#pre

In a strange way, I had fallen in love with my depression. Dr. Sterling was right about that. I loved it because I thought it was all I had. I thought depression was the part of my character that made me worthwhile. I thought so little of myself, felt that I had such scant offerings to give to the world, that the one thing that justified my existence at all was my agony. ↗

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

#existance #love #prozac #love

If one unlabeled bottle holds nonfat milk, what does the second unlabeled bottle contain? If you answered “Whole milk” then you’re obviously not ready to receive a jug of my love. So I’ll just pour it in someone else’s coffee.
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— Jarod Kintz

#label #labels #love #milk #nonsense

Don't walk in my head with your dirty feet. ↗

— Leo Buscaglia

#prejudice #love

Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#future #gratitude #love #past #present

The six squares of our love didn’t add up to a cube. Still, I took the oddly-shaped box down to the post office and tried to mail it into the future, when I’d be more prepared to open it.
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— Jarod Kintz

#cube #future #love #mail #prepare

Depression is the flaw in love. To be creatures who love, we must be creatures who can despair at what we lose, and depression is the mechanism of that despair. ↗

— Andrew Solomon

#despair #loss #love #love

It's nonverbal: I need love. I need the thing that happens when your brain shuts off and your heart turns on. And I know it's around me somewhere, but I just can't feel it. ↗

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

#memoir #love

Amy adored both the new look and the new person it allowed her to be. Following the photo shoot, she wore her bruises to the dry cleaner and the grocery store. Most people nervously looked away, but on the rare occasions someone would ask what happened, my sister would smile as brightly as possible, saying, 'I'm in love. Can you believe it? I'm finally, totally in love, and I feel great. ↗

— David Sedaris

#love

Let others see their own greatness when looking in your eyes. ↗

— Mollie Marti

#love #presence #strength #love

Now he was nothing to her, just a lesson in time, a wicked boy-man, incapable of wealth or prestige. ↗

— Coco J. Ginger

#jamie-weise #lesson-learned #love #love-hate #love-hate-relationship