Jeremy Goldberg

We sacrifice ourselves so they won’t feel pain, but in doing so we collect hurt that isn’t ours to carry.

This may be an oversimplification of a whole bunch of complex ideas, but I really do believe it’s better to upset people by being real rather than upsetting them by being fake.⁣

I don’t want someone whose baggage goes with mine. I just want someone who can identify and carry their own.

Fact: It’s okay to feel however the hell you need to feel.

But, in the space between ‘what if’ and ‘what is’ there lies a ‘maybe’ a ‘just might’ and a ‘what could be’. There lies possibility, and that’s where the leap lives. That’s where chance hatches – in the risk, a hunch of intuition leading to decision, a spark of opportunity to be brave in the face of change.

Healing means owning the pain without pushing it away.

What advice would you give yourself five years ago?

It took me a long time to realize that I am the only problem in my life.

“Overall, we don’t want a life half-lived, half-assed, or half-hearted. We don’t want to go through the motions just to fulfil some outdated notion of what this ‘us’ is supposed to be. We don’t want superficial, surface-level, unemotional, uninteresting, unexceptional, average, ordinary connection.”

You are living, breathing happiness.

Starting today, I take my power back. Starting today, I am enough.

I wonder where your thoughts go when you close your eyes.

Not many people on their deathbed regret following their heart, but do you know what they do regret? They regret living small. They regret playing safe.

I want the dim stars in dark skies to match the calm stares in your eyes when you look at me, speechless and hopeful, and I want to know there and then, now and again, I want to truly know what it means to feel alive.

Remind me how I love getting lost in you. Remind me that you are an adventure worth taking and never forgetting.

The best people I know have seen soul mates become strangers and have felt ghosts in their veins where gods used to reign.

Help lift her up. Help make her see. Teach yourself the powerful and noble truth that here is nothing more beautiful than a smiling soul staring at you with love-filled eyes. Make her smile. Warm her heart. Be silly.