“Take care of your loved ones, particularly when they are doing everything in their power to push you away. A broken heart, like a wounded beast, will often lash out at those it is nearest, but that does not mean they don’t need you.”
- Beau Taplin • T h e W o u n d e d B e a s t via
“Don’t waste the rest of your time here worrying about other people—unless it affects the common good. It will keep you from doing anything useful. You’ll be too preoccupied with what so-and-so is doing, and why, and what they’re saying, and what they’re thinking, and what they’re up to, and all the other things that throw you off and keep you from focusing on your own mind.”
- Marcus Aurelius, Meditations (via the-book-diaries)
“I wonder if that’s how darkness wins, by convincing us to trap it inside ourselves, instead of emptying it out”
- Jasmine Warga, My Heart and Other Black Holes
(via the-book-diaries)
“You have to learn to love yourself before you can allow someone else to do it as well. There’s nothing wrong with being single. There’s nothing wrong with being alone. There’s nothing wrong with taking time for yourself to work out who you are before you go out there into the dating world, because how can you offer who you are if you don’t know who you are.”— Daniel Sloss - Jigsaw