Kim Quindlen

Libra: Irresistible.

To feel like you’re suffocating from your own painful feelings, to feel like you’re never going to come back up to the surface – it means you are going through one of the most universal human experiences that has ever existed. And you’re getting stronger, tougher, and more empathetic because of it.

Gemini: You are constantly surprising them.

“She told me she had lost fifteen pounds and without meaning to I just looked at her and said ‘Oh’ and was visibly surprised, because it definitely did not look like that. Before you judge me for being an asshole, she left me for not making enough money. I’m a teacher.”

Pisces: Finally do something on your bucket list that you’ve consistently avoided out of fear. You’re a big dreamer, but you have a harder time allowing yourself to actually try things. Sign up for that creative writing class, learn how to surf, or just call up that old friend you’ve drifted away from. Give yourself permission to step outside of your comfort zone.

4. They nourish their brains with the things that they want to see. 

You’ve gone through heartbreak, and whether you are fully over it now or are still healing, you’ve learned that you are so much stronger than you ever could have guessed.

Gemini: You make everything more exciting.

Wait for a relationship that is filled with goodness but that is completely imperfect – so that you can understand and experience how much better love is when it’s real and human as opposed to perfect and flawless.

Someone with anxiety falls in love the way you do – they fall in love intensely and vulnerably and wholly. The only difference for them is getting to a place where they believe that they truly deserve it.

Libra: You’ve never had a problem making connections with people and you probably never will. But you also cannot allow your charming nature to become your crutch for everything.

The kind of person who survives a broken heart isn’t doing it gracefully, and elegantly, and beautifully. They are living right in the middle of its ugliness, right in the middle of the loneliness and the crippling sadness and the real, physical nausea that can come from losing love.

They know that love can be an incredible high – something otherworldly and beautiful and light-giving. But they never want to forget that love also takes effort, sacrifice, difficult choices, and patience.

When you fall in love with an old soul, you fall in love with the beautiful side of slowness. You fall in love with patience, with tender quietness, with the experience of knowing someone in a way you’ve never known anyone else.

Capricorn: You try to compartmentalize everything.

I feel a lot of things. I don’t know anything. I am scared. Sometimes I am filled with joy. I am worried about the world. I am just trying to be a person.

“You need to go into this understanding that it’s going to be really, really, really, really, really, really hard. People will tell you this a lot but you’ll brush it off and think you’ll be different. You won’t, no matter how in love you are. Be prepared for it to be really hard.”

Leo: Your endless thoughtfulness.