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I crave a love so deep, the ocean would be jealous. - Pablo Neruda

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“effective communication requires clear open lines on both ends, no judgment when honesty is trying to find a safe landing spot, ears that welcome vulnerability with open arms, it requires becoming fluent in each others dialect regardless of how uncomfortable the truth may sound.”

— iambrillyant

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““Love isn’t only love, sweetheart. It’s hard work, and trust, and tears, with even a few glimpses of devastation. But at the end of each day, if you can still look at the person at your side and can’t imagine anyone else you’d rather have there, the pain, the heartache and the ups and downs of love are worth it.” - Nicole Williams”

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Poems & Words

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“It is no accident that all democracies have put a high estimate upon education; that schooling has been their first care and enduring charge. Only through education can equality of opportunity be anything more than a phrase.”

— John Dewey, “The Need of an Industrial Education in an Industrial Democracy”, The Middle Works, vol 10

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“Hiding your hurt only intensifies it. Problems grow in the dark and only become bigger and bigger, but when exposed to the light of truth, they shrink. You are only as sick as your secrets. So take off your mask, stop pretending you’re perfect and walk into freedom.”

— Rick Warren

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“Nothing determines me from outside, not because nothing acts upon me, but, on the contrary, because I am from the start outside myself and open to the world.”

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenology of Perception

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We look at people who leave relationships like they’re monsters like how could you just decide you don’t want someone anymore when they treat you well and maybe they gave up a job for you or moved, whatever. But really we’re allowed at any time to decide ‘I don’t want to do this anymore’ no matter what someone has done for us. Why should I have to stay unhappy just because you treat me well? And okay, maybe I have no reason to be unhappy in the first place if you treat me so well, but that’s a separate issue. Because what it comes down to is it doesn’t matter why I feel this way, just that I do. And that’s allowed. And it doesn’t matter how great you are or what you’re willing to do for me because sometimes it’s just not going to be the right path for me no matter how smooth you pave it.

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“In the midst of all the chaos and mayhem, the only person I could think about was you.”

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“I wish someone had warned me when I was younger, now I stay up all night and weep; the ghosts of everything you have loved and lost come back to haunt you in your sleep.”

— Nikita Gill, Haunted

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“My happiest times were outside and alone, inventing stories of every kind, and as far from my real circumstances as possible. I became my own ladder and trapdoor to other worlds. I was my own disguise. I was never bored except in the company of others.”

— Jeanette Winterson, from “Frankissstein,” originally published c. Mary 2019

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“your peace is your peace. may it be the most sacred thing that you own. learn to develop it in yourself. learn to create it to the point where it celebrates your way of living in harmony with yourself. for the calmer you become, the more flowing you will be. your peace is your peace. have a good cry. make your room dark. have a moment of silence as you lay your head down your pillow. breathe and be uninterruptedly alone. sometimes the chaos becomes too much for your senses. find strength in your solitude. you deserve to feel aligned like all the stars in the universe are beginning to shine within you.”

— juansen dizon, Calm is a superpower �� 

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“I may never be happy, but tonight I am content. Nothing more than an empty house, the warm hazy weariness from a day spent setting strawberry runners in the sun, a glass of cool sweet milk, and a shallow dish of blueberries bathed in cream. When one is so tired at the end of a day one must sleep, and at the next dawn there are more strawberry runners to set, and so one goes on living, near the earth. At times like this I’d call myself a fool to ask for more…” - Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath (via sylviaplathquotes)

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One of the things I have come to realize during the previous stage of my life, the “pre-enlightenment” stage, as I like to call it, is that I don’t need to have a someone in my life. Texts and calls and ‘I miss you’s’ are great but realizing the difference between wanting them and needing them changed a lot. As cliche as this sounds, the only person you need is you. The only love, care, attention you need is yours. Pat your own back. Wipe your own tears. Depend only on Allah, and I promise that will save you from a whole lot of heartbreak.