#23 That's Okay My Dear

The fact that you’re struggling doesn’t make you a burden.
It doesn’t make you unloveable or undesirable or undeserving of care.
It doesn’t make you too much or too sensitive or too needy.
It makes you human. Everyone struggles.
Everyone has a difficult time coping, and at times, we all fall apart.
During these times, we aren’t always easy to be around — and that’s okay.
No one is easy to be around one hundred percent of the time.
Yes, you may sometimes be unpleasant or difficult.
And yes, you may sometimes do or say things that make the people around you feel helpless or sad.
But those things aren’t all of who you are and they certainly don’t discount your worth as a human being.
The truth is that you can be struggling and still be loved.
You can be difficult and still be cared for.
You can be less than perfect, and still be deserving of compassion and kindness. 

- Daniell Koepke 

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#21 How would you want to be loved?

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“I want someone who will treat me like their favorite book and book character.
Someone who will sit down with me over tea or coffee with a genuine desire to understand me.
Someone who will grin when they hear my name, remembering my development.
Someone who knows my story already, yet still laughs when I retell it for the 3rd time, and cries at the painful parts even though the pain isn’t their own.
I want someone who will bookmark my dreams and make sure I get to them, one page of life at a time.
Someone who won’t just exchange me for a less damaged version when they notice the cracks in the binding, like my fake smile.
Someone who helps recover the lost pages of my heart that were torn out after my last attempts to love somebody.
Someone who isn’t content with me being alone, and longs for a sequel with them by my side.
I guess at the heart of it all, I want someone that will treat me like something worth salvaging.
I want someone that will help me believe that I am.”   

-- maxwelldpoetry, “How would you want to be loved?” 

#20 Someday

“I think that when enough time has passed, when you’ve survived that which you didn’t imagine you could, there’s a dignity in that. Something you can own. A pride in knowing the pain made you stronger. The pain made you fight to succeed. Someday, when I’m living my dreams, I’m going to think of all the things that broke my heart and I’m going to be thankful for them.”

-Mia Sheridan

#19 Unknown homesick

We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known. 

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#18 Take a breath

Breathe enough to accept the air unfiltered,

I don’t care what season it is,

experience the ability to live with consequences you may never understand;

caution can be the worst poison. 

- Rakishi cir. 1952.

#17 Untold

She longed to know what at that moment was passing in his mind; in what manner he thought of her, and whether, in defiance of everything, she was still dear to him. 

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#16 Apologize

If I am ignoring you, I apologize. I become distracted and will focus on one thing a while. Sometimes I’m just emotionally overwhelmed and I have to lay down for a while. I’m not ignoring you because it’s you it’s because life is distracting and hard and so sometimes I just need to stop talking to people and sometimes I do that suddenly.

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#13 Tell me.

What's left to say when every words been spoken?
What's left to see when our eyes won't open?
What's left to do when we've lost all hope?
What's left to broke when our heart's are broken? 

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#11 Let it go

Sometimes love just isn't enough. sometimes we have to let go of something that once meant the world to us. not because we want to. but because we have to. but life will keep going with or without them. life doesn't stop for you, or for anyone else. life is life. it’s hard, but there are those amazing moments that make you who you are. don’t sit around crying when you let someone go. someday you’ll be okay again. promise.

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I know I have to let it go, but sometimes it's really not that easy. 

#10 x

Memories and thoughts age, just as people do. But certain thoughts can never age, and certain memories can never fade.

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#9 Don't be afraid to make mistakes

I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes.

Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You’re doing things you’ve never done before, and more importantly, you’re Doing Something.

So that’s my wish for you, and all of us, and my wish for myself. Make New Mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody’s ever made before. Don’t freeze, don’t stop, don’t worry that it isn’t good enough, or it isn’t perfect, whatever it is: art, or love, or work or family or life.

Whatever it is you’re scared of doing, Do it.

Make your mistakes, next year and forever.

-Neil Gaiman

#8 Silence

“Why are we embarrassed by silence? What comfort do we find in all the noise?”

-Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie

#7 Fit In

I might appear confident and chatty, but I spend most of my time laughing at jokes I don’t find funny, saying things I don’t really mean - because at the end of the day that’s what we’re all trying to do: fit in, one way or another, desperately trying to pretend we’re all the same.

-Tabitha Suzuma 

#6 3.34am

Someone once told me that human beings have three dimensions: how you see yourself, how others see you, and how you want others to see you. The closer the distance between the three dimensions, the more at peace you are and the more stable you become.

-Marwa Rakha (The Poison Tree)

#5 Why

You say that you love rain, but you open your umbrella when it rains.

You say that you love the sun, but you find a shadow spot when the sun shines.

You say that you love the wind, but you close your windows when wind blows.

This is why I am afraid, you say that you love me too.

-William Shakespeare

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Ok, i chanced upon this chinese translation from weibo and i'm really amazed by it! Here it goes:

恋雨偏打伞，爱阳却遮凉。风来掩窗扉，叶公惊龙王。
片言只语短，相思谴倦长。郎君说爱我，不敢细思量。

#4 Define love

If I could hold your heart I would keep it safe. Even when I trip and fall, and even when I break down, I would hold your heart close to mine, so it doesn't see the same damage. When I bruise my knees and scrape my palms you’ll never have to fear, and even if I cry, I promise, you won’t need to shed a tear. Love is everlasting. Loyalty is intertwined with faith. As long as you want me I will be here, standing with my palms out, waiting with my heart plain in my eyes, and a smile on my face.

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#3 Doubt

We assume others show love the same way we do - and if they don’t, we worry it’s not there.

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The beauty of art

Go into the arts. I’m not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow , for heaven’s sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something. 

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I remember there was once I wished that I can't draw during secondary school time. I draw all the time. I don't know why, I just can't stop drawing. I keep drawing and drawing and neglect my school works eventually. My drawings were all over the places, on my textbooks,notebooks and even exam paper.  I think this explain why my mum was so angry and don't allow me to draw anymore. She actually threw away my drawings into the dustbin in front of me. Well, I took them back after she left, lol! I guess I put drawing as my  main priority that time and my academic results were so bad. I once regretted that I have this talent and I wish i can replace it with something else like a good memory that can help me in studying. I AM SO GLAD that my prayer didn't get answered last time, phew! Thinking back the thought that i had last time, it actually scared me, how can i make such a stupid wish. Although i don't draw so much like I did last time, but i still love drawing very much.  I guess the reason why I don't draw so often is just because of my laziness, lol!

#1 Afraid to love

Through the years you learn so much. You learn nothing lasts forever, and to appreciate people as often as possible because they could be gone in a second. You learn that sometimes it takes a few heart breaks to be happy. You realize that losing someone isn't the end of the world although the pain in your chest says other wise. And you learn that sometimes those movies where the girl has to watch the man she loves live his life happily without her are parts of reality.

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