True color

 You see a person's true color

when you are no longer

beneficial to their life.

~Bob Marley

Less

 From rupi kaur

i didn't leave because

i stopped loving you

i left because the longer

i stayed the less

i loved myself

Same effort

From love intertwined - celina maeve

my heart

doesn't understand

why you (can't)

(don't)

choose not to 

put in the same effort

as I do

~i don't feel the love

(The words in parentheses were crossed out)

Peace

wrong places.

the only reason

you're unhappy

is because you've been

searching for peace

in chaotic souls.

Easily offended

 The more easily you get offended, the less intelligent you actually are.

Positive

 If you are thinking positive during negative times, you've already won.

Darkest night

Even the darkest night will end

and the sun will rise.

~Victor Hugo

Valued

 Stay where your presence is valued

Better

 by Mark Anthony Poet

You deserve better.

Move on.

They blew it.

You know it.

They know it.

You can't fix

what isn't meant to be.

Move on.

Your heart needs rest.

Self respect

 Your self respect has to be stronger than your feelings.

What you lost

 From 90 Days of No Contact

Day 24

I hope one day

You realize what you lost

Breadcrumbs

By Morgan Pommells

Actual things I have said in therapy lately, as a trauma therapist (pt. 3):

"When you've been starved of love your whole life,

it's easy to mistake breadcrumbs for feasts."

Honest

People who have harmed you

will create false stories

around you, your experiences,

and your character. They are

doing this because in order to

be honest about who you are,

they would have to be honest

about what they've done.

Deeply

 Overthinkers feel everything so deeply that

they hurt themselves more than anyone else.

~Lakhan Nathawat

Speak

some people will

understand you

even when you don't speak.

and some will not

even when you speak

~THE RANDOM STORIES

Unlove

 I read somewhere:

"You keep forgiving someone

until you unlove them."

And I felt that.

Receive

 you deserve to receive the love

you gift to everyone else.

3 rules

I live by 3 simple rules:

Love needs action.

Trust needs proof.

Sorry needs change.

Quiet lion

 A quiet lion is more

dangerous than a

barking dog.

Any longer

Do me a favor,

stay away from me,

if you don't have good intentions.

I don't have it in me

any longer,

to give my love

to those who only abuse it.

~YoungNakedSoul

Fighting for

Normalize letting people go

when it's no longer healthy,

not everything is worth fighting for.

~I Was Never Broken Vol. 2

You can

You're still here, you know;

under all the messy things,

under the stress, the anxiety, the sadness,

you're still you.

Come up for some air;

there are bright skies up here.

You have to pull yourself up;

I know like you feel like you can't,

but you can.

I believe in you,

more than you know.

~Pillow Thoughts

Actions speak

People may not

always tell you how they

feel about you, but their

actions will speak for

themselves.

Pay attention.

Have everything

the day you have everything

i hope you remember

when you had nothing

~rupi kaur

Never lies

I no longer listen to what people say,

I just watch what they do.

Behavior never lies.

~Winston Churchill

Not afraid

Courage doesn't mean

you don't get afraid.

Courage means you 

don't let fear stop you.

Really quiet

I don't get mad anymore, I just get really quiet.

Why keep talking when they are not really hearing you

Reactions

 A narcissist wants

to convince you that your

reactions to their actions

are the problem, when in

fact, without their actions,

there would be no 

reactions.

Attachment

 Attachment is the very

opposite of love. Love says, "I

want you to be happy."

Attachment says, "I want you

to make me happy."

~Tenzin Palmo

Better

 When we love, we always strive to become

better than we are. When we strive to

become better than we are, everything

around us becomes better too.

~Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

You know

 Deep down. You know exactly

where you stand with someone.

Hope blurs the lines a little bit but,

you know.

Played themselves

 They might think they played you. But in reality, they only played themselves out of a decent person.

Best versions

 We all wasted the best versions of ourselves on people who didn't care at all.

Hard step

Trusting God is a hard step to take,

but it's also the only step that leads to anything good.

Red flags

 Red flags aren't always about the other

person. When you start lying to yourself

about who they are so that you don't 

have to face losing them, that's the flag

to pay attention to.

~Julian Turecki

Power of hope

yes,

not everything went 

as planned. in fact

it all fell apart.

terribly.

spectacularly.

no problem.

the pieces are all

still there. i can

put them back together 

in a new way.

that's the power

of hope.

