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Flowers are temporary, so is pain.

Bloom in the elegance of life knowing next time will be the same.

-Future you is blooming.

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The new mistakes teach you why the old ones went wrong.

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If I had known that was the last time, I would have hugged you that night a little bit tighter.

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You are the tape holding them together after they just ripped you off.

You thought you could stick it all back together when you were the one torn apart in the first place.

-Hold together your own love, it's much more important

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Anything that feels forced or harder than it should be or causes you pain and distress is not meant for you.

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This is me knowing that we’re going to grow old. That your life is going to be huge and important and chockfull of love but that it’s all going to transpire without me.

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I didn’t properly deal with the pain and it followed me like a piece of toilet paper stuck to the bottom of a shoe. I always had a feeling of not being good enough, a fear that the guy wouldn’t want me the way I wanted him.

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When someone doesn’t want you, one day you will be thankful for their honesty and decision because they have let you go on to find yourself and the happiness you deserve.

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This is me knowing that I have to let you go. That no matter how much I love you or how hard we work at this or how badly we both want each other to be happy, we are never going to be the right partners for each other.

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Brokenness is a thing you feel, but it doesn’t have to be your identity.

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Learn the most from the ones we hate the most.

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I don’t know what hurts more my heart or my brain?

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Being alone and feeling lonely are two different things.

It’s moments like this when you’re in complete solitude when you realize how lonely you really are

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It’s like I’m sitting in a crowd of people on the bleachers, but I still feel like there’s no one there.

-Empty

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It must suck that life is so painful to the ones
that try to enjoy it.

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Your father, the first man to disappoint you, the first man to let you down, the first man to cause you to lower your expectations.

He loved you, yes, but I guess not enough to protect you.

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You deserve so much more than what you’ve been given you owe it to yourself to give yourself the love that you’ve misplaced in others.

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The first to abandon your heart is also the one who promised they’d never walk away from you.

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It’s not that you don’t care or that you don’t have a heart.

You’re just good at pretending that it doesn’t matter even when it’s all you ever think about.

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You are worthy of your love.
You are worthy of your forgiveness.
You are worthy of your kindness.
Start choosing yourself.

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It’s hard, you know training your lips to smile while your heart is falling apart

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It may not feel like it. But you are becoming a stronger version of who you’ve been. I know it gets difficult, believing in this idea that you are more than your brokenness.

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I don’t think the pain ever leaves, it lives and lives until you find the courage to recycle it into strength.

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Sometimes I worry about you, the stranger reading these words in this book. The stranger, fighting a war by yourself. It’s not easy being you, but you do it to the best of your abilities. It’s not easy being you, and yet you survive nights like this. You inspire me so much, despite being a stranger. You inspire these words as you continue to fight for the love you deserve. I know it feels like moving on is impossible, and sometimes you don’t even know where to start, but I hope you know that there is a power that lives within you. A power that no one can destroy. A power that can be used to set yourself free. Sometimes I worry about you, but then I remember how strong you are. I believe in you, and please believe in yourself.

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Turns out loving me is not hard, but leaving me is easy.

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Can I really blame you for leaving if I’m the one who let go?

Can I really blame you for leaving if I never held on in the first place?

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We don’t talk about friendship breakups enough
They’re less concrete
Less definite
Less written in ink

Sometimes you just drift away
There’s no fight
No closure
No real ending

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Fall in love with life itself. It has so much to offer. It may put you through hell and back but you are here, standing on this earth, breathing in this air, and there is no greater gift.

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The monsters don’t live in my closet or under my bed. They are the collection of thoughts inside my head.

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You are the sand that doesn’t stick when I am dry and sad.

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How do you draw boundaries when your inner child just wants closeness?

How do you cut off someone who hurts you when you just want to love her?

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To my inner child—
I am sorry you never learned how the words 'I love you' were supposed to feel.

I am sorry you were ignored.

I am sorry you were never told.

You are enough.

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If you keep trying to fix other people, it’s you that’s broken.

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You watered the flowers in my soul. You helped me grow into the person I am today.

I understand why you left. You came to teach me how to tend my own garden rather than helplessly wait for someone else to do so.

So although I wish you would have stayed, I am thankful that you didn’t.

Only in your absence did I learn I can survive on my own just fine.

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Do not apologize for things you shouldn’t be sorry for.

If someone demands those words and then walks out the door when you fail to deliver, let them.

They no longer have a place in your life.

They do not deserve you.

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We are all infected with false verifications of beauty. It eats away at our hearts until the mirror is shattered and we soon forget who we are.

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How terribly tragic is it that someone’s heart can be so shattered that they no longer even find the beauty in existing. That they rather just endure the split second pain of a bullet wound to release a lifetime of aching in their soul.

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I tried to find my father in different forms, but eventually I realized no man could make up for what he missed.

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Telling her that she’s beautiful while destroying her confidence is abuse.

Telling her you love her while acting as if you hate her is abuse.

Filling her up with false hope with no intention of changing or doing better is abuse.

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If you have a body that wants to be seen, don’t you dare let anyone tell you to cover it up.

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Remember, you are like the moon, you can choose how, where and when you reveal yourself and just like the full moon you can release you can let go and make room for something new.

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If you look into a mirror and don’t like what you see, you don’t change your appearance.

You change your mindset.

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Whatever troubles you from your past, let it go.

If you do not like the story that has unfolded over the years then close the book, grab a pen, and write yourself a new one.

The past only controls you if you let it.

Do not let it.
Only let it go.

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Luckily, over time, it will get better. You might never fully forget, but your pain will be relieved and you will eventually stop thinking about them every waking second. You will come to terms with the fact that they are not here with you and life goes on whether you want it to or not. But unfortunately, it doesn’t mean you will stop questioning and hating yourself for all what happened, for everything that could have been. It’s like you were shot but the bullet has never been removed so it keeps aching from the inside.

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The truth is if you reach a point where letting go is the only option, it usually means that this thing or someone already let you go. You are trying to stay in a place where you are not welcome anymore. The mind has a funny of way of tricking us into believing certain things to make it less painful for us, or put it in a way that doesn’t really hurt our pride or break our heart, but we have to look at it the way it is, the way it is being portrayed to us, not the way we want to see it.

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This world would feel incomplete without you

Keep fighting
Keep surviving
Keep living
Please stay