Climate Quotes

“they told me my job description but i think i’ve got it wrong. they said i was supposed to man the lighthouse and save lost ships from going down.
but every time i saw the ships i forgot about the light. i dove headfirst into the sea and swam to save their life.
  i drowned us both in the process; the ships never found the shore. i ended up helping less when i meant to be helping more.
  i think when they told me to save people with my light, i mistook their words and tried to save people with my life.
  i know i should have turned the light on, i know i should have taken their advice, but i don’t know what love is if it is not sacrifice.”
― Whitney Hanson, Climate

“nothing bites harder than my own expectations”
― Whitney Hanson, Climate

“for once i wanted someone to be so sure of me
that everything else disappears.”
― Whitney Hanson, Climate

“i can’t tell if my expectations for love are far too high or far too low”
― Whitney Hanson, Climate

“all the parts you think are broken or missing, love will put them back.”
― Whitney Hanson, Climate

“hope is found in the way things always rearrange. you can find solace in the fact that even if this is the worst storm you’ve yet to face, the sun will always fall back into place.”
― Whitney Hanson, Climate

“and time will carry them away again. sometimes i wake”
― Whitney Hanson, Climate

“some things you should know
about loving me:
i will take some time to trust you
my heart is a little black and blue
from hands that were
a little too clumsy to hold it
i keep myself a little bit hidden
i keep my walls a little bit high
but when they fall
you won’t have to remind me of your birthday
i hold in my heart
the freckle counting
text me when you’re home
call me when you need me
kind of love
i won’t let you
have a single doubt in your mind
that the love song stuck in my head
says anything but your name
because the thing about having a heart
with walls around it
is that once you’re let inside
it makes a safe place
to stay”
― Whitney Hanson, Climate

“i don’t feel like i need to impress you to keep you here. you might not suppose that means much, but i’ve been fighting for people to stay for so long that i thought i forgot how to just love someone. how to just be loved. how to let my existence be the only thing they’re looking for in me.

thank you for helping me believe
that i have always been enough
that i don’t have to be anything more
that i shouldn’t feel like being loved
is something i must beg for”
― Whitney Hanson, Climate

“it wasn’t love at first sight
that isn’t to say
that i was not mesmerized when i met you
but rather it is to say that there was something far more captivating than the way you looked
i didn’t fall in love when i found you
i fell in love with what i found in you”
― Whitney Hanson, Climate

“when will i ever be good enough for you?”
i said to the girl in the mirror.”
― Whitney Hanson, Climate

“the worst kind of homesickness
is the kind where you just want to get back
to yourself”
― Whitney Hanson, Climate

“i wish we treated broken hearts
like broken bones
and sent ambulances
for bleeding souls.”
― Whitney Hanson, Climate

“all the reasons you believe you are unlovable are all the reasons you need love. love will heal you in the places closed doors won’t.”
― Whitney Hanson, Climate

“the thing about the sadness
is that it isn’t invasive.
it doesn’t walk in on a beautiful day
and suddenly everything becomes dim.
it is different than that.
sadness doesn’t kidnap its victims
it befriends them.
it doesn’t walk in forcefully and drag you down
it invites you,
tells you exactly what you want to hear:
you are safe,
there are no expectations here.
it promises you rest at the cost of happiness.
there are no chains tying me to sadness
but i go willingly.”
― Whitney Hanson, Climate

“sometimes
love isn’t the fall.
it is the time you spend
sitting on the edge of the cliff
learning each other’s souls”
― Whitney Hanson, Climate

“it doesn’t hurt
like it once did
and that is enough
to go on”
― Whitney Hanson, Climate

“sometimes we don’t need someone
to bring back the sun
sometimes we just need someone
to sit with us in the rain”
― Whitney Hanson, Climate

“maybe the consistency we need to embrace
is the surety of change.
i’ve decided to stop putting my faith in happiness.
rather i choose to believe there is balance
in the way the good and the bad shake hands.
i choose to believe there is hope
in the change i don’t understand.”
― Whitney Hanson, Climate

“you leave me empty in all the best ways
empty of the doubt
that no one will be able to love me
empty of the certainty
that i will always be a little bit short
of what someone is looking for
empty of all the things
i was never meant to be full of
so much time i wasted looking
for someone to make me feel full
i never realized that being emptied
was always what i needed more”
― Whitney Hanson, Climate

“i shared my favorite song with you
and i know that you weren’t aware
but that was my way of saying i love you
because every feeling music floods me with
i wanted you to feel it too”
― Whitney Hanson, Climate

“i’ve never been one to expect blue skies
i’ve never been one to anticipate the best.
that makes trust difficult for me.
that makes placing my hope in people impossible.
this is how i knew you were special.
the moment i met you,
trust became easy.
anticipating the best wasn’t so difficult for me.
i’ve never met someone who’s very nature
drew sunlight from within me.
the moment i met you,
i started anticipating skies that were blue.
everything that was difficult for me
became easy when i was with you.”
― Whitney Hanson, Climate

“if they feel like
hearing your favorite song
for the first time
don’t let them go”
― Whitney Hanson, Climate

“i want you
the way you want me
and i think that’s rare
~mutual love”
― Whitney Hanson, Climate

“i have always been
a strong believer in magic
but not the kind that you find in fairytales
but the type that music and sunsets are composed of
i think that you are made of it too”
― Whitney Hanson, Climate

“i’m afraid that if i let my soul get too light
it will float away from me
~fear of healing”
― Whitney Hanson, Climate

“i’ve heard that the first step to finding your way is admitting that you are lost. there may not be a map written in the stars. there may be a long journey ahead. but looking up and asking what now? might be the first step.”
― Whitney Hanson, Climate

“sane love makes you feel insane
if insane love is all you have ever known
patient love makes you feel restless
if restless love is all you have ever known
gentle love makes you feel uneasy
if uneasy love is all you have ever known
peaceful love makes you feel anxious
if anxious love is all you have ever known
we are creatures of the love that we know
the way we are accustomed to receiving love
defines the love that we search for”
― Whitney Hanson, Climate

“growth will only come
when i surrender
in a war where the enemy is me.”
― Whitney Hanson, Climate

“i don’t want to be looked at
if you are not here to see my soul
there is so much of me to behold
i don’t want to be looked at,
i want to be seen.”
― Whitney Hanson, Climate