#sing

Better to put your heart on the line, risk everything, and walk away with nothing than play it safe. Love is a lot of things, but “safe” isn’t one of them. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#dating #heart #love #playing-it-safe #positive-thinking

Sometimes it takes a heartbreak to shake us awake & help us see we are worth so much more than we're settling for. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#dating #heartbreak #holding-out-for-the-best #letting-go #love

Breakups have a way of shaking us awake and helping us see what we really want vs. what we are willing to settle for. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#breakups #dating #going-through-a-breakup #holding-out-for-the-best #honoring-yourself

Be a bit of a challenge; not because you're playing games but because you realize you're worth the extra effort. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#being-single #challenge #dating #know-your-value #love

Love shouldn’t require Windex to be clear. It either is or it isn’t. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#clarity #dating #finding-the-one #he-s-just-not-that-into-you #holding-out-for-the-best

Not everything in life has to be about finding “The One.” Sometimes a girl just wants to have fun. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#dating #enjoying-life #finding-love #fun #love

Death is part of who we are. It guides us. It shapes us. It drives us to madness. Can you still be human if you have no mortal end ↗

— Christopher Paolini

#death #human #death

Usually time alters and affects everything, but when someone you love dies time cannot change that, no amount of time will ever change that, so time stops having any meaning. ↗

— Rosamund Lupton

#love #missing #time #change

When someone you love dies, and you're not expecting it, you don't lose her all at once; you lose her in pieces over a long time - the way the mail stops coming, and her scent fades away from the pillows and even from the clothes in her closet and drawers. Gradually, you accumulate the parts of her that are gone. Just when the day comes - when there's a particular missing part that overwhelms you with the feeling that she's gone, forever - there comes another day, and another specifically missing part. ↗

— John Irving

#grief #missing #death

My peak? Would I even have one? I hardly had had anything you could call a life. A few ripples. some rises and falls. But that's it. Almost nothing. Nothing born of nothing. I'd loved and been loved, but I had nothing to show. It was a singularly plain, featureless landscape. I felt like I was in a video game. A surrogate Pacman, crunching blindly through a labyrinth of dotted lines. The only certainty was my death. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#death #falling #featureless #labyrinth #nothing