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For a while, everything ached and then a little voice inside of me said, "Hey, you have to do something other than hurt all the time." And I said, "I know. I know. I'm trying." — Sue Zhao

I don't totally know where I'm going, but that's never stopped me before. — Unknown

She is holding on, but barely. Gripping whatever she can to keep it together for another day. She doesn't think about next week or next month, just today. That's what she tells herself. That's how she's gone this long. Just keep it together, today. — JmStorm

Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep, really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough. — Ernest Hemingway

It’s hard to navigate a world where you have to think twice - and hard - about who you should let into your world - your heart, thoughts, and feelings. — thoumeghts

I want to be happy but something inside me screams that I do not deserve it. — M.B.

I like beginnings because they're so full of promise. The first page of a book, the first day of a job, the first time you buy yourself flowers, the first date with someone new, the first touch, the first kiss, the first kick of a good liquor, the first moment you hold your own baby. I like beginnings because I know there's always more to come. — Shyma Perera, Bitter Sweet Symphony

I overthink. I over love. I over feel. I am the sea or I am nothing. — Juansen Dizon

I vaguely remember of a time when I knew and truly felt connected with myself. But increasingly, it feels like I’ve unknowingly left that person behind somewhere along the way… and it’s painful to face that. — thoumeghts

I will forever be a hopeless romantic, and not just with people, but with places, things, songs, animals. I place my love into everything electric and soft, leaving my heart open like a rose to the beauty. — Christopher Pointdexter

Watch carefully, the magic that occurs, when you give a person, just enough comfort, to be themselves. — Atticus

The strongest people are the ones who are still kind even after the world tore them a part. — Raven Emotion

Universal law dictates that no soul can hurt you without handing you the keys to their destruction. — Lang Leav

The first time he read your poetry, he didn’t say that it was too sad. He shook his head, said it felt familiar; said it felt like he was coming home. You replied you were sorry that he felt that way. He kissed your fingertips and said, don’t be sorry. He said: in a way it’s comforting. I’ve been trying to find a way back for a long time. — Sue Zhao, Nothing but Strawberries #11

Please don't expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand... — Unknown

At the end of the day, I just want to be proud of the person I have become. I want to be proud of the love I gave — of the way in which I risked my heart despite the things it had been through. I want to be proud of the effort I showed those I cared about, I want to know with a ruthless certainly that I showed up as much as I could, that I made people feel seen, that I made those around me feel less alone in this chaotic world. I want to be proud of my life — of the way I healed, of the way I felt everything even when it wasn't convenient or comfortable. I want to be proud of the way I grew, of the way I let go, of the way I pushed myself to be a better person. At the end of the day, I just want to be able to say without hesitation that I lived my life, that I did not just take a back seat to my fear, or to my flaws, or to whatever hardships came my way. I want to be able to say that I am proud of the way I survived. I want to be able to say that I did not take one day for granted, that I truly gave it my all. — Bianca Sparacino

If you listen closely to the air just before it rains, it sounds like arms reaching to hold you. — William Bertz

You're important to me. I think if there's anything that will last forever, it's that. Whether we separate, stay in touch or rarely speak again, you will always be that little someone I really do care for, that I would sacrifice everything for to protect and keep safe. — Beau Taplin, The Promise

And that was the thing about her, she kept on surviving. With bullet holes in her lungs, and knife marks itched in her back. She never let anything get in her way, resilient. A fighter, not by choice. But a warrior at heart. — k.a.

There’s just so much unease within me but I have no way or place to get all of it out of me. — thoumeghts

Please be patient with me. Sometimes when I'm quiet, it's because I need to figure myself out. It's not because I don't want to talk. Sometimes there are no words for my thoughts. — Kamla Bolanos

You're allowed to be excited about the little things. You're allowed to be goofy. You're allowed to be dorky about your favorite tv show, to make blanket forts, to enjoy cheesy movies, even just to sleep with stuffed animals. You're allowed to do any of the things that make life a little more bearable. It's fine, okay? — Unknown

I wish I could show, when you are lonely or in darkness, the astonishing light of your own being. — Hafiz

You treat them as if the have a heart like yours, but not everyone can be as soft and as tender as you. You don't see the person they are, you see the person they have the potential to be. You give and give till they have taken everything out of you and leave you empty. — Rupi Kaur

Every dreamer knows that it is entirely possible to be homesick for a place you've never been to, perhaps more homesick than for familiar ground. — Judith Thurman

