I Wrote This for You, 2007-2017 Quotes

“I hide because there’s more to me than what you see and I’m not sure you’d like the rest. I know that sometimes, I don’t like the rest.”
― Iain Thomas, I Wrote This for You, 2007-2017

“The Million Ways To Fail
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Tuesday, June 30, 2015
Here’s how you fail: You fail with your heart on your sleeve.
You fail like you mean it with every part of you.
You fail attempting the impossible and the ridiculous.
You fail in front of others and you fail and they laugh at you and you fail and you feel nothing and regret less.
You fail sincerely and earnestly and you risk everything at every opportunity.
This is how you fail: You fail beautifully
You fail with grace.”
― Iain S. Thomas, I Wrote This for You, 2007-2017

“I keep wondering, how many people do you need to be, before you can become yourself.”
― Iain Thomas, I Wrote This for You, 2007-2017

“The Taking Of Turns

Monday, June 14, 2010
You are in some songs that still get played on the radio when the DJ is feeling nostalgic.
You are in a book you once lent me (never returned) with yellowed pages.
You are in trees when I touch them, even ones without names carved into them.
You are in the way someone on the street laughs as I pass them.
You are in a box I keep filled with letters.
You are in a ring I no longer wear.
And, every day, you each get a moment to haunt me.”
― Iain S. Thomas, I Wrote This for You, 2007-2017

“if you think being cynical about the way the world is and the people in it is a viable strategy for being alive, then someone or something has hurt you and I’m sorry for the hurt that you feel.”
― Iain S. Thomas, I Wrote This for You, 2007-2017

“There is an innocent but selfish part of you that wants to love and be loved because you know being loved will make you want to be worthy of being loved.

There is a part of you that just wants to see the kind of person you could be, through someone else's eyes.”
― Iain S. Thomas, I Wrote This for You, 2007-2017

“And every day, the world will drag you by the hand, yelling "This is important! And this is important! And this is important! You need to worry about this! And this! And this!"

And each day, it's up to you, to yank your hand back, put it on your heart and say "No. This is what's important.”
― Iain S. Thomas, I Wrote This for You, 2007-2017

“My worry is that what you measure yourself with ends up defining you. You pour yourself into the thing that measures you and it defines you. And I just hope that one day you find out that you're fuller when you measure yourself in love and people and moments, instead of things, adoration and money.”
― Iain S. Thomas, I Wrote This for You, 2007-2017

“How many hearts would be invaded for the wrong reasons, if each time you said “I love you,” you meant it?”
― Iain Thomas, I Wrote This for You, 2007-2017

“You forget that even the strongest person to ever live had a weakest day of their life.”
― Iain Thomas, I Wrote This for You, 2007-2017

“The Middle of the Bridge

I didn’t ask you here so you could like me.

I asked you here so that someone would know who I was.”
― Iain S. Thomas, I Wrote This for You, 2007-2017

“## *The Gods Tremble at Quiet Strength*

I know you best when you are flowers in the barrels of rifles.

I know you best when you are brave.

I know you when your strength comes from your compassion and when your greatest fear, is that you have not been compassionate enough.

I know you when you look at others not as others but as people you might have been, as people your parents might have been, as people your children might still be.

I know you and I see you when you stand up.

I know you and I see you when they tell you to be afraid, to hate, to go away from the world, to go away from each other. I know you and I see you when they scream storms at you, when they bury you beneath mountains, when they drown you in oceans, when they push you under and yet still you whisper from the deepest part of you:

“No.”

And when you do, I look at you and I say, “There you are.

I know you.”
― Iain S. Thomas, I Wrote This for You, 2007-2017