Yourself more

You don't learn to stop loving them

You learn how to love yourself more.

Do again

Something I learned about people.

If they do it once, they'll do it again.

Abandoning yourself

Abandoning yourself

for a love story that is

being written without your name in it

is one of the worse forms of abuse.

~Pierre Jeanty

(seems like it should say "worst" but says "worse")

Not okay

Stop being okay with things you really are not

okay with. Stop associating being a good

person with how much you're willing to suffer in 

silence. You can be a kind person and still say

"I'm not okay with this." Being kind is not about 

being the human equivalent of a doormat.

~Soul Whispers

A treasure

Some people will break your heart and 

fail to see the love you hold for them.

But that says more about them and

their wounds, and less about you. Your

love is a treasure, and only the right

hands will be able to hold it.

~WritingtoInspire

Disappear

 Truth is, you don't really want to 

disappear. What you really want is to

be found, seen, loved and appreciated

for all that you are and everything that

you still hope to become, and I don't

think that's asking for too much

~Samantha Gabardi, The Heart Speaks

Less about yourself

I learned that people who make you feel less

about yourself hold no decency about them,

once you remove yourself from their presence

you can pull the thorns out of your skin and

start to slowly heal.

~J.M. Preston 

Can't do this

 And she finally gave up,

dropped the fake smile as a

tear ran down her cheek and

she whispered to herself

"I can't do this anymore"

Exactly why

you were the first person

i felt both wildly unsure 

and unwaveringly certain of

that was the scariest part

about falling for you:

the fact that I had no idea

what i was doing.

but at the same time,

i knew exactly why

i had to.

~once in a lifetime

Too good

Imagine thinking this whole time that

you weren't good enough but in reality

you were actually too good.

~Girl and Her Magic

Cannot be stopped

 i wish you love.

but i also wish 

for you a freedom

in that love.

because it's not

every day that you 

find that.

where you are heard

not to be judged,

but understood.

where you are loved

not for what you 

give, but because it

cannot be stopped.

~JmStorm

Not weak

You're not weak and 

with a heart like that,

you deserve the world.

~r.m. drake

Refused

 "she chose herself because you refused to."  ~r.h. Sin

Your madness

Beautiful girl,

you don't even realize

that some people

look at your madness

and see nothing

but brilliance and grace.

~Stephanie Bennett-Henry

Accept it

 You can't control how they treat you, but you can control if you accept it.  ~Charles Orlando

Once upon a time

 Once upon a time,

I loved you.

It's the only story

I ever wanted to tell.

~Kristina Mahr

Giant

GIANT

You were so giant in this life

my love.

As though you were the galaxy

and everyone else the stars.

You were so full

of life

in this life

that in death

you are the same

giant.

And the hole you have left

is giant too.

You were so giant in this life

that my grief for you

must be giant also

that's the science you see

And really

there is little to be done

about that.

For love breeds grief,

grief breeds love

and a giant hole

does not easily fill.

~Donna Ashworth

CEO

 Accept people as they are, but place them

where they belong.

You are the CEO of your life. Hire, fire

and promote accordingly.

Two types

I only ever thought

There were two types of loves

The kind you'd kill for

And the kind you'd die for.

But you, my darling,

You were the kind of love

I would live for.

Lot better

the truth is - 

you are doing a lot

better than you think.

you have come a lot

farther than you realize.

and the people who love

you are thankful you are

part of their life.

just a reminder -

you are doing great.

~topher kearby

Patience

It was patience she ran out of

not love.

~angel lindberg vazquez

Who they are

There's a difference between

seeing the good in others and not 

being honest with yourself about

who they really are.

~Yasmine Cheyenne

Debate

Your

worth

is not

up for

debate.

Not even

by you.

You are

worthy

as you are.

For real.

Always

have been

and always

will be.

~Scott Stable, Enough As You Are

Always

Always give without

remembering and

always receive without

forgetting.

~Brian Tracey 

A mess

What a mess

I have made

with nothing

but an idea

that I 

am not enough.

~Chloe Frayne

Loving harder

 You can't change 

things by loving them

harder.

Knew sooner

 Relationship advice I

wish I knew sooner

There's no point of fighting for someone

who has proved to be incapable of loving you

the correct way, who refuses to make an

effort for you, an effort that you deserve.

