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To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket- safe, dark, motionless, airless--it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable.
- C.S. Lewis
To love means to open ourselves to the negative as well as the positive - to grief, sorrow, and disappointment as well as to joy, fulfillment, and an intensity of consciousness we did not know was possible before.
- Rollo May
there, that was what I was trying to tell you, just not half as elegantly.
Sometimes I wonder what right have I to be miserable, what reason is there, when others have it so much worse. When their life as they know it crumbles overnight before their eyes and they have to be strong and they still manage a smile for everyone, manage to carry on.
I have no right to be unhappy, nothing to be discontented or miserable about.
Three quotes today, because the words refuse to flow.
I should be spending my time on better things.
"I don’t know if you’ve ever felt like that. That you want to sleep for a thousand years. Or just not exist. Or just not be aware that you exist. Or something like that. I think wanting that is very morbid, but I want it when I get like this. That’s why I’m trying not to think. I just want it to all stop spinning."
—Perks Of Being A Wallflower