I was born a dreamer, but this world keeps spoon feeding me reality. — Sana Abuleil

I have this strange feeling that I’m not myself anymore. It’s hard to put into words, but I guess it’s like I was fast asleep, and someone came, disassembled me, and hurriedly put me back together again. That sort of feeling.— Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

Her sentences were icebergs, with just the tip of her thought coming out of her mouth, and the rest kept up in her head, which I was starting to think was more and more beautiful the longer I looked at her. — Gregory Galloway, As Simple as Snow

The thoughts in my mind… they aren’t always the best companions to live with. There are a lot of them, sometimes they come knocking on the door all at once. Other times, they pop in for surprise visits one by one throughout the day. But either way, they’re mostly visitors that are unwelcome. — thoumeghts

I'm afraid to write about it because no matter how I word it you will never known what I felt in that instance... — Unknown

Basically, this means if you are sensitive, you have the ability to see colors and feel energy the way others hear jet planes. The world takes on a rich tapestry of immense gorgeousness at almost every turn, which then fuels your imagination and makes you spin with aliveness. And aliveness is a grand thing. — Victoria Erickson

My heart is not captured easily. I am disinterested in small talk, disillusioned with love, and too focused on my dreams and aspirations to lend anybody my attention for long. But if we make that connection, if you find your way into my heart, God, I will fall for you like gravity has let go of the earth. — Beau Taplin, The Connection

Brave girl. Fighting back those tears. Trying to be so strong. You are not alone. I feel you. I am you. — K. Azizian

When my last day comes, I hope I've left nothing but love. — Perry Poetry

Talking to someone every single day for hours can be pretty destructive because there will come a day where you don't speak at all and it's going to be the loneliest feeling in the world. — Unknown

I always thought that it is way more important to be funny or to be honest than to look a certain way. — Emma Stone

How is it so easy for you to be kind to people he asked. Milk and honey dripped from my lips as I answered, cause people have not been kind to me. — Rupi Kaur

I am still learning how to go back & reread my own chapters without feeling like I want to set all of my pages on fire. — E.V. Rogina

Being our messy, imperfect, authentic selves helps create a space where others feel safe to be themselves, too. Your vulnerability can be a gift to others, how badass is that? — b.oakman

You never know the last time you’ll see a place. A person. — Jenny Han, It's Not Summer Without You

Let’s just live and what happens will happen. — Youth in Revolt

I'm not for everyone. I'm barely for me. — Marc Maron

I am one of the searchers. There are, I believe, millions of us. We are not unhappy, but neither are we really content. We continue to explore life, hoping to uncover its ultimate secret. We continue to explore ourselves, hoping to understand. We like to walk along the beach, we are drawn by the ocean, taken by its power, its unceasing motion, its mystery and unspeakable beauty. We like forests and mountains deserts and hidden rivers, and the lonely cities as well. Our sadness is as much a part of our lives as is our laughter. To share our sadness with one we love is perhaps as great a joy as we can know - unless it be to share our laughter. We, searchers, are ambitious only for life itself, for everything beautiful it can provide. Most of all we love and want to be loved. We want to live in a relationship that will not impede our wandering, nor prevent our search, nor lock us in prison walls; that will take us for what little we have to give. We do not want to prove ourselves to another or compete for love. — James Kavanaugh

Each time we don't say what we wanna say, we're dying. — Yoko Ono

All human beings search for either reasons to be good, or excuses to be bad. — Chuck Palahniuk

I'm sorry that I'm both your umbrella and the rain. — Tablo

There are two reasons why people don't talk about things; either it doesn't mean anything to them, or it means everything. — Luna Adriana

Perhaps I don't deserve nice things cause I am paying for sins I don't remember. — Rupi Kaur

You make choices in life. You know, you win something, you lose something. — Mark, 6 Years

All I feel are the assaults of apprehension and terror at the thought that I am the only one who is entirely unlike the rest. It is almost impossible for me to converse with other people. What should I talk about, how should I say it? — I don't know. — Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

I feel very small. I don't understand. I have so much courage, fire, energy, for many things, yet I get so hurt, so wounded by small things. — Anais Nin, Nearer the Moon

Nobody was perfect. Not even close. And everybody had wrinkles from smiling and squinting and craning their necks. Everybody has marks on their bodies from years of living- a trail of life left on them. Evidence of all the adventures and sleepless nights and practical jokes and heartbreak that had made them who they are. —Katherine Center, Everyone is Beautiful