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This inability to conform actually gives them their greatest advantage: to see the world differently, and to be motivated to change it.

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there are hearts that need to be guarded to learn to be open
and there are hearts that need to be open to teach this world that it is safe to love

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Let love transform you, not define you. Let love bloom within you, not build your sense of self. Let love teach you, not tell you how to live. Let love become a part of you, not your identity.

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Being able to shift gears in the heat of an argument and take a break is one of the most crucial relationship skills. It’s also one of the most difficult.

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As the moon crept into the sky –
You hold me close, my body in flames

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I had two options — to keep missing him and wait endlessly for his response, or to send some silly, embarrassing heartfelt message and then die regretting over my action.

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I know the people I have loved; it will never really go away. Love never dies.

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If you really love someone, if your heart is caught up and wrapped around a person, why on earth would you let them go? Why on earth would you say goodbye and watch, from a distance, as they fall into the arms of someone else?

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Be the girl with the over-sized heart — the one who loves deeply and unapologetically.

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See, I am not ashamed that I have a type. I have loved and I have lost enough to know that I deserve more than what I have settled for. I have grown, have pulled knowledge out of my brokenness, have truly taken a look at what I want, and what I need, and I refuse to accept anything less than that.