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I was the shyest human ever invented, but I had a lion inside me that wouldn’t shut up.

Ingrid Bergman  (via wordsnquotes)

No matter how many people care about you…if you can’t be open with them about who you truly are, you’re still alone.

Diane Chamberlain, The Silent Sister (via wordsnquotes)

You tried to change didn’t you? closed your mouth more tried to be softer prettier less volatile, less awake but even when sleeping you could feel him travelling away from you in his dreams so what did you want to do, love split his head open? you can’t make homes out of human beings someone should have already told you that and if he wants to leave then let him leave you are terrifying and strange and beautiful something not everyone knows how to love.

Warsan Shire (via wordsnquotes)

I don’t pretend to be wise, but I am observing, and I see a great deal more than you’d imagine. I’m interested in other people’s experiences and inconsistencies, and…I remember and use them for my own benefit.

Louisa May Alcott, Little Women (via wordsnquotes)

It’s not my responsibility to be beautiful. I’m not alive for that purpose. My existence is not about how desirable you find me.

Warsan Shire (via larmoyante)

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.

Osho (via fyp-philosophy)

I don’t think relationships are just physicality. There are ways to show you care about someone, not just using your lips… Or any other body part.

Jenny Han, To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before (via wordsnquotes)

Cold, I was, like snow, like ivory. I thought He will not touch me, but he did.

Carol Ann Duffy, excerpt of Pygmalion’s Bride (via starseas)

I’m almost never serious, and I’m always too serious. Too deep, too shallow. Too sensitive, too cold hearted. I’m like a collection of paradoxes.

Ferdinand de Saussure (via fyp-philosophy)

To some it might’ve seemed callous, the way she boxed up her pain and set it aside, but I knew her well enough now to understand. She had a heart the size of France, and the lucky few whom she loved with it were loved with every square inch—but its size made it dangerous, too. If she let it feel everything, she’d be wrecked. So she had to tame it, shush it, shut it up. Float the worst pains off to an island that was quickly filling with them, where she would go to live one day.

Ransom Riggs, Library of Souls (via wordsnquotes)

True intimacy is more than fooling around with somebody you’re attracted to. I want to share myself with somebody who will press her hands through the surface of my skin, curl herself up inside my soul and say, Here, this is who I am.

Beau Taplin (via wordsnquotes)

When I touch her, my fingers don’t question what she is. My body knows who she is. The strange thing about strangers is that they are unknown and known. There is a pattern to her, a shape I understand, a private geometry that numbers mine. She is a maze where I got lost years ago, and now find the way out. She is the missing map. She is the place that I am. She is a stranger. She is the strange that I am beginning to love.

Jeanette Winterson, The Stone Gods (via podencos)

Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely.

Mortimer Adler (via fyp-philosophy)

It is possible for angels to become devils and, perhaps more difficult to conceive, for devils to become angels.

Philip Zimbardo (via fyp-psychology)

I don’t believe in unconditional love. In fact, I think it’s unwise. My love has had a condition that if ever my love keeps you from you, from your growing, and realizing your personal potential, then I must step aside. No one has the right to stand in the way of another’s joy, development, or unique perceptions.

Leo Buscaglia (via wordsnquotes)

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend (via wordsnquotes)

I refuse to be reforested. I stay razed            as a reminder.

Nina Puro, from “houses all the way down, or, the slope mine” (via christophercarrioned)

There is a kingdom in me, and sometimes it is burning. Sometimes, I let it. I promise never to hide this from you. That is my vow. I promise to be an open mouth. I promise to stay fractured. I promise to be imperfect. I promise to be the bravest broken window you’ve ever seen.

Caitlyn Siehl, Difficult (via thatsyourgold)

I love myself when I am laughing… and then again when I am looking mean and impressive.

Zora Neale Hurston, I Love Myself When I Am Laughing… And Then Again: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader (via wordsnquotes)