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God reminds me that happiness comes from experiencing His love. And that is why I smile through the pain. Not because I’m faking it, but because His love overwhelms me when I struggle.

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You always have a choice to make, even in the chaos.

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The sun has shifted now, and the dappled shadows of the leaves reach my knees. 

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I walk through the streets and my body feels like a New York winter and I’m limping like an injured deer and my legs are frozen and my nose is frozen and my entire being is frozen and everything is numb, numb, numb and I stumble around like a drunken sailor and you say you’ll love me through it.

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Send a text. Ask them how they’re doing. Tell them you miss their face and their presence. Sometimes a text as simple as “Hey, I miss you” means the world to me when I’m going through a hard time.

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Take pride in how far you’ve come and don’t for a minute think that you’re any less than the next person you come across.

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When a Taurus girlfriend is really comfortable in her relationship, she becomes protective.

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Our lives are inherently lonely. But to be born human is to be born with capacity to beat back this loneliness the way light conquers darkness. We love so that we may feel less lonely and more permanent.

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Scorpio: It is okay to want success, to want to achieve your goals. But it is also okay to slow down sometimes, to enjoy life in the little moments, and to give your soul and your brain and your heart a break every once in a while. 

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I’m angry at the world for glorifying mental illnesses and for self-diagnosing, using the names out of context to label themselves on a bad day.