If you have been expending lots of energy mingling, counseling, or socializing, you need some down time to recover. Put it on your calendar so you can be intentional about it. And for an hour or so, go to a place by yourself. Read, relax, or do nothing. No one is there to talk to you for those minutes. Enjoy your blessed aloneness for a brief season. Thom S. Rainer
We always see our worst selves. Our most vulnerable selves. We need someone else to get close enough to tell us we’re wrong. Someone we trust.
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David Levithan
Friends are the family you choose (~ Nin/Ithilnin, Elven rogue).
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Jess C. Scott
When you loved someone and had to let them go, there will always be that small part of yourself that whispers, "What was it that you wanted and why didn't you fight for it?
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Shannon L. Alder
How sad and bad and mad it was - but then, how it was sweet
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Robert Browning
Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?
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Charles Bukowski
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