of skin, veins, and bones.

Sometimes you just have to remember that you are not superhuman… You weren’t meant to fight all the evils of the world. What you were meant to do is be as beautifully human as you can, and to love with all the strength you possess. You don’t have to save the world, you just have to love the people in it.

I loved you at your darkest.

- Romans 5:8 (via xplsns)

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Relax. You will become an adult. You will figure out your career. You will find someone who loves you. You have a whole lifetime; time takes time. The only way to fail at life is to abstain.

- Johanna de Silentio  (via livefortravel)

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You must love in such a way that the person you love feels free.

- Thich Nhat Hanh (via sorakeem)

Never settle. Not for ‘close enoughs’, not for “pretty goods’, not for kisses that don’t vibrate down your spine, not for text messages or phone calls when you could meet face-to-face. Don’t settle for friends who won’t make plans with you in case something better comes along. Don’t settle for a career that gets you plenty of benefits but no satisfaction. Don’t settle for someone you wouldn’t stay up all night talking to. Don’t settle for bad movies or bad books… You don’t have to finish everything you start. Don’t settle for a dozen roses when you know you prefer daisies. Don’t settle for remakes or generic when you can have the real thing. Don’t settle for ‘it’s complicated’, because you’re better off lonely than putting up with broken promises. Don’t settle for half the dessert if you want the whole thing. You should not settle for anything less than the absolute best. And this does not make you greedy or stingy or difficult, it makes you valuable and beautiful and worth it. And you are so worth it. Never settle for anything that makes you feel like you’re not worth it. Never settle for anything that makes you feel less beautiful. Don’t settle for the brown dress when you’d rather have the red. Don’t settle for tears when you can find laughter somewhere else. Don’t settle for anything that is lukewarm, because life was meant to be lived on fire. Don’t settle for a walk when you can go for a run. Don’t settle, never, ever settle for anything less than the best. Because you’re worth it. You’re worth the absolute best.

Lately I’ve been thinking about who I want to love, and how I want to love, and why I want to love the way I want to love, and what I need to learn to love that way, and who I need to become to become the kind of love I want to be…and when I break it all down, when I whittle it into a single breath, it essentially comes out like this: Before I die, I want to be somebody’s favorite hiding place, the place they can put everything they know they need to survive, every secret, every solitude, every nervous prayer, and be absolutely certain I will keep it safe. I will keep it safe.

- Andrea Gibson  (via leeislike)

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You might be sitting with him at the kitchen table drinking coffee from mismatched mugs and saying nothing because sometimes saying nothing is the best thing to say. He’s miles away, and you’re thinking you should take a shower or fix your hair or at least brush your teeth because you feel dirty and self-conscious. You wish the sun weren’t so bright on your face and you wish there was something other than corn flakes for breakfast so your stomach won’t start making hideous noises. You’re about to open your mouth and say something to break the silence, but he speaks first. He tilts his head slightly and says:

“You make me really happy.”

And you will agree he does, too.

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Carrie Laski, Things To Say Besides I Love You. (via theburnthatkeepseverything)

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Marry your best friend. I do not say that lightly. Really, truly find the strongest, happiest friendship in the person you fall in love with. Someone who speaks highly of you. Someone you can laugh with. The kind of laughs that make your belly ache, and your nose snort. The embarrassing, earnest, healing kind of laughs. Wit is important. Life is too short not to love someone who lets you be a fool with them. Make sure they are somebody who lets you cry, too. Despair will come. Find someone that you want to be there with you through those times. Most importantly, marry the one that makes passion, love, and madness combine and course through you. A love that will never dilute - even when the waters get deep, and dark.

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N’tima

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Two things define you. Your patience when you have nothing, and your attitude when you have everything.

- unknown (via cleamour)

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Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say “My tooth is aching” than to say “My heart is broken.

- C.S. Lewis (via seabois)