Slight chance

If there's even a slight chance at

getting something that will make

you happy, risk it. Life's too short,

and happiness it too rare.

~A.R. Lucas

A house

Your mind is a house.

You can decorate it or neglect it.

Fill it with beautiful art, inspiring books, and cozy furniture.

Or let it accumulate dust, clutter, and mold.

You decide.

~Scott D. Clary 

Angry

 If I'm angry, there is still hope.

As long as there are tears, words, and concern - there is care.

But once I become silent,

my efforts become nonexistent

and so does your place in my life.

~Morgan Richard Olivier

The point

I think so often, what people

misunderstand about boundaries

is that the point of setting them

is not to change other peoples

behavior or convince them to

value different things - it's to

advocate for yourself, regardless

of how they respond.

~J. Daniell Koepke

Love into

 As

it turns

out, you

cannot love

someone into

loving you

back.

~KM

Madly

 I 

still haven't 

figured out how

to sit across from you,

and not be madly in love

with everything

you do.

~William C. Hannan

Terrifies most

what terrifies

me most

is not being able

to make sense

of my vulnerability.

my softness

is my reward,

but the world is cruel

and constantly

makes me question it.

~Christopher Poindexter

Small world

i'm not sure

if we were meant

to find each other

but we did.

endless possibilities

in the paths

we choose

and take mistakenly

but

there you were.

197 million square miles

of earth

and we 

connected.

the probability,

the odds,

the chances,

still had me 

find you.

maybe

it really is

a small world

after all.

~P.T. Berkey

Too

 From Ravenous Butterflies

Don't make yourself small.

Not for anyone.

If someone tells you

you're too much...

too loud, too sensitive,

too fierce, too caring,

too intellectual, too optimistic,

too realistic, too logical, too emotional...

just smile and move on, my friend.

Clearly, they aren't enough for you.

~Laura Daub

Letting go

 There is peace in letting go

of how you feel it should be 

and simply embracing what it is.

~Morgan Richard Olivier

Beauty and terror

It is both

beauty and terror

isn't it?

This thing we 

call love.

Filled with 

an undeniable glory,

and if lost,

a burden that holds

the weight of 

the world.

When it lasts,

when it endures,

it is the most

beautiful thing

that we have.

It is what

we all deep down

desire.

A love that grows

into the stars.

~Christopher Poindexter

The fairytale

anyone who tells you the fairytale

isn't real just hasn't found it yet,

or they settled for less.

but that's their story, not yours.

let yourself believe in your fairytale.

~butterflies rising

Hundreds

if you don't want to have

your photos taken because

you think you aren't pretty

enough,

just remember...

your face is a combination

of hundreds of people who

were in love throughout

time.

you are beautiful.

Magic

I don't 

need magic,

I need your 

arms around me

at 3:29 am when

the dark 

is too much, I

need you to be real

when nothing

else is.

~a.r.asher

This part

Yes,

you will rise from the ashes,

but the burning comes first.

For this part,

darling,

you must be brave.

~Kalen Dion

Breathe in

breathe in.

say it one more time.

with me:

I need to only worry

about things I can control.

~kelly riddle

Later

 "Later" becomes "too late."

-Talk to you later.

-I'll call you later.

-See you later.

-We'll walk later.

-I'll tell you later.

We leave everything for later, but forget that "later" does not belong to us.

Later, our loved ones are no longer with us.

Later, we don't hear them and we don't see them.

Later, they are just memories.

Later, the day becomes night, the force becomes helpless,

the smile becomes a grimace, and life becomes death.

"Later" becomes "too late."

~Unknown

(Little depressing but true...)

All this chemistry

we're here

with all this chemistry

in our veins,

so let's stay up

and talk

about heaven, and earth,

and of your dreams,

and my dreams...

and maybe you could come closer and

show me love-colored things

~late night conversations

From wild spirit, soft heart, butterflies rising

Align

 HUSTLE (crossed out)

ALIGN

Destroy the idea that you have to be

constantly working or grinding in order

to be successful. Embrace the concept

that rest, recovery, and reflection are

essential parts of the progress toward a 

successful and ultimately happy life.

Your energy

sweet girl,

it wasn't that you weren't enough,

it's your energy...it asks

others to rise up, and not everyone

is willing to go where they

would grow

~butterflies rising

Be one

There are

certain places

she can go where

she doesn't have 

to be perfect.

