"…While it’s true you’re haunted by your past, it’s truer that you’ve traveled spectacularly far away from it. You swam across a wide and wild sea and you made it all the way to the other side. That it feels different here on this shore than you thought it would does not negate the enormity of the distance you traversed and the strength it took you to do it."
— Cheryl Strayed, Dear Sugar, 5/17/12 (via kbbsunnyfl)
(Source: psychotherapy, via kbbsunnyfl)
"To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket of your selfishness. But in that casket-safe, dark, motionless, airless-it will change. It will not be broken. But it will become unbreakable, inpenetrable, irredeemable."
— C.S. Lewis (via 11-april-showers)
(via sna-forever)
"To the world you are one person, but to one person you are the world. kbb"