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“People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings most of all. People talk about how great love is, but that’s bullshit. Love hurts. Feelings are disturbing. People are taught that pain is evil and dangerous. How can they deal with love if they’re afraid to feel? Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they’re wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength in the experience of pain. It’s all in how you carry it. That’s what matters. Pain is a feeling. Your feelings are a part of you. Your own reality. If you feel ashamed of them, and hide them, you’re letting society destroy your reality. You should stand up for your right to feel your pain.”

(Source: quote-book)

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“The fear is there, all right. It comes to us in many different forms, at different times, and overwhelms us. But the most frightening thing we can do at such times is to turn our backs on it, to close our eyes. For then we take the most precious thing inside us and surrender it to something else.”

“Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get — only what you are expecting to give — which is everything. What you will receive in return varies. But it really has no connection with what you give. You give because you love and cannot help giving.”

(Source: kari-shma)

meloriecelery:

bookmania:

from Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk

Wow, Chuck Palahniuk, you gave the words to something I knew so well but never knew how to describe. I guess it’s time to slow it down and enjoy the now. I can’t live in nostalgia anymore because I was “too busy” to really enjoy it the first time around. There’s ONLY one time around.

“The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can’t be any large-scale revolution until there’s a personal revolution, on an individual level. It’s got to happen inside first.”

(Source: quote-book)

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“Change is never easy. You fight to hold on. You fight to let go.”

(Source: kari-shma)

Meow!!! {*}

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