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The most critical, defining battles we wage in life, we wage alone. Against ourselves.
I can either be a victim—or a winner. Fuck victimhood. I don’t wear it well; it clashes with my wardrobe.
“Things never stop going wrong. Life isn’t about waiting for peace to arrive, it’s about learning to thrive in the midst of war. There’s always another one on the way.”
I think whenever you put other people in a cage—any kind of cage—you start to think of them as less real.
It was possible to love someone who was completely wrong for you. You could waste your entire life loving that person, doing enormous damage to each other and the world around you.
I pretty much loved him for that, seeing me so clearly. That’s something when your friends know who exactly you are, good, bad, right, wrong, and just keep caring about you.
“Failure is always new information, and those who are willing to suffer it repeatedly make it a stepping-stone to success.”
R-E-G-R-E-T. I can spell that word now. Raw. Endless. Grief. Raining. Eternal. Tears. That’s what regret is.
“More than the world is big. Deeper than the sky is blue. Truer than the universe is vast. I love you more eternal than pi.”
know a funny thing about eyes. Where you let them look is where they take you. Look back and you stay stuck in a lost, forever unattainable past. Look forward and you live.
