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As it turns out, those roads we’ve traveled do not fade at all. They simply wait to be retraveled, leaving us with the decision to follow them exactly as we did before, or make a different choice and find out where it will lead us.
What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless. – Ovid
“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” – Soren Kierkegaard
the bridge he’d built to a new life collapsed within him. And it felt like losing her all over again.
God can heal a broken heart, but He has to have all the pieces. – Author Unknown
“A mill cannot grind with water that is past.” – American Proverb
“we put ourselves in places we would be better off not ever going in the first place.”
“You don’t get to choose, you just fall.” – Author Unknown
Giving up doesn’t always mean you are weak; sometimes it means that you are strong enough to let go.
Don’t let yesterday use up too much of today. – Cherokee Indian Proverb
Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. – Emily Bronte
most people justify their actions with excuses they believe cancel out their own accountability. Most people believe they had no choice to do anything other than what they did.
Sometimes, it is nearly impossible to look beyond the parameters of the boxes we put ourselves in. And maybe that is the one thing we should somehow find a way to do.
She understood then in a way she never had before what it meant to find the one against whom all others would forever be judged. The one for whom there would be no comparison.
In one way or another, pain is something we will all know. Even when the danger signs are held up in front of us, we have to travel the road ourselves, hoping all the while that it will have a different destination for us than the one our parents warned us about.
Since the day Becca cut him out of her life, he’d been searching for what the two of them had. And he never found it. Not even close.
If you judge people you have no time to love them. – Mother Teresa
“Nothing ever becomes real ’til it is experienced.” ― John Keats
Because how could she tell her that sometimes people didn’t get what they wanted? That maybe they were wrong to ever want it in the first place.
That real love doesn’t set boundaries or guard with jealousy those at which it is directed. Real love, whatever its origin, is to be shared. Welcomed. Valued.
But maybe life has to force us into a corner sometimes before we can take an honest look at where we are.”
Maybe it’s people who complicate things.”
Relationships are like glass. Sometimes it’s better to leave them broken than try to hurt yourself putting it back together.
Life is simple, it’s just not easy. – Author Unknown
The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it. – Henry David Thoreau
He stood in pained silence, certain that nothing could feel worse than the forced release of something you never wanted to let go of in the first place.
“Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.” – Washington Irving
“Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.” ― Voltaire
“Any fool can know. The point is to understand.” ― Albert Einstein
People only see what they are prepared to see. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love. – George Eliot
The truth is that when something doesn’t begin right, it can never end right.
Love is a gift. A gift I don’t want to turn away from.
