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Please leave format credit to 1986! Never rest until you have

Never rest until you have uncovered your essential self. Remember that. Somewhere, deep inside you, hidden by all sorts of fears and worries and petty little thoughts, is a clean pure being made of radiant colours.

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posted March 25, 2016 at 12:44pm UTC tagged with inspirational, shirleyjackson, quote

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he'd been right all along. He was more than just my friend. That's why it was so impossible to tell him goodbye – because I was in love with him. Too. I loved him, much more than I should, and yet, still nowhere near enough. I was in love with him, but it was not enough to change anything; it was only enough to hurt us both more. To hurt him worse than I ever had. I didn't care about more than that – than his pain. I more than deserved whatever pain this caused me. I hoped it was bad. I hoped I would really suffer. In this moment, it felt as though we were the same person. His pain had always been and would always be my pain – now his joy was my joy. I felt joy, too, and yet his happiness was somehow also pain. Almost tangible – it burned against my skin like acid, a slow torture.
When the night has been too lonely and the road has been too long and you think that love is only for the lucky and the strong... just remember in the winter, far beneath the bitter snow, lies the seed that, with the sun's love, in the spring becomes the rose.

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