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I am proud of the way my heart keeps beating, keeps believing, keeps fighting. I am proud of who I am.

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You may be sensitive, but you’re a damn fighter. You’re strong. You have a backbone, a brain, and a heart that is forever absorbing the energy from the people around you.

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In a world where people are so damn scared to love, you never change.

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Even if you wear some of the thickest skin, you are not invincible to all of the world’s pain. Nobody is.

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Do not be tainted by others.
Their indifference
is not a fault of yours.

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We stopped looking at feelings as beautiful and natural ways of expression and labeled them inconvenient. The more emotions you feel, the less stable you are, they say.

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You are totally capable of crushing on two people at once. Because the feels…duh.

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You cannot have a deep heart and not have an equally deep intellect, or so the saying goes.

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Ideas are passed over amid scrutiny of the exact words used to express them. We’re increasingly divided, and all hope for truly constructive discussion might be falling apart entirely.

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You bump into an end table on the way out the door and you briefly stop to say “excuse me,” because you wouldn’t want that end table to think that you were the kind of rude homeowner who doesn’t care about his or her furniture.