Be one of them

and she'll keep 

coming back.

~AstonGardner

The innocent

The trust of the 

innocent is the liar's

most useful tool.

~Stephen King

Some hellos

some hellos are special.

extraordinary, they are

soothing and in some not

fully understood way, they

make the world feel right.

like an overdue love letter

lost in the mail, finally

returned.

~JmStorm

At last

 AT LAST

Love looks pretty on you. It makes you soft, tender, proud.

Makes you sit up and take notice. Gives you a home to set

down your things.

What a blessing it is, to have dancing and music and poetry.

What a gift it is, to look at someone and say,

I'm so happy to have found you - at last, at last, at long, long

last - you're here.

~Lang Leav

End of my road

You are the end of

my road. After a 

lifetime of missed

exits and wrong

turns, you feel

like I'm finally 

home. One journey

ends, and another

begins with you.

~RH

Explain

 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

Potential

It's my love for potential

that causes me pain.

The desire to push people

to become better with time

always has a way of making

me waste my own.

~Morgan Richard Olivier

Love Him

 When obedience to God

contradicts what I think will

give me pleasure, let me ask

myself if I love Him.

~Elisabeth Elliot

Sunshine

I cannot guarantee 

You sunshine,

but I can promise

to stand beside You,

no matter how hard

it rains...

~Matthew Spenser

Question mark

You question 

if they love you.

You questions 

if you're really 

in love.

You question...

But I've lived 

enough years

to know what love

is not supposed

to feel like. 

Love shouldn't 

feel like a 

question mark.

~Alfa

Deeper

 The deeper the intimacy you experience, the

more your shadow will feel threatened and

try to convince you to run away, as your

nervous system doesn't know how to

respond to safety and stability.

~Lorin Krenn

Perfectly luxurious

 Definitely feel this way sometimes...

I don't care what anyone

says, living alone as a

woman is one of the most

perfectly luxurious

experiences of my life.

~Heather O'Neill

Free

What if I don't need you

to belong to me?

What if you

just continue to belong

to you,

and spend a lot of

your time 

with me?

~Free~

~J. Warren Welch

Your circle

 Your circle should

want you to win.

Your circle should 

clap the loudest when

you have good news.

If they don't, get a

new circle.

Can't save

 You can't save someone

Who doesn't want to be saved,

Especially if it comes at the cost

Of losing yourself.

You're worth more than being drowned

By the storms of someone else's

Bad decisions.

~Christie L. Starkweather

Wondering

You're worthy of clarity and certainty,

not left wondering about your place

in someone's life.

~R.M. Drake

Chose not to

You don't get to say

you miss me

if you could have had me

this whole time

but chose not to.

~chloe frayne

Deep heart

I'm not depressed. I'm not broken. Or empty.

I'm exhausted. Emotionally. Spiritually.

Physically. I just need someone to hold me.

Someone real. Someone who knows what it's 

like to have a deep heart.

~r.m. drake

First time

 When someone 

shows you who they

are, believe them the

first time.

~Maya Angelou

Messy

Love is messy.

Even the healthiest,

deepest,

truest love,

is just two messy people

trying to interact with each other

in multiple complicated ways.

If you can't handle messy,

you're not ready for love.

~Love is messy~

~J. Warren Welch

Her looks

 Forget her looks.

How about her insane

work ethic, her unstoppable

ambition, her burning passion,

and her ridiculously dope

soul.

~I Heart Intelligence

Feel like

 WHAT DOES LOVE FEEL LIKE?

One day you will meet someone

who will see the universe 

that was knitted into your bones,

and the embers of galaxies glow to life in your eyes.

And you will finally know

what love is supposed to feel like.

~Nikita Gill

belong

belong

when something is for you

it will not run or hide or

avoid being yours.

~Neon Soul

Probably harming

 From Flying Free

There is a difference between helping

someone who is disabled, incapable, or

otherwise infirm versus helping someone

who is resisting growing up and taking care 

of what every adult (or child, for that

matter) has to be responsible for: herself 

or himself. When you find yourself in any

way paying for someone else's

responsibilities, not only are you stuck with

a delayed ending, but you are probably

harming that person.

~Henry Cloud

No longer

 I have learned to no longer tiptoe around

sensitive topics, nor walk on eggshells or cater to

egos. I do not step lightly, but boldly, taking up

space, using my voice, and proudly expressing

who I am and how I feel. I refuse to make myself

smaller to make others more comfortable.

