Tag: life

[H]iding how you really feel and trying to make everyone happy doesn’t make you nice, it just makes you a liar....

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe,...

to love life, to love it evenwhen you have no stomach for itand everything you’ve held dearcrumbles like burnt paper in your hands,your throat filled with the silt of it.When grief sits with you, its tropical heatthickening the air, heavy as...

Was it hard?” I ask.Letting go?”Not as hard as holding on to something that wasn’t real....

You couldn’t relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. You had to accept it as a whole–like the world, or the person you loved....

You’ve gotta dance like there’s nobody watching,Love like you’ll never be hurt,Sing like there’s nobody listening,And live like it’s heaven on earth....

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not....

Marilyn Monroe...

William W. Purkey...