Love is so simple and yet we choose to

complicate it with our attachments to the

people who don't deserve our time, attention

or energy. If they loved you, they'd be there.

If they cared about you, they'd show up.

This is your sign to move on. There are SO

many possible friends and potential lovers

out there who would be honoured to have

someone as incredible as YOU in their lives.

Something too

 You may fear losing people.

But you need to realize,

losing you

is something too.

~Amanda Blair

The beginning

There will come a time when

you'll choose yourself. And 

this will be the beginning.

~J. Mike Fields

Act like it

 If you want her in your life, act like it.

Inaction

The person who watches you drown is no

different than the person who holds your

head beneath the water.

Inaction can be just as evil as action.

 

When

W H E N

When did you stop caring? he asked.

When did you start noticing? she replied.

~Lang Leav

Decades

 There are decades when nothing happens. There are weeks where decades happen.  ~Indeed

All the efforts

 Stop being the one who always makes efforts. Relax and let the ship sink.

Paid attention

From Higher Dimensions

I paid attention when I didn't get the invite.

I paid attention when I didn't get a thank you.

I paid attention when I didn't get the apology.

I paid attention when a room would go silent when I 

entered.

I paid attention when folks believed lies about me and

never asked me.

I paid attention when they didn't show up for me.

I paid attention when my important life events didn't even

get a congratulatory phone call or text.

I paid attention to the disrespect and yes I took it personal.

So now I rarely leave my bubble, my space and I choose my 

peace every time.

If I make it to an event I'm invited to, consider it a blessing.

I raised the bar for who has the pleasure to be around MY

SPIRIT.

Because I have a good one.

Done fighting spirits that were created to take me off course...

~Akila Dilshan

Disrespect themselves

 Others do not disrespect you

because you are not worth respect,

They disrespect you because they

disrespect themselves

It is personal to them

Not you!

~The Orisha Shaman~

On you

Learn to say; that's on you.

Your behavior is on you

The way you move is on you

The choices you make are all on you

The way you live it's all on you

Stop absorbing the pain of other people,

recognize what belongs to you and

what doesn't

Loudly

Love me

loudly

or

not at all;

for I am

heart of hearing.

~Kirk Diedrich

Turning your pain

 i try

to live

my best life

so

when we reunite in heaven,

you say,

thank you

for turning your pain

into something

beautiful

for 

me

~Grief to Glories Unfolding

Fight for me

I laid down

my sword

long ago.

Love will fight

for me now,

and I 

will remain still.

~SGabardi, The Heart Speaks

More soul

Trust me,

she's more

soul than

skin.

You can see

it in the 

way she bleeds

for the ones

she loves.

~Kayil York

Feeling guilty

 You have to learn to say

"NO" without feeling guilty.

Setting boundaries is healthy.

You need to learn to respect

and take care of yourself.

~Grey Katniss

No response

 no response is a response, and it's a powerful one.

Remember that

Worth telling

 She started to smile and tell me

about something she truly loved,

but she stopped herself mid-way.

And I knew somewhere out there,

someone had convinced her that

the stories inside her weren't

worth telling.

Self-reflection

 I don't wish you misfortune, that would

be too easy. I wish you self-reflection.

That internal accountability for who you

were to me and everyone around you.

Now that's painful.

Their time

 She's not afraid

of the wait anymore,

for she knows

He will open doors

beautiful and perfect

in their time.

~Morgan Harper Nichols

Pride

 Pride must die in you,

or nothing of heaven can

live in you.

~Andrew Murray

No idea

 You have no idea how good life is about to get for you.

Nothing to the joy

The pain of parting is nothing

to the joy of meeting again.

~Charles Dickens

Too good

Posted by Nona

Nothing is too good to be true.

Be blind

From m.life

People treat you exactly the way

they feel about you.

Be blind if you want to.

Decoration

 Exterior beauty,

without the depth of a

kind soul is merely

decoration.

Stop winning

Some of us are headed into a 

season where we won't be able to

stop winning even if we tried.

Allowed to live

 Reminder:

You don't have to explain why you 

want what you want, do what you do,

love what you love, need what you

need. You are allowed to live a life

some people don't understand.

