better to lose people not meant for you than to exhaust yourself trying to impress, love, help, and grow with people who never will be
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“Never miss an opportunity to show your love, especially to those close to you, because we are always at our most cautious with them for fear of being hurt.”
— Paulo Coelho
find someone
who knows
you’re sad
just by the change
of tone in your
voice
be with someone
who loves the
feature that
you hate the most
fall in love with
someone who
looks at you and
knows they don’t
want anyone else
“It’s so disappointing giving someone chance after chance, hoping that one day they’ll change. I have no idea how many mornings I’ve woken up and prayed that today would be the day they changed and loved me the way I need to be loved, but I think after so many hopeful mornings ended by so many hopeless nights I need to accept that they’re not going to change and that they don’t deserve my love, no matter how badly I want to give it to them.”
— in the end, i’m only hurting myself.
“Some people feel like they don’t deserve love. They walk away quietly into empty spaces, trying to close the gaps of the past.”
— Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer
(via goodreadss)
do you ever just listen to sad music to let it hurt or is that just me
“Love is vivid. I never wanted the pale version. Love is full strength. I never wanted the diluted version. I never shied away from love’s hugeness but I had no idea that love could be as reliable as the sun. The daily rising of love.”
— Jeanette Winterson
In order to make a relationship last, you really have to flow with a person as they change. Give them space. My friend always told me about his grandfather who was with his wife for 60 years before she passed. His grandfather said that through all that time, his wife changed so much it felt like he had been with 8 different people by the end. But he said the secret to making it last was that through all those changes, he never suffocated his wife with his own idea of who he expected her to be. Rather he loved, fully, every new woman she became.
THIS!!!!
Don’t text that toxic person. Don’t check their social media. Don’t take it to heart when your friends bring them up. Don’t bring them up - talking about them only reinforces their presence in your life. Don’t let it bother you when you see them in passing.
What’s done is done. Let it go. You have people who care about you. You will find love again. You will have good days and bad days, but remember to appreciate the happy moments and not dwell on the bad. You will be okay. You are capable. You are strong. You are enough. You have made it through so much, and you will make it through this moment too. Keep going, you’re doing great.
have you ever lost all respect for someone? like you don’t necessarily hate them, but you don’t feel the need to associate yourself or say anything to them anymore…
