, because when you’ve found that one good man, I know he’ll light up the stars to see you smile.”

— T.B. LaBerge // A Good Man (via tblaberge)

[especiallypeaches]

Such is love that you hit a wall more times than you climb it, and such is love that in either possibility, you haven’t lost. Either we are all losers in love or we are all winners—I choose winners. There can’t be fault in wondering whether something was meant to mean more than you’ve let it. Don’t hate the universe for the answer it gives you.

If you need to know so bad, ask

[somepiecesofmyheartandsoul-deac]

“I never knew how lonely I was, until I saw your face at the end of a dream I had just before I woke up. I never knew how much I longed for warmth, until I felt your touch at the end of a seemingly endless sleep.”

— Lukas W. // I need you (via somepiecesofmyheartandsoul)

[glacierlakes]

“I always have such need to merely talk to you. Even when I have nothing to talk about – with you I just seem to go right ahead and sort of invent it. I invent it for you. Because I never seem to run out of tenderness for you and because I need to feel you near. Excuse the bad writing and excuse the emotional overflow. What I mean to say, perhaps, is that, in a way, I am never empty of you; not for a moment, an instant, a single second.”

— Virginia Woolf, from a letter to Vita Sackville-West (via violentwavesofemotion)

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“I’m guilty of giving people more chances than they deserve but when I’m done, I’m done.”

— Turcois Ominek

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“We need people in our lives with whom we can be as open as possible. To have real conversations with people may seem like such a simple, obvious suggestion, but it involves courage and risk.”

— Thomas Moore

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“But sometimes your light attracts moths and your warmth attracts parasites. Protect your space and energy.”

— Warsan Shire

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“You don’t just stop loving someone because they don’t love you back.”

— Roald Dahl

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“We’re stronger in the places that we’ve been broken.”

— Ernest Hemingway

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“What seems like a reasonable distance to one person may feel too far to somebody else.”

— Haruki Murakami

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“Maybe that’s worse, not letting ourselves be loved. Because we’re too afraid of giving ourselves to someone we might lose.”

— Mitch Albom

[written-feeling]

Why did I fall for you.

Six word story //

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Do it or don’t do it — you will regret both.

Søren Kierkegaard (via quotemadness)