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You think attention is love and that’s why you suffer so deeply.

“You put your arms around me and I’m home.”

— Christina Perri - Arms

“You can’t see yourself. You know what you look like because of mirrors and photographs, but out there in the world, as you move among your fellow human beings, whether strangers or friends or the most intimate beloveds, your own face is invisible to you… We are all aliens to ourselves, and if we have any sense of who we are, it is only because we live inside the eyes of others.”

— Paul Auster, Winter Journal

“Just because I said nothing doesn’t mean I didn’t notice.”

— Unknown

Anne Sexton, from a letter to Joyce Sexton, featured in A Self-Portrait In Letters

“Sometimes giving someone a second chance is like giving them an extra bullet for their gun because they missed you the first time.”

— Unknown

Kay Redfield Jamison, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

Once you stop looking, things find you.

safe in your skin

“How I wish I could hug everyone and tell them that it’s okay. It’s okay to be scared and angry and hurt and selfish. It’s part of being human.”

— Frank Warren

“I am aware that I am less than some people prefer me to be, but most people are unaware that I am so much more than what they see.”

— Douglas Pagels

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