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I will not let triggers, flashbacks,nightmares control my emotions.I will not let those triedto destroy me win this war.I have awakened and I willfind peace with myself.

Beautiful are those whose brokenness gives birth to transformation and wisdom.

Death is a departure.

Let's dispel a little myth. Working hard is NOT the key to success. It may be an ingredient, but it isn't the main one.

I don't like you, Park. I think I live for you. I don't think I even breathe when we're not together. Which means when I see you on Monday morning, it's been like sixty hours since I've taken a breath. That's probably why I'm so crabby, and why I snap at you. All I do when we're apart is think about you, and all I do when we're together is panic. Because every second feels so important. And because I'm so out of control, I can't help myself. I'm not even mine anymore, I'm yours, and what if you decide that you don't want me? How could you want me like I want you?

Plan for the rest of my life, I will travel the world and retire in the himalayas.

My heart feels strong for you, my desire isn’t just to marry you and let this be our moment, Kiersten. I want to marry you and create a million moments every single day.

In walking or working your dream, arriving is a bad thing, because arriving makes you do things you said you wouldn’t do when you started.

Never ask me to reach for the moon when all I want is to hold your hand." -- Fidelis O Mkparu, author of 'Love's Affliction

Perhaps everything terrible is, in its deepest being, something that needs our love.

She hoped that Tin Win would learn what she had learned over the years: that there are wounds time does not heal, though it can reduce them to a manageable size.

In darkness I follow the light and find my way to the beginning again, and again, and again.

Don't say, "the sky is my limit", say, "I progress ad infinitum.

If the achievement of so much in life could not make one happy, then why bother living?

First I was decayed, I was putrefied. Kept thinking I could never live on, now that I had died...

Salvation is for sinners

When people start getting depressed there’s just no end to it—things just seem to get worse and worse.

Who are you to decide the price for life?

Be glad that I'm not a horror writer, some people write about it, other make images... but third just create it??? As for me, I have create it from horror up to nightmares!

Delicacy in shaping desires of any kind will help to reach excellence, but failure will bring disaster.

If you don’t want your past to own you, try owning your past.

If Jiu Jitsu does not make you a better father, son, mother, daughter, wife or husband, you are missing the point. If Jiu Jitsu does not leave you viewing strangers in a kinder light, you are missing the point. If you are not better equipped to deal with the vicissitudes of life due to your training, then you are not really training.

I do believe in the power of prayer. I do. And I believe in the power of human kindness.

Well, thank the gods,' he sighed.'Oh? And what would it be you're thanking them for?' Bahzell inquired, and Brandark grinned.'For making roads and letting us find one. Not that I'm complaining, you understand, but this business of following you cross-country without the faintest idea where I am can worry a man.

But that's the thing, how you feel about the place that's home. About its sky, its air, its smell, the color of the light, the way the rain falls (or doesn't), whether it hot or cold.

The difference in our potential as angels or demons is the effect of time on the decisions we make.

...futility is being sorry while doing nothing to remove the cause ...

And honey no matter how bad it hurts, never forget that something about you made him once fall in love. Don't lose that.

I am good enough, attractive enough, important enough just as I am. I do not have to fix, help, or caretake others to earn their love.

Darkness does something to a place, doesn’t it? It distorts. It becomes a canvas for the imagination. The good news is that shadows are only the deflection of light. They can frighten, but they can do no harm.

Love is the miracle of life.

Look at it this way: We're two people who happen to have a lot in common, a connection most people would kill for, we trust each other, and we have the kind of sex that people base pornos on. The fact that we're both men really doesn't make a difference, does it?

The weekends are too short for sleep!

Foolishness sleeps soundly, while knowledge turns with each thinking hour, longing for the dawn of answers.

People try to say suicide is the most cowardly act a man could ever commit. I don't think that's true at all. What's cowardly is treating a man so badly that he wants to commit suicide.

My cup was already brimming before I met him —after it runneth over.

There are possibilities that exist beyond our present "knowing," and to see those possibilities, we must abandon that which makes us feel safe.

Poverty is a state of the mind that was created as a result of unhealthy environmental factors. When you are surrounded with unhealthy environmental factors, you will think poorly, speak poorly, act and behave poorly.

I used to wonder what I was doing wrong. Now I know: just about everything.

At least it's working out because Cheddar is sort of obsessed with me, or at least very interested, which in the world of felines counts as obsessive behavior.

Dark hair on a white pillow, an ache inside, his face a reflection in her eye.

Love caught me with my pants down, watering skeleton flowers and humming the blues.

The sweetest smiles hold the darkest secrets...

You can only chase a butterfly for so long.

Everyone of us has a new name that winks at us daily because there are rivers of life in our bellies, we just need our mentors to help us to give birth to those new names.

If you give up, you reward failure.

Rome is a broken mirror, the falling straps of a dress, a puzzle of astonishing complexity. It is an iceberg floating below our terrace, all its ballasts hidden beneath the surface.

Whoever teaches learns in the act of teaching, and whoever learns teaches in the act of learning.

To put a dreamer in their place isn’t dreaming.

‎Most of the times, we feel more enjoyment from just recalling good memories of the past rather from those moments we lived,not because we did not have a good time but because realization has come late.

Every day is filled with spectacular moments. Seek them!

[L]ife is a phenomenon in need of criticism, for we are, as fallen creatures, in permanent danger of worshipping false gods, of failing to understand ourselves and misinterpreting the behaviour of others, of growing unproductively anxious or desirous, and of losing ourselves to vanity and error. Surreptitiously and beguilingly, then, with humour or gravity, works of art--novels, poems, plays, paintings or films--can function as vehicles to explain our condition to us. They may act as guides to a truer, more judicious, more intelligent understanding of the world.

The more elaborate his labyrinths, the further from the Sun his face.

I waited for you. I shouldn't have.But that's my problem. I'm alwayswaiting for you. For everyone. Butno one waits for me. I stay back, when everyone has moved on, andwait for you to come along. BecauseI don't want you to be alone. I don't like to be alone, so I don't want you to feel that way either. But you won'twait for me. That's okay. I'm used tobeing alone. Don't worry. I'll still waitfor you. I won't leave you alone.

Anti-depressants are just tools, one of many, which we use to try and ease the suffering, numb the pain and disperse the dark clouds in our mind in the hope that maybe, just maybe, a little sunlight will shine through.

And I keep wandering in search of a nothingness...

The surest way to remain poor is to be honest.

Something that is set can be broken, so are society standards and limits.

In the past, changing the self and changing the world were often regarded as separate endeavors and viewed in either-or terms. But in the story of the Great Turning, they are recognized as mutually reinforcing and essential to one another.

Pray for good.Pray for happy.And always pray for Mom.