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“When I left, I wanted you to chase after me.”

— The Other Side of the Door, Taylor Swift

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Trista Mateer, from "Aphrodite Made Me Do It," originally published in 2024

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If you sit down at night and pay attention to the sky, you can listen to the stars listening to you. It’s a silent melody that won’t reach your ears but will reach your heart and it will make you understand that you are not alone.

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Madness is intelligence in a sane world.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky; Letter to his brother 9th August 1838

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— nipuna (via @nipsyyy)

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“You deserve a relationship that enables you to sleep peacefully at night.”

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"And I was running far away // Would I run off the world someday?"

Runaway - Aurora

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“If the highest aim of a captain was to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.”

— Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica

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"Do what you can while you can

You'd be lying if you said it wasn't scary

Of course it's scary

But you push on

And you keep creating

Until you're empty

Until you can die knowing

You gave everything you could

And you live with no regrets

And then you can smile

And then you are at peace."

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“Don’t you dare give up. Not tonight, not tomorrow, not ever.”

— Unknown

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“You have this one life. How do you wanna spend it? Apologizing? Regretting? Questioning? Hating yourself? Dieting? Running after people who don’t see you? Be brave. Believe in yourself. Do what feels good. Take risks. You have this one life. Make yourself proud.”

— Beardsley Jones

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“People change and forget to tell each other.”

— Lillian Hellman

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“If you are ever feeling lonely look towards the moon, someone somewhere is looking at it too.”

— thehopefulquotes

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“Don’t mistake silence for weakness. Smart people don’t plan big moves out loud.”

— Unknown

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Mary Oliver, from a poem titled "Work," featured in The Southern Review (edited)

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“and at some point I thought to myself: ‘no person deserves this,’ and I realized that includes even me.”

— Unknown