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“It’s been a long time since I’ve been me.”

— Fernando Pessoa

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Frank O’Hara, from Selected Poems; “Adieu to Norman, Bon Jour to Joan and Jean-Paul”

[Text ID: the only thing to do is simply continue / is that simple / yes, it is simple because it is the only thing to do / can you do it / yes, you can because it is the only thing to do]

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“Time moves slowly, but passes quickly.”

— Alice Walker, The Color Purple

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“There comes a time when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you’d better learn the sound of it. Otherwise you’ll never understand what it’s saying.”

— Sarah Dessen

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“How are you supposed to find what you’re looking for if you’re not convinced it’s even out there?”

— Jennifer E. Smith, This Is What Happy Looks Like

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It’s weird to grow up in a family where you know you’re loved but you don’t feel loved. And then later in adulthood you understand how almost impossible it seems to cross that distance and let yourself experience closeness, how otherworldly love feels now and how love feels unbearable at times. You flinch when someone tries to wholeheartedly love you. And over and over you see so clearly how you cannot be loved unless it's from afar and love is mixed with that familiar sensation of distance and coldness.

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“That’s the thing about depression: A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight. But depression is so insidious, and it compounds daily, that it’s impossible to ever see the end. The fog is like a cage without a key.”

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

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“Feelings come and feelings go. There is no need to fear them and no need to crave them. Be open to your feelings and experience them while they are here. Then be open to the feelings that will come next. Your feelings are a part of your experience. Yet no mere feeling, however intense it may seem, is your permanent reality.”

— Ralph Marston

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“You get a strange feeling when you’re about to leave a place. Like you’ll not only miss the people you love but you’ll miss the person you are now at this time and this place because you’ll never be this way ever again.”

— Azar Nafisi; Reading Lolita in Tehran

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“Only those who care about you, can hear you when you’re quiet.”

— lieinlove

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Tw: medical stuff

Really out here past midnight lamenting on the fact that I'll probably never be able to conceive my own kid... Thanks brain.

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“It’s interesting how something that comes so easily to one person can be so impossible for someone else.”

— Susane Colasanti, So Much Closer

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“It doesn’t matter what other people think of you. All that matters is what you think of you.”

— Robin Sharma

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do u want the good news or the bad news

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“I’m with you. No matter what else you have in your head I’m with you and I love you.”

— Ernest Hemingway

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If you're struggling to make the change, it's because the old behavior is still meeting a need.

Instead of shaming yourself, identify the deeper need and allow it to exist

Then get curious about a new way to meet it.

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Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects