Perfectionism is a self destructive and addictive belief system that fuels this primary thought: If I look perfect, and do everything perfectly, I can avoid or minimize the painful feelings of shame, judgment, and blame.
Shame cannot survive being spoken. It cannot tolerate having words wrapped around it. What it craves is secrecy, silence, and judgment. If you stay quiet, you stay in a lot of self-judgment.
In order for connection to happen, we have to allow ourselves to be seen, really seen.
To love at all is to be vulnerable.
It was my life – like all lives, mysterious and irrevocable and sacred. So very close, so very present, so very belonging to me. How wild it was, to let it be.
Be happy for no reason, like a child. If you are happy for a reason, you’re in trouble, because that reason can be taken from you.
Be happy for no reason, like a child.
Sometimes it just feels so amazing to finally stand up for yourself. I highly recommend it. Life is too short to be taken for granted.
Self-esteem is that deep-down inside the skin feeling you have of your own self-worth.
The worse feeling is when someone makes you feel special, then suddenly leaves you hanging, and you have to act like you don’t care at all.
Emotion arises at the place where mind and body meet. It is the body’s reaction to your mind – or you might say, a reflection of your mind in the body.
Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.
We loved with a love that was more than love.
The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.
I miss you deeply, unfathomably, senselessly, terribly.
I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.
Love isn’t a state of perfect caring. It is an active noun like struggle. To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now.
That’s the thing about pain, it demands to be felt.
If you will stop feeding your feelings, then they will stop controlling you.
Between what is said and not meant, and what is meant and not said, most of love is lost.