“Every friendship travels at sometime through the black valley of despair. This tests every aspect of your affection. You lose the attraction and the magic. Your sense of each other darkens and your presence is sore. If you can come through this time, it can purify with your love, and falsity and need will fall away. It will bring you onto new ground where affection can grow again.”
—John O’Donohue (Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom)
July 2011
“In love relationships, there is a fine line between pleasure and pain. In fact it’s a common belief that a relationship without pain is a relationship not worth having. To some, pain implies growth, but how do we know when the growing pain stops, and the pain pains take over? Are we masochists or optimists if we continue to walk that fine line? When it comes to relationships how do you know when enough is enough?”
—Carrie Bradshaw (Sex and the City)
“We live in a world of worse-case scenarios. We cut ourselves off from hoping for the best. Because too many times, the best doesn’t happen. But every now and then, something extraordinary occurs. And suddenly, best case scenarios seem possible. Every now and then, something amazing happens. And, against our better judgement, we start to have hope.”
—(via raindropsonredroses)
“That is the way it is with a wound. The wound begins to close in on itself to protect what is hurting so much. And once it is closed, you no longer see what is underneath, what started the pain.”
—(via raindropsonredroses)
“Don’t attach yourself to anyone who shows you the least bit of attention because you’re lonely. Loneliness is the human condition. No one is ever going to fill that space. The best you can do is know yourself. Know what you want.”
— Ingrid Magnussen (via skyisland)
“I wondered what happened when you offered yourself to someone, and they opened you, only to discover you were not the gift they expected and they had to smile and nod and say thank you all the same.”
—Jodi Picoult (My Sister’s Keeper)
“I’m tired of people who judge me without knowing my history.”
—Eminem (via surferdude182)
“We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.”
—Ray Bradbury (via girlwithoutwings)
