joeltaylorredden

[joeltaylorredden]

“If you don’t fight for what you want, don’t cry for what you lost.”

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[joeltaylorredden]

““Some people don’t understand the promises they’re making when they make them,” I said. “Right, of course. But you keep the promise anyway. That’s what love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway.””

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[joeltaylorredden]

“In my memory, it doesn’t end. We just stay there, looking at each other, forever.”

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[joeltaylorredden]

“I can write the saddest poem of all tonight. I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.”

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[joeltaylorredden]

“The pain that you’ve been feeling, can’t compare to the joy that’s coming.”

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[joeltaylorredden]

“So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they’re busy doing things they think are important. This is because they’re chasing the wrong things. The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.”

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[joeltaylorredden]

“When you write a book, you spend day after day scanning and identifying the trees. When you’re done, you have to step back and look at the forest.”

— Stephen King

[joeltaylorredden]

“If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets.”

— Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

[joeltaylorredden]

“I think part of the reason why we hold on to something so tightly is we fear something great won’t happen twice.”

— Unknown

[joeltaylorredden]

“Don’t give them a taste of their own medicine. They already know what it tastes like. Give them a taste of your own medicine. If they lied, let your medicine be honesty. If they played with your emotions, let your medicine be maturity. Don’t be afraid to be yourself, even if it means removing yourself from lives that you want to be in. You are, no doubt, worthy of being valued for who you are. So be who you are.”

— Najwa Zebian

[joeltaylorredden]

I loved you so much it almost killed me

[joeltaylorredden]

Thought that I was fine,

Using anything I could as an easy distraction

But I miss you everyday

[joeltaylorredden]

“At the end of the day people won’t remember what you said or did, they will remember how you made them feel.”

— Maya Angelou

[joeltaylorredden]

“Your healing is about you. It doesn’t need a stamp of approval. Don’t worry about how long it takes or how ugly it might seem. It is about you, and your wellbeing.”

— Unknown

[joeltaylorredden]

“She is something new, something hopeful. Like spring to my deep winter.”

— Pierce Brown

[joeltaylorredden]

“Your relationship with yourself sets the tone for every other relationship you have.”

— Robert Holden

[joeltaylorredden]

“I stopped looking for the light. Decided to become it instead.”

— Francheska, of ‘Hey Fran Hey’