Life is too short to spend it on a leash.

~JD Lynn

Not unchristian

 It is not unchristian to

require people to treat

you in healthy ways.

~Lysa TerKeurst

One day

Every person needs to take one day away. A day in which one consciously separates the past from the future. Jobs, family, employers, and friends can exist one day without any of us, and if our egos permit us to confess, they could exist eternally in our absence. Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for. Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will not withdraw from us.  ~Maya Angelou

Offer you

"I offer you my hand,

my heart, and a share

in all of my possessions.

I ask you to  pass through

life at my side --

to be my second self,

and best earthly companion."

~Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre

Let them

LET THEM

Let them argue

let them fight

let them think

they are right

let them gossip

let them rage

let them build

themselves a cage

let them judge

let them talk

let them walk

the way they walk

let them laugh

behind your back

they cannot push you

from your track

let them steal

each other's joy

let them silence

virtue's voice

let them wrestle

for the throne

let them pick flesh

from their bones

but of all

you let them do

do not let them

alter you

keep your focus

on the sky

and all the beauty

you pass by

stay within

your well-built walls

and answer only

worthy calls

let them lie

if they must

it's yourself

you need to trust.

By Donna Ashworth

Burning home

Posted on Flying Free

You are angry and anxious

because you never agreed

to live in a burning home

while the people who should care

pretend the fire doesn't exist.

Distress

is a valid emotional response

to injustice.

~Nikita Gill

Inspector

Once upon a time,

persuasive words

would give her goosebumps,

and sweet nothings would satisfy her

cravings.

The keys to her heart belonged to thieves.

But now,

she has grown to listen with her eyes,

to only trust actions,

and to study behaviors.

She has allowed time to be the inspector,

to see what it will reveal.

Prize

The Prize

We are not a love story, we are

a war that I've been waging.

I'm winning now.

I just didn't expect the prize

to be peace

instead of 

you.

~Kristina Mahr

Beautiful one day

 I believe everything will

be beautiful one day. I

even believe it is all

beautiful now and one day

I'll see that the beauty

was with me. always.

That the beauty was in

me always, too. And

I will laugh, because I

didn't need to doubt 

a thing.

~S.C. Lourie

No words

I read once that the 

ancient Egyptians had

fifty words for sand

& the Eskimos had a 

hundred words for snow.

I wish I had a thousand 

words for love, but all

that comes to mind is

the way you move against

me while you sleep

& there are no words 

for that.

A thousand

 do not

lose hope,

please believe

that there are

a thousand

beautiful things

waiting for you.

sunshine 

comes to all

who feel rain.

~r.m. drake

Tragic game

 You keep

proving me

right

in a tragic

game in which

I so 

desperately

want to be 

wrong at,

just this once.

~Samantha, Soul Spilled Sentiments

Same love

 You deserve to feel the same love you give.

~Jacqueline Whitney

Ways

You hurt me in ways you will never know.

But from where I stand now

there is no heaviness in my heart

for the loss of you,

because I've lost nothing.

~Omar Hachem

Finally free

Finally free,

But not because of any apology.

No.

The heartbreak didn't cut you deep enough

for you to say sorry to me.

But it's ok.

My heart bled enough for the two of us.

You never really felt it because

I couldn't get beneath your skin.

Even though I tried and tried,

you never would let me in.

And that's ok too,

because today

I'm forgiving myself.

For loving you.

Becoming free

body, mind, and soul...

Broken, but healing.

Wholeheartedly.

~Samantha, Soul Speed Sentiments

Pleasing others

If you're more worried about

pleasing others than about

caring for yourself, it might

mean that there is trauma in

your body telling you that

you are only safe when other

people are pleased with you.

Perhaps it's time to heal

that trauma so you can learn

to let people down while you

honor your own needs.

~Heather Plett

Feel stupid

Don't ever feel stupid for loving someone

who turned out to be everything they 

promised they would never be. But be proud

that you still believe in the goodness of people.

because that is rare. Don't let it harden you.

Learn the lesson, but keep that soft heart.

~Stephanie Bennett-Henry

Admire most

The thing I admire most

about you

is no matter how hard,

or how much the world

has tried to

beat you,

break you,

destroy you,

and throw you to the wolves

you are still here,

turning all your pain

all your suffering

into armour,

into determination,

into weapons

and earning the respect

of that same pack of wolves

that were meant to rip you

limb from limb.

