Dianne Qualls > Dianne's Quotes

“For many Highly Sensitive People, fear can be debilitating.  After years of being browbeaten or otherwise treated as abnormal, we might as well own that sucker.  We are abnormal in that normal is the 80-85% of the world that are not HSPs.  Normal is the large bunch that follows the crowd and succumbs to mob mentality.  Normal is loud and inconsiderate; at least that’s how it feels in our sensitive skin (sorry normals, I’m writing for the HSP and trying to make a point – no offense meant).  Do we really want to be normal?”
― Gigi Miner, The Highly Sensitive Empath: Feeling Skinless in a Sandpaper World

“Time moves slowly, but passes quickly.”
― Alice Walker, The Color Purple

“When empathy is strong enough to make itself apparent repeatedly (usually crossing the pain threshold), we come to realize that some of those feeling are foreign. Before that moment of awareness, the sensitive person will be in a very messy situation, like a leaf in the wind floating around and moved by other people´s wants and desires. That second of awareness is when we start claiming our power.”
― Sandra Martinez, Empath Basics

“Your willingness to look at your darkness is what empowers you to change.”
― Iyanla Vanzant

“When you need to be loved, you take love wherever you can find it. When you are desperate to be loved, feel love, know love, you seek out what you think love should look like. When you find love, or what you think love is, you will lie, kill, and steal to keep it. But learning about real love comes from within. It cannot be given. It cannot be taken away. It grows from your ability to re-create within yourself, the essence of loving experiences you have had in your life.”
― Iyanla Vanzant

“there is only so much healing i can do in this space that does not allow healing at my own pace, and only, “hurry up and just be ok.”
― Jennae Cecelia, healing for no one but me

“saying i have trust issues would imply i have any trust left i just have issues”
― Michaela Angemeer, Please Love Me at My Worst

“The truth is I was an abused kid, and had never processed any of it before I left home, pregnant and married, at seventeen. And leaving home as a teen I felt like a wild animal unleashed upon the world, wild, aggressive, and terrified, a broken child with no idea how to be an adult. I left home an injured kid looking for a dark hovel to hide away from the prying eyes, brutal words, and sudden psychotic violence, a place to lick and heal my wounds, and I found everything but that. I found the world to be just as brutal as my home, and I continued to attract exactly what I was running from, over and again.”
― Victoria S. Hardy, Momma Said Write a Book About It: Memoirs of a Scapegoat

“Hundreds of images passed through her mind, memories of situations where she simply conceded and gave in with no thoughts to what was best for her, hundreds of times she just accepted whatever was handed to her as though she had no right to an opinion, a desire, an emotion, or even her own thoughts. Hundreds of times she simply gave away her own power, weak and overwhelmed and unworthy.”
― Victoria S. Hardy, Momma Said Write a Book About It: Memoirs of a Scapegoat

“I spend half the morning thinking about your phone call, and when we were up all night talking. How I felt the effect of your words on my heart. I lie in bed and I think of you. I know you come with baggage, but so do I. I know you’re scared because of how others treated you. But as the sun rises and sets, I’m falling in love with all the things you do.”
― Courtney Peppernell, Pillow Thoughts II: Healing the Heart

“Love isn’t always about falling in love with a person. Love is passing your final exams. Love is watching the sun come up between the clouds. Love is finding the light when you were in the dark. Love is when your favorite TV show returns. Love is when your dog tilts its head with confusion. Love is a free ice cream voucher left on your car windshield. Love is the leaves falling in the fall. Love is learning the constellations. Love is solving a ridiculous math problem. Love is the changing Starbucks menu for the seasons. Love is watching a child play in the sandbox. Love is warm clothes when they come out of the dryer. When you say you’ve given up on love, all you’re really saying is that you’ve closed your eyes. Open them.”
― Courtney Peppernell, Pillow Thoughts II: Healing the Heart

“Let the happiness back into your bloodstream.”
― Courtney Peppernell, Pillow Thoughts II: Healing the Heart

“How far could the known reality stretch before the fabric tore and someone was flung out into space, or madness?”
― Calvin Demmer, The Town That Feared Dusk

“I love you. The words roiled inside me”
― J. G. Gates, Dragons and Aces

“Our soulmate should not be tamed nor hunted. But free to roam the world and return to your arms over and over”
― Alicia Brattin, Once Upon a Midnight Dreary

“You need to learn one very important difference between us.” I can think of a million”
― H.D. Carlton, My Dreadful Darling

“Why?” I ask quietly. She doesn’t need me to clarify my question. Her brow arches sassily. “Because I can.”
― H.D. Carlton, My Dreadful Darling

“too. I dont want Reverie for what her body can do for me. I want her for what I can do to her body.”
― H.D. Carlton, My Dreadful Darling

“I finally understand why he’s like the sun”
― H.D. Carlton, My Dreadful Darling