#akin

And I was -- this is just how I was afraid you'd take it. I knew it, that you'd think this means you were right to be afraid all the time and never feel secure or trust me. I knew it'd be 'See, you're leaving after all when you promised you wouldn't.' I knew it but I'm trying to explain anyway, okay? And I know you probably won't understand this either, but --wait-- just try to listen and maybe absorb this, okay? Ready? Me leaving is not the confirmation of all your fears about me. It is not. It's because of them. Okay? Can you see that? It's your fear I can't take. It's your distrust and fear I've been trying to fight. And I can't anymore. I'm out of gas on it. If I loved you even a little less maybe I could take it. But this is killing me, this constant feeling that I am always scaring you and never making you feel secure. Can you see that? ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#trust #love

The world is shaped by two things — stories told and the memories they leave behind. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#actions #acts #creation #dream #dreams

I don't balance you like you need." "What the hell does that mean?" he exclaimed. My heart ached for him, and I was so sorry for what I'd done...but this was the truth of it all. "The fact that you have to ask says it all. When you find that person...you'll know. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#true-love #love

Waiting hurts. Forgetting hurts. But not knowing which decision to take can sometimes be the most painful... ↗

— José N. Harris

#decisions #pain #waiting #waiting

Take care of my heart, I've left it with you. ↗

— Stephenie Meyer

#edward-cullen #isle-esme #roman

A good speech should be like a woman's skirt: long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest ↗

— Winston Churchill

#public-speaking #simile #speaking #speech

But one of the things I have learned during the time I have spent in the United States is an old African American saying: Each one, teach one. I want to believe that I am here to teach one and, more, that there is one here who is meant to teach me. And if we each one teach one, we will make a difference. ↗

— Marcus Samuelsson

#making-a-difference #racism #teaching #racism

If a man doesn't know how to dance he doesn't know how to make love, there I said it! ↗

— Craig Ferguson

#dance #dancing #lovemaking #man #men

Even If You own a Kingdom, You will be a Slave If Your Life has no Liberation and Freedom. ↗

— Rvm

#freedom

If you own this story you get to write the ending. ↗

— Brené Brown

#personal-responsibility #self #story #taking-ownership #life