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"personality can open doors, but only character
can keep them open."
- Elmer G. Letterman
actually, i think i do know you pretty well. you
continually surprise me though, in good and bad
ways. so i might not be able to tell you what you're
thinking at any given time, but i'm pretty confident
that i know the basis of who you are. that's the
most important part.
be nice and smile to everyone you meet. you don't
know what they are going through, and they may
need that smile and treasure it.
let us strap compassion to our chests and
run as if we never knew how until now.
"go confidently in the direction of your dreams.
live the life you have imagined."
- Henry David Thoreau
you make tomorrow worth the wait
and yesterday worth remembering.
"God is close to the broken heart. He
rescues those who are crushed in spirit."
- Psalm 34:18
they say it's the little things in life that
really matter, but you're a big part of
me. and you matter the most.
i want somebody to sleep with me, and just sleep.
someone to cuddle up with during a movie on a couch.
stay up all night talking about nothing. get lost in the woods
together. challenge me, let me challenge him. talk about
dreams, and make dreams. have fights, the kind that only
really matter just as long as you're having them. someone
i can wrestle with, you know, play hard sometimes and
not worry about breaking a nail or an arm. a guy who will
bring me flowers once in a while, maybe a rock too or a
shell of some sort. something he saw that made him think
of me, made him think "this might make my girl smile" as
he smiles to himself. a guy who wants me, maybe even
needs me, just a little, enough to hold onto me with
everything he's got.
"love is a great beautifier"
- Louisa May Alcott
for love is the beauty of the soul."
- St. Augustine
love comes when manipulation stops; when you think
more about the other person than about his or her
reactions to you. when you dare to reveal yourself
fully. when you dare to be vulnerable.
"what i needed most was to love and to be loved,
eager to be caught. happily i wrapped those painful
bonds around me; and sure enough, i would be lashed
with the red-hot pokers of jealousy, by suspicions and
fear, by burst of anger and quarrels."
- St. Augustine
"a man who wants to make a relationship work will
move mountains to keep the woman he loves. if he's
not calling you to tell you he loves you and wants you
back, it should only be because he's showing up at
your new residence to do it in person...if he's not doing
any of that, he may love you, he may miss you, but
ultimately he's just not that into you. stop taking his
calls and let him know what it's like to live without you."
- He's Just Not That Into You
"to find the universal elements enough; to find the air
and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a
morning walk or an evening saunter...to be thrilled
by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird's nest
or a wildflower in the spring - these are some of the
rewards of the simple life."
- John Burroughs
there is always one person you love who becomes that
definition. it usually happens retrospectively, but it happens
eventually. this is the person who unknowingly sets the
template for what you will always love about other people,
even if some of the loveable qualities are self-destructive
and unreasonable. the person who defines your understanding
of love is not inherently different than anyone else, and they're
often just the person you happen to meet the first time you
really, really want to love someone. but that person still
wins. they win, and you lose. because for the rest of your
life, they will control how you feel about everyone else.
there's two types of people in the world,
the givers and the takers, and the givers
always sleep better at night.
and so, while the rest of the world went on unaware,
drinking their coffee, reading the sports page, and picking
up their dry cleaning, i leaned forward and i kissed him,
making a choice that would change everything. maybe
somewhere there was a ripple, a bit of a jump, some
small shift in the universe, barely noticeable. i didn't feel
it then. i felt only him kissing me back, easing into the
sunlight as i lost myself in the taste of him and felt the
world go on, just as it always had, all around us.
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