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The walls of hospitals have heard more honest prayers than churches. They have witnessed far more sincere kisses than those in airports.

It is in hospitals that you see a homophobe being saved by a gay doctor. A privileged doctor saving the life of a beggar. In intensive care, you see a Jew taking care of a racist. A police officer and a prisoner in the same room receiving the same care. A wealthy patient waiting for a liver transplant, ready to receive the organ from a poor donor.

It is in these moments, when the hospital touches the wounds of people, that different worlds intersect according to a divine design. And in this communion of destinies, we realize that alone, we are nothing.

The absolute truth of people, most of the time, only reveals itself in moments of pain or in the real threat of an irreversible loss.

A hospital is a place where human beings remove their masks and show themselves as they truly are, in their purest essence.

This life will pass quickly, so do not waste it fighting with people.

Do not criticize your body too much.

Do not complain excessively.

Do not lose sleep over bills.

Make sure to hug your loved ones.

Do not worry too much about keeping the house spotless.

Material goods must be earned by each person—do not dedicate yourself to accumulating an inheritance.

You are waiting for too much: Christmas, Friday, next year, when you have money, when love arrives, when everything is perfect...

Listen, perfection does not exist. A human being cannot attain it because we are simply not made to be fulfilled here.

Here, we are given an opportunity to learn. So, make the most of this trial of life—and do it now.

Respect yourself, respect others. Walk your own path, and let go of the path others have chosen for you.

Respect: do not comment, do not judge, do not interfere.

Love more, forgive more, embrace more, live more intensely!

And leave the rest in the hands of the Creator.

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“You,” he said, “are a terribly real thing in a terribly false world, and that, I believe, is why you are in so much pain.”

— “The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls,” Emilie Autumn

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Pass the Baton

A Poem

Just because we didn't work out

doesn't mean it's your loss

or my loss either.

Our chapter is over

and I want you to win

as bad as I want to win too.

I'm not gonna try and make

you regret it

or make you jealous

because there's enough room

for all of us to win.

I'm not gonna find someone

better than you, but I'll find

someone better for me.

Just as you have.

We were on the same team

then and we’re on the same

team now.

Just headed for different directions.

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Pixel Art by Sun Pixels

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If life can remove people you never dreamt of losing, it can replace them with someone you never dreamt of having.

-@lipikkawrites

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Stop crying, he's not worth it.

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“I plant roots so deeply in the people I love that I always lose a piece of myself when they go.”

— Beau Taplin

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“There is a time in life when you expect the world to be always full of new things. And then comes a day when you realize that is not how it will be at all. You see that life will become a thing made of holes. Absences. Losses. Things that were there and are no longer. And you realize, too, that you have to grow around and between the gaps, though you can put your hand out to where things were and feel that tense, shining dullness of the space where the memories are.”

— Helen Macdonald, H is for Hawk

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Of all the places I could be, why would I want to be here with you? Yes. You’re right. It doesn’t make sense! Maybe it’s like you said. Maybe there is something out there, some new discovery that will make us feel like even smaller pieces of shit. Something that explains why you still went looking for me, through all of this noise. And why, no matter what, I still want to be here with you. I will always, always want to be here with you.

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2/22/22 22:22

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“Let someone love you the way you are - as flawed as you might be, as unattractive as you sometimes feel, and as unaccomplished as you think you are. To believe that you must hide all the parts of you that are broken, out of fear that someone else is incapable of loving what is less than perfect, is to believe that sunlight is incapable of entering a broken window and illuminating a dark room.”

— Mark Hack (via perfectquote)

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The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012)

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Life is like a camera. Focus on what’s important. Capture the good moments, develop from the negatives, and if things don’t work out, take another shot.