wunderwand.

“Don’t be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.”

“Difficult doesn’t mean impossible. It simply means you have to work hard.”

““I spent so many years trying to fall in love with the people around me, I forgot to fall in love with the girl in the mirror.””

“She believed, of course … because without something to believe in, life would be intolerable.”

“To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.”

“They say death is hardest on the living. It’s tough to actually say goodbye. Sometimes it’s impossible. You never really stop feeling the loss. It’s what makes things so bittersweet. We leave little bits of ourselves behind, little reminders, a lifetime of memories, photos, trinkets, things to remember us by even when we’re gone.”

“You get a strange feeling when you’re about to leave a place. Like you’ll not only miss the people you love but you’ll miss the person you are now at this time and this place, because you’ll never be this way ever again.”

“How often has the timing been wrong? How often have we had to move along like we didn’t feel something?”

“The worst thing about moving on is pretending that you’re happy, that you’re free to do whatever you want, that you have more time for achieving your goals. It takes a while to recover from a person you truly loved.”

“This year I learned to be selfish. Selfish with my time, my heart, my feelings, my mind and most importantly myself. I spent entirely too much time feeling sorry for the things I couldn’t change, wishing for things I didn’t have, and begging for people who did not deserve me. It has taken me two decades to realize I am a prize worth winning, I am a caviar dinner not a gas station hot dog. This year I’ve lost people I thought I couldn’t live without and given myself everything I needed. Next year, I hope I can learn to love myself.”

“Have you ever lost someone you love and wanted one more conversation, one more chance to make up for the time when you thought they would be here forever? If so, then you know you can go your whole life collecting days, and none will outweigh the one you wish you had back.”

“Maybe I wanted to cause you the same hurt that you had caused me. Maybe that was the awfulness of it all. Or maybe I just wanted to forget. Forget the way that you had taken my joy and twisted it into something ugly. Maybe I wanted to relearn to hope and love and to not be scared of it all. Maybe I just wanted to move on and let go of whatever was making me hold on.”

“That’s how you know you love someone, I guess, when you can’t experience anything without wishing the other person were there to see it, too.”