#ling

You can recognize survivors of abuse by their courage. When silence is so very inviting, they step forward and share their truth so others know they aren't alone. ↗

— Jeanne McElvaney

#abuse-survivors #childhood-abuse #childhood-sexual-abuse #effects-of-child-abuse #harrietta-s-happenstance

There was a beautiful feeling of calm in my groin, a sense of peace so remarkable it was almost ecstasy——anyone who' suffered bad pain and then recovered will know what I'm talking about. ↗

— Stephen King

#pain #recovering #beauty

consolation is a beautiful word. everyone skins his knee-that doesnt make yours hurt anyless. ↗

— Amy Hempel

#beauty

Beauty, happiness, they're things so big they can't capture them with their scientific words. It's like what they used to call magic. ↗

— Heather Anastasiu

#feeling-infinite #happiness #infinite #magic #beauty

You had to break, to be unbroken. In the brokenness, I had found, that which was unbroken. That which was perfect, and beautiful, and complete. ↗

— T. Scott McLeod

#healing-in-the-hurting-places #healing-the-emotional-self #imperfections #perfection #beauty

I absolutely, positively hate this beautiful, magical feeling. ↗

— Colleen Hoover

#love #beauty

Fighting and writing’s deepest layers of beauty lie not only in the physical and mental realms of what we know, but also as an incognizable instinct, a realm we will never fully know but will forever feel. ↗

— Cameron Conaway

#feelings #fighting #instinct #writing #beauty

Have you noticed that whatever sport you're trying to learn, some earnest person is always telling you to keep your knees bent? ↗

— Dave Barry

#bent #earnest #keep #knees #learn

Maybe that was the problem," Jacob said softly. "Don't we all need to feel needed? That we'd be missed if we were gone? ↗

— Justina Chen

#missed #needed #beauty

There, in the shimmering distance, was a sail. I stared in momentary disbelief, but there it was, one of the most beautiful sights the Pacific can ever offer — a ship in full sail edging her way through the blue waters. ↗

— Tom Neale

#beauty