"Someone can be madly in love with you and still not be ready. They can love you in a way you have never been loved and still not join you on the bridge. And whatever their reasons you must leave. Because you never ever have to inspire anyone to meet you on the bridge. You never ever have to convince someone to do the work to be ready. There is more extraordinary love, more love that you have never seen, out here in this wide and wild universe. And there is the love that will be ready."

- Nayyirah Waheed

“The way to love someone is to lightly run your finger over that person’s soul until you find a crack, and then gently pour your love into it.” -Keith Miller

"Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know." 
                                                                                          -Pema Chodron

"The hardest thing in the world is to simplify your life. It’s so easy to make it complex. What’s important is leading an examined life." 
- Yvon Chouinard, 180 Degrees South (via AWTW)

❝ If you can love the wrong one so much, just imagine how much you can love the right one. ❞

—— Comment on a Humans Of New York post