#pa

When someone cries so hard that it hurts their throat, it is out of frustration or knowing that no matter what you can do or attempt to do can change the situation. When you feel like you need to cry, when you want to just get it out, relieve some of the pressure from the inside - that is true pain. Because no matter how hard you try or how bad you want to, you can't. That pain just stays in place. Then, if you are lucky, one small tear may escape from those eyes that water constantly. That one tear, that tiny, salty, droplet of moisture is a means of escape. Although it's just a small tear, it is the heaviest thing in the world. And it doesn't do a damn thing to fix anything. ↗

— Chase Brooks

#fiction #pain #romance #change

How would your life be different if…You stopped making negative judgmental assumptions about people you encounter? Let today be the day…You look for the good in everyone you meet and respect their journey. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#assumption #change #compassion #inspirational #judging

To say goodbye is to die a little. ↗

— Raymond Chandler

#life #parting #romantics #change

Kel: He says he's changed. Neal: I suppose he could have changed, I myself have noticed my growing resemblance to a daffodil. Kel: You do look yellow around the edges. I hadn't wanted to bring it up. Neal: We daffodils like to have things brought up. It reminds us of spring. ↗

— Tamora Pierce

#neal #page #change

To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket - safe, dark, motionless, airless - it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#pain #vulnerability #change

Take it from me: If you hear the past speaking to you, feel it tugging up your back and runing its fingers up your spine, the best thing to do-the only thing-is run. ↗

— Lauren Oliver

#fear #hurt #pain #past #run

There is no excitement anywhere in the world, short of war, to match the excitement of the American presidential campaign. ↗

— Theodore White

#anywhere #campaign #excitement #match #presidential

If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write. ↗

— Martin Luther

#impact #writing #change

Change not only was inevitable, but usually brought its own rewards. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#nicolas-sparks #the-last-song #change

You couldn't erase the past. You couldn't even change it. But sometimes life offered you the opportunity to put it right. ↗