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Sometimes you simply needed someone kind to sit with you while you dealt with things.

Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine (via anditslove)

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“I am learning that the difference between a garden and a graveyard is only what you choose to put in the ground.”

— Rudy Francisco, “The Heart and the Fist”

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When is the right time for anything? Who knows? Living is an art, not a science.

Benjamin Alire Sáenz, The Inexplicable Logic of My Life (via anditslove)

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Milk & Honey, Thomas Jordan

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In your friendships/relationships, I think it’s important to ask the other person how they like to be comforted. Much like the love languages, everyone responds differently to certain actions during times of stress. Some may like advice or words of affirmation while others may need a hug or someone to just nod and listen. Asking them how they want to be comforted shows that you care about them and want them to feel acknowledged when they’re upset.

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- Fire on the horizon -

by Pedro Gabriel

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Don’t be afraid to lose people. Be afraid of losing yourself by trying to please everyone around you.

Unknown (via deeplifequotes)

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Fun little trick I learned in therapy: validation. When someone is upset, don’t try to fix the problem, point out the cause, or tell them it could be worse. Just validate their emotions. Be like, ‘shit yeah man, that sucks. I’m sorry you’re going through that. I’m here for you.’ That’s literally all you have to do to make them feel better. Thank you and goodnight.

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life is sometimes rough but my general goal is to remain as kind and thoughtful a person as possible

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Just because something is difficult doesn’t mean it’s impossible. Uncomfortable? Yes. Exhausting and overwhelming and painfully hard? Yes. But not impossible. And it won’t necessarily feel this difficult and debilitating forever. You’ve made it through similar hard things before. You’ve survived every single bad day and every obstacle the universe has ever thrown at you. You’ve survived all the things you felt convinced would break you. Every single one. And this is evidence that you can make it through this too. You don’t have to figure everything out today. You don’t have to solve your whole life tonight. And you don’t have to tackle everything at once. You just have to show up and try. You just have to focus on the most immediate thing in front of you. And you have to trust that you’ll figure out the rest along the way. It’s okay to struggle. It’s okay to feel overwhelmed. And its okay to make mistakes. You’re still learning how to navigate this new path. It’s going to take time, and you’re allowed to give yourself that time. You don’t have to be perfect. You don’t have to get all A’s or be the best version of yourself or outperform everyone else. All you have to do is show up and try. It’s always been enough before. It will be enough this time too.

Daniell Koepke (via internal-acceptance-movement)

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by Nadine Shaabana

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“Somewhere in me a city’s on fire.”

— Christine Taylor, from “When They Come,” published in Glass: A Journal of Poetry

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It’s a beautiful thing when you get so comfortable with someone and you realize you’re telling them things you’ve never said out loud before

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“I don’t know how to write love letters,” Frida Kahlo wrote in 1946. “But I wanted to tell you that my whole being opened for you. Since I fell in love with you everything is transformed and is full of beauty… love is like an aroma, like a current, like rain.”

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last touch of light

by Denny Bitte