~Laura McKowen

Never random

When it is all

finished, you will

discover it was never

random.

~Elena Collins

To be alone

From Philo Thoughts

The capacity to be alone is the capacity to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it is not. It is an existential truth: only those people who are capable of being alone are capable of love, of sharing, of going into the deepest core of the other person - without possessing the other, without becoming dependent on the other, without reducing the other to a thing, and without becoming addicted to the other. They allow the other absolute freedom, because they know that if the other leaves, they will be as happy as they are now. Their happiness cannot be taken by the other, because it is not given to the other.  ~Osho

Their character

 People do not seem to

realize that their opinion of

the world is also a 

confession of their

character.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Disappoint

 Kevin Gates said, "I'm good love, go disappoint somebody else." I felt that.

Hate

 If you hate a person, than you are defeated by them.  ~Confucius

Personally applied

Someone once asked Billy Graham, "If Christianity is valid, why is there so much evil in the world?" To this, he replied, "With so much soap, why are there so many dirty people in the world? Christianity, like soap, must be personally applied if it is to make a difference in our lives."

The silence

The silence is a reply, babe.

Listen closely. All he does not

say is him saying Everything.

That's all you need to know.

~Stephanie Bennett-Henry

Loyal woman

 A loyal woman is 

one of the greatest

things a man can

have in his life.

But it takes a 

real man

to realize that.

No one

I

am

too 

much of

everything

that no one

is looking for.

~Bethany Patrick, Stutters and Sighs

Chemistry

Do not chase chemistry over character.

Because chemistry won't wake up at 3 am

to console you in your heaviest grief.

Attraction may not choose to love you

on the good days and the bad days.

Sparks stop flying when life becomes

riddled with reality.

~deja rae

Can't

Can't

He says

he can't

keep doing this,

and I ask what,

thinking maybe it's 

waking up early

and maybe it's

going to bed late

and maybe it's

eating pizza every day,

and I ask what

because I don't know,

I don't see,

I have no idea that

the thing

he can't keep doing 

is loving me.

~I Wrote You A Poem

Excellence

 Excellence is never an accident.

It is always the result

of high intention, sincere effort,

and intelligent execution.

~Aristotle

Too loud

Some days,

the world 

is too loud

for a 

quiet soul.

~J. Rose

Somebody else's

I will never be

somebody else's.

I will always be

either entirely yours

or completely my own.

There is nothing else

that I will ever find

beyond you and I.

~S.L. Gray

Unreachable

Become unreachable to those

that had access and abused it.

~Soulology

Love like that

 And still

after all this time,

The sun never says to

the earth, "You owe me."

Look what happens with 

A love like that,

It lights up the whole sky.

~Hafiz

The whole time

 The whole time you thought you weren't good enough, you were overqualified.

Made of

You don't know what you're made of until

you're forced to let go of someone you love.

~r.m. drake

Drowned

we both drowned 

under the waves

of words,

we weren't saying

~ben maxfield 

Repeat

REPEAT AFTER ME:

I'm allowed to do what's best 

for me, even if it upsets people

Little things

Have been seeing this message everywhere lately... (specifically, "Enjoy the little things")

Enjoy the little

things in life,

for one day you'll

look back and 

realize they were

the big things.

~Kurt Vonnegut

Going away

 Death has nothing to do with

going away

The sun sets

The moon sets

But they are not gone

~Rumi

Giving an ocean

i have a 

terrible habit

of giving an ocean

whenever

someone asks

for a single drop.

~louise kaufmann

Fight so hard

you shouldn't 

have to fight

so hard

to be loved.

~r.m. drake

Felt about yourself

i forgive you...

for treating me the way you

felt about yourself.

~butterflies rising

It matters

 Maybe there's something

you're afraid to say,

or someone you're afraid

to love, or somewhere

you're afraid to go.

It's gonna hurt. It's gonna hurt

because it matters.

~John Green

Said and meant

 Between what is said and not meant,

and what is meant and not said,

most of love is lost.

~Kahlil Gibran

A man's purpose

Sometimes a man's

purpose in your life is

to remind you that

you'll be just fine on 

your own.

~Word Porn 

Realize that

Just because

you love them,

doesn't give them 

the right to hurt you.

Protect yourself,

love yourself,

no matter who's 

breaking you apart.

