You matter. And there is a void in the symphony of life when you are silent. Jon Foreman, TEDx Talk: “Live It Like a Song”  (via h-o-r-n-g-r-y)

All my life, I thought of love as some kind of voluntary enslavement. Well, that’s a lie: freedom only exists when love is present. The person who gives him or herself wholly, the person who feels most free, is the person who loves most wholeheartedly. And the person who loves wholeheartedly feels free. Paulo Coelho […]

And I want to go so far as to say there is never a reason to be unkind. There may be reasons to disagree. There may be reasons to struggle; after all, two wills are merging into one. There are constant compromises and surrenders, but there is never a reason to be unkind. Ravi Zacharias  […]

Love yourself so much that when someone treats you wrong, you recognize it (via peachbliss)

Growth is painful. Change is painful.But nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don’t belong. Mandy Hale  (via h-o-r-n-g-r-y)

You can’t find intimacy—you can’t find home—when you’re always hiding behind masks. Intimacy requires a certain level of vulnerability. It requires a certain level of you exposing your fragmented, contradictory self to someone else. You running the risk of having your core self rejected and hurt and misunderstood. Junot Díaz (via kvtes)

At your weakest, you end up showing more strength; at your lowest, you are suddenly lifted higher than you’ve ever been. They all border one another, these opposites and show how quickly we can be altered. Cecelia Ahern, Thanks for the Memories (via wordsnquotes)