“If people refuse to look at you in a new light and they can only see you for what you were, only see you for the mistakes you’ve made, if they don’t realize that you are not your mistakes, then they have to go.”

—Steve Maraboli
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“I’m not the silly romantic you think. I don’t want the heavens or the shooting stars. I don’t want gemstones or gold. I have those things already. I want…a steady hand. A kind soul. I want to fall asleep, and wake, knowing my heart is safe. I want to love, and be loved.”

—Shana Abé (via fashionfever)

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“Two things define you. Your patience when you have nothing, and your attitude when you have everything.”

—Unknown (via caelestial)

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“My solitude doesn’t depend on the presence or absence of people; on the contrary, I hate who steals my solitude without, in exchange, offering me true company.”

—Friedrich Nietzsche (via fakeville)

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“Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you’ll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.”

—Looking for Alaska (John Green)

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“Well, I think there is a difference between loving the idea of someone and actually loving who they are.”

—Elizabeth Burke

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“She was the kind of girlfriend god gives you young, so you’ll know loss for the rest of your life.”

—Junot Diaz (via chipotlechickenburrito)

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“They told me that to make her fall in love I had to make her laugh. But everytime she laughs I’m the one who falls in love.”

—Tommaso Ferraris (via asaantiago)

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