~topher kearby

Flow

but darling

you are a river.

the rocks will

break you.

the valleys will bend you.

but you will never

stop.

because that is what you do.

you flow.

~vinati

Happiest people

 The happiest people

forgive, forget, love, help, care, smile.

The happiest people

are the givers, not the takers.

~Sahiba

Do better

Do the best you can until you know better.

Then when you know better,

do better.

~Maya Angelou

Simple

We make life more complicated than it needs to be,

Jesus makes it simple.

Okay

"I'm not okay." said Bear

"And that's okay." said Rabbit.

Read other way

Laziness kills ambition

Anger kills wisdom

Fear kills dreams

Ego kills growth

Jealousy kills peace

Doubt kills confidence

Now read that right to left.

Never

 Have a heart that never hardens,

and a temper that never tires,

and a touch that never hurts.

~Charles Dickens

Detachment

Some people will notice

your reaction of detachment;

yet, never consider how their actions

led to that decision.

~Morgan Richard Olivier

Not the same

 You replied when you had time.

I replied when I saw your message.

We are not the same.

Quiet

 If I'm arguing, I care. If I'm quiet, I'm done.

Unconditional

 Unconditional love

does not mean

unconditional tolerance.

Unlearn that.

~Thinking Minds

Selling himself

 Many a man thinks he is

buying pleasure, when he is 

really selling himself to it.

~Benjamin Franklin

Fully fighting

 You can be full fighting for

your life & people will only

notice that you're not

showing up for them the way

they want.

Give up

 Sometimes you gotta give up on

people. Not because you don't care

but because they don't

Cruelty

 Cruelty is all of out ignorance. If

you knew what was in store for you,

you wouldn't hurt anybody. Because

whatever you do comes back much

more forceful than you send it

out.

~Willie Nelson

Bleeding heart

No more apologies

for a bleeding 

heart

when the opposite

is no heart

at all.

Danger of losing

our humanity

must be met with

more humanity.

The most

 Be

kind

to unkind people.

They need it the

most.

In between

 Beginnings are usually scary,

and endings are usually sad, but

it's everything in between that

makes it all worth living.

~Bob Marley

Sugar and spice

 SUGAR AND SPICE

(an ode to strong women)

They taught us that we had to look pretty

That we had to be gentle, accepting and nice

Not too bold

Not too contrary

Made of sugar and spice

But when I was soft and gentle

I was so gluttonously devoured

By jackals who seemed to prefer me

Meek

Obliging

Unempowered

So I changed the thematic

And broke every rule in this game

Now I have tea parties with lions

While wolves holler my name

~Nirvashnee Naidu

Flowers of the Earth

Feel loved

 I just heard someone say,

"Just because you love me

doesn't mean I feel loved

by you." WOW.

Contented

He who is not contented with 

what he has would not be

contented with what he would

like to have.

~Socrates

My body

Today I asked my body what she needed,

Which is a big deal

Considering my journey of

Not Really Asking That Much.

I thought she might needs more water.

Or protein.

Or greens.

Or yoga.

Or supplements.

Or movement.

But as I stood in the shower

Reflecting on her stretch marks,

Her roundness where I would like flatness,

Her softness where I would like firmness,

All those conditioned wishes

That form a bundle of

Never-Quite-Right-Ness,

She whispered very gently:

"Could you just love me like this?"

~Hollie Holden

Colorblind

 From dining with the enemy

i was never 

colorblind

to the red flags

i just hoped

i was wrong

With me

From please love me at my worst

i just want to be in love with somebody 

who wants to be in love with me

To ask

 Every woman's 

love language

is not having to ask

Wrong time

And in his still silence,

I realized,

I liked him.

Maybe I even loved him.

But that didn't entitle me

to have him.

my right person, our wrong time

Ignoring

Ignoring your partner's needs and still expecting a happy relationship, 

is like ignoring your plants need water and still expecting a beautiful garden.

Position

If I'm in a position where I can help, I will. Every time.

~Christopher Ferry

My people

I used to tolerate a lot because I didn't want to lose people, but now I realize those aren't my people.

Set boundaries.

Deserve better

Sometimes the person you want

doesn't deserve you, so the

Universe will try to convince you

to love yourself, respect yourself,

to commit to yourself, because you

deserve better, and you are better.

Trust the divine plan. Don't force

yourself to fit in where you don't belong.