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One of my professors told me that forgiveness and trust are different. Forgiveness, she said, takes one person, but trust takes two. It requires one to be trustworthy for the other to trust. We talked about infidelity, and she told me that it takes an average of two full years for a relationship to recover to a place of trust. She told me that forgiveness doesn’t lead to trust. Only trustworthiness leads to trust–and not one act or one day of trustworthiness, but many many acts and days of that loyalty. It takes lots of little t’s to yield the big T….lots of little trustworthy demonstrations for Trust to be reborn. Forgive as you have been forgiven, but only trust the trustworthy–that’s how you live in healthy relationships.

L.B.A. (via yesdarlingido)

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Breathe. It’s okay. You’re going to be okay. Just breathe. Breathe, and remind yourself of all the times in the past you felt this scared. All of the times you felt this anxious and this overwhelmed. All of the times you felt this level of pain. And remind yourself how each time, you made it through. Life has thrown so much at you, and despite how difficult things have been, you’ve survived. Breathe and trust that you can survive this too. Trust that this struggle is part of the process. And trust that as long as you don’t give up and keep pushing forward, no matter how hopeless things seem, you will make it.

Daniell Koepke (via lovelustquotes)

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I’m scared for the time when I need to say goodbye to you. Even though it is the best thing to do. I’m scared to see you suffer, cry, and hurt yourself. I wish I’d be there to comfort and hug you. But I shouldn’t. I can’t. You don’t know how much I wanted to be with you. But I need to go back in the real world. And so do you.

Your secrets are safe here (via thesecretletter)

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Someone can be madly in love with you and still not be ready. They can love you in a way you have never been loved and still not join you on the bridge. And whatever their reasons you must leave. Because you never ever have to inspire anyone to meet you on the bridge. You never ever have to convince someone to do the work to be ready. There is more extraordinary love, more love that you have never seen, out here in this wide and wild universe. And there is the love that will be ready.

Nayyirah Waheed (via

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people are allowed to leave you. people are allowed to break up with you. people are allowed to love you but not want to be with you. people are allowed to not want to talk to you. people are allowed to put their happiness before yours and do what makes them happy even if it does not include you. people are allowed to move on from you. people are allowed to fall in love with someone else. people are allowed to not want you in their life. people are allowed to do whatever they want to better themselves and become the version of themselves they are trying so hard to love. don’t be bitter towards someone who is only trying to be happy.

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@lykeminded

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“Some of the most poisonous people come disguised as family and friends.”

— Unknown

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“There are some people you’ll never see again. At least, not in the same way.”

— Iain Thomas