You deserve the world

and I hope

it doesn't take 

a lifetime to realize

that.

Real

IT IS REAL

If it is real

they won't let you go

and if it's meant

to be

they'll follow you

no matter how far

you go.

All of a sudden

 And then all of a sudden

she changed. She came back a

completely different person.

With a new mindset, a new

outlook, a new soul. The girl

that once cared way too much 

about everyone and everything,

no longer cared at all..

~Narcissist's Daughter

Wasted

If I'm wrong about God then I wasted my life.

If you're wrong about God, then you wasted your eternity."

~Lacrae

The bricks

If you gotta tell em to help

carry the bricks, they ain't 

the ones to build with.

Simultaneously

 BOUNDARIES

are the distance

at which I can love

you and me

simultaneously.

~Prentis Hemphill

Absolutely must

 You absolutely must choose yourself this time.    ~Soul in Ink

The wait

 She's not afraid

of the wait anymore,

for she knows

He will open doors

beautiful and perfect

in their time.

~Morgan Harper Nichols

Meant to be

Meant to Be

If they were meant to be in your life, nothing could ever

make them leave. If they weren't, nothing in the world could

make them stay.

~Sea of Strangers

Why

The surest way 

to make sure

someone never

gets over you?

Leave

and never tell them

why.

~Chloe Frayne

Best people

You're entirely bonkers.

But I'll tell you a secret.

All the best people are.

~Lewis Carroll

Grow old

Do not grow old, no matter

how long you live. Never 

cease to stand like curious

children before the great

mystery into which we

were born.

~Albert Einstein

Ultimate good

"Love is not an affectionate

feeling, but a steady wish

for the loved person's

ultimate good as far as it

can be

obtained."

~C.S. Lewis

Detach

 oh boy...

...the way I detach myself from

people is by far the scariest part

about me because I can love you to 

death and never speak to you again.

Their last

To be someone's 

first love -

but oh to be 

their last.

~Lonely Penguin 

Burning bridges

Burning Bridges

I will tell you

that if I decide 

to set this bridge on fire,

it will not be

to prevent you

from crossing after me.

It will only be

to prevent me

from crossing after you.

(Again and again and again)

~Kristina Mahr

Their anger

 "No" might make them angry,

but it will make you free. If no

one has ever told you, your

freedom is more important than

their anger.

~Narcissist's Daughter

One day

 One day you will ask me

which is more important?

My life or yours?

I will say mine and you

will walk away not knowing

that you are my life.

~Khalil Gibran

Treat you

 No matter how good your heart

is, eventually you have to start 

treating people the way they

treat you.

~Narcissist's Daughter

Series of miracles

 The whole world is a series of miracles,

but we're so used to them

we call them ordinary things.

~Hans Christian Andersen

Let

Let July be July,

and let August be August.

And let yourself

just be

even in

the uncertainty.

You don't have to fix everything.

You don't have to solve everything.

And you can still find peace

and grow

in the wild

of changing things.

~MHN

Home to yesterday

Country Roads.

Take me home today.

Not to this one. My first one

where my brothers 

and sisters lay.

Where dad cut the grass

and mum rubbed my head

and my biggest fear

lay under my bed.

Take me home to yesterday.

~Rebekah Crilly

Same empty box

I keep looking in

the same empty box

for love, like

it's a magic trick, like

~abracadabra~

he loves me now.

~Kristina Mahr

Hard

 Getting into a relationship is easy.

Getting married is easy.

It's love that is hard.

~Rahul Kaushik

Spiteful man

 ...and if you gaze deep enough 

into the soul of a spiteful

man, hate or contempt would be

the last thing you would

feel for him, but rather, you

would feel utter pity.

~Daniel Saint

Relationships

 God desires us

to invest our

time, our 

resources and 

our efforts in 

relationships.

My present

Posted by Toby Mac

It's strange

to me how

often I'm

tempted to

trust God

with my 

eternity

but not my

present.

~Ian Simkins

More difficult

 Your path is more difficult

because your calling is higher.

Make it happen. Shock everyone.

Stop fighting

If they are okay

with losing you,

stop fighting.

Your standard

 Let someone meet 

your standard 

instead of you

lowering yours to

meet theirs

all the time.

Know your worth.