#poem

We cannot simply sit and stare at our wounds forever. We must stand up and move on to the next action.

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Some people will never fit into your life, no matter how much you want them to.

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Never tell a child ‘you have a soul.’ Teach him, you are a soul; you have a body.

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And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter—

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I knew I’d follow him anywhere. When my sister used to talk about being in love, she said it felt like someone wrapping

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Never forget that turning a blind eye to oppression and watching from the sidelines itself oppression.

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Behind every beautiful thing there’s some kind of pain.

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Walking away had been easy. Not looking back was harder.

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We are products of our past but we don’t have to be prisoners of it.

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I take much pleasure in being alone but there is also a strange warm grace in not being alone.

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It was important for him to believe that he’d spent his life among people who kept missing the point.

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All I can hear now is the sound of my own heart, opening and closing, opening and closing, opening.

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Don’t let us forget that the causes of human actions are usually immeasurably more complex and varied than our

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Don’t ask yourself what the world needs, ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the

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I hide behind sarcasm because telling you to go fuck yourself is considered rude in most social situations.

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I don’t care anymore, but sometimes, it hurts just a little.

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There’s that thing that can happen to you when you meet somebody and you don’t consider them extraordinary at all and then

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Going after a dream has a price. It may mean abandoning our habits, it may make us go through hardships, or it may lead us

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I don’t want to get attached to anyone anymore, it only destroys me in the end.

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Don’t turn people into your home, or you’ll end up homeless.

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Now that she had nothing to lose, she was free.

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Stop doing what is easy or popular. Start doing what is right.

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With everything that has happened to you, you can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a

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Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their illusions destroyed.

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