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We are made of so much more than our yesterdays, our doubts, our insecurities, our fears, our brokenness.

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Healing is not going to war and coming out unshaken. It’s moving forward despite the bruises and scars.

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This is for the sensitive people, the ones who remain soft despite the difficulty of this world.

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No one warns you about how much it’ll hurt to let go of all the pretty memories when the ending wasn’t pretty at all.

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What if in order to rise, we have to face that pain head on? What if owning the pain, that we’re not okay, helps us finally start to feel okay?

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No matter how far you drop, know that you’re different because of it.

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She gets so afraid. Afraid that you’ll use her fears against her. Afraid that you’ll say things that would create more cracks — unfixable cracks.

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Some people are only in a friendship or relationship in order to get ahead.

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We can learn from pain, to never place our hand in the fire twice. But we are often foolish, either forgetting the sensation or attempting to feel the flame in a different way, always yielding the same result, always burning.

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But I don’t regret a single thing, even the times when you broke my heart and made me cry.