~Laddi Mae

Worth more

When i finally 

walked away

it wasn't to 

show YOU

anything.

I was showing

MYSELF that

i was worth

more.

~Alfa

Doesn't deserve

let it go, my dear

your heart doesn't deserve 

all this pain.

M

Be me

 I stepped away from it all, from life, from

everything. Because I reached the point where I

was not taking care of my heart, and it had been

too long since I gave my soul a chance to breathe

from the chaos. I wasn't going away forever; I just

needed some time to finally be me again.

~Kayil York

Truth is

the truth is, she didn't

need to be saved; she just

needed to feel loved and

know that someone out there

craved her attention.

~r.m. drake

Beautiful heart

 A beautiful heart

will bring things into your

life that all the money in 

the world couldn't get you.

~NotSalmon.com

Maybe

maybe love isn't what we've been told, maybe it's

not all romance or attraction. maybe love is a 

friend, someone who understands you. someone

who'll be there for you...even at your worst.

~r.m. drake

Little girl

i fought

for the little girl

who i was,

and for who she

wanted me to be.

and i know

she would applaud me

for who i have become.

~Happier

Guy version

 A lady told me one time, "One day

you'll just be living your life and you'll

meet someone who is like the guy

version of yourself; that's how you'll 

know."  ~Unknown

Wasn't ready

He wasn't ready to meet me

where I was, so I met him

where he was, and that's

the moment I started

destroying myself and

then called it love.

~Trudi Jane

Breakups

Breakups can be painful, no doubt. But

when you separate from someone who

didn't value or respect you, it's actually a

good thing. Instead of seeing it as a loss,

think of it as gaining the chance for a

healthier, happier future without that

toxicity in your life.

~R.M. Drake

Un

 Wherever you're unappreciated, you

should be unavailable as well.

~Unknown

For what

I love you not only for what you are,

but for what I am when I am with you.

I love you not only for what

you have made of yourself,

but for what you are making of me.

I love you for the part of me

that you bring out.

~Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Hardest truths

Some of the hardest truths

you will find are that

what you prioritize

will not always prioritize you

and

what you want

will not always want you

and

what you love

will not always love you

and

you have to decide

what you'll do with this.

~Kristina Mahr

Falling out

I am falling 

out of love

with you, I am.

It just takes

some time

to drain 

an ocean.

~Kristina Mahr

Some days

  Please read the caption for (?)

"On some days, I will be unlovable.

But even on those days,

don't unlove me. Just stay. Just wait."

~Rahul Kaushik

Never question

 by L.E. Bowman

I want

to never have to question

your affection.

I want

to be so sure of

your love

that my anxieties

starve

and 

die.

~Fill my head with flowers not fear

The fires

 fires.

and if you have ever been abandoned.

be a constant. if you have ever been

wrapped up in a night so dark, you

could not find you way back home.

be light. if you have ever fallen

apart into a thousand, fractured

pieces and wondered where on earth

everyone has gone. be present. if you

have ever felt unworthy. unbeautiful.

unseen. unknown. unheard. be love.

I tell you the truth. some of the most

precious things we learn, are from

the fires that we've endured.

~ullie-kaye

Madly inward

One thing they

don't tell you 

is how grief

will turn you

madly inward.

That it will

make you deal

not only with

the sudden rush

of pain,

but so too

what lived 

beneath the bone

before.

It takes a 

hellish strength.

~Christopher Poindexter

(I would change the word "hellish" to "heavenly")

Your empathy

 a gentle reminder~

Do not let your empathy for

others stop you from

maintaining the boundaries that

you set to protect yourself.

~Michell C. Clark

Odd

 I'm sure I've posted this before...

fall in love

with a weird one,

someone not quite

right in the head.

life is far more 

interesting when

love is odd.

~topher kearby

Completely done

 You will know that you 

are completely done with 

something when you give it up

and you feel freedom

instead of loss.

~Emily Maroutain

Not used

When you're not used to being confident,

Confidence feels like arrogance.

When you're used to being passive,

Assertiveness feels like aggression.

When you're not used to getting your needs met,

Prioritizing yourself feels selfish.

Your comfort zone is not a good benchmark.

~Dr. Vassilia Binensztok