If you spend your life sparing peopleās feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you canāt distinguish what should be respected in them.
Quote from F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night & The Last Tycoon Read More Ā»
But I stayed up thinking about how I’ve been lying to him, no less than I lie to myself in my pre-sleep ritual. And I lied to him again just as we were growing more intimate than ever and he asked me about my scar.
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You canāt selectively numb your anger, any more than you can turn off all lights in a room, and still expect to see the light.
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But I did feel the vertigo of deathās invitation, beckoning me towards the dark waters below. Only a newfound perspective and desire steadied my wavering soul. I came to realize, just in time, that suicide was far too easy ā and obscenely cowardly ā after someone I knew, not even half my age, had been through so much worse and still marched gloriously on.
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Inside of all of us there is the need and the desire to be heard, to have our innermost thoughts, feelings and desires expressed for others to hear, to see and to understand. We all want to matter to someone, to leave a mark. Writers just take those thoughts, feelings and desires and express them in such a way that the reader not only reads them but feels them as well.
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A man is NOT weak if he cries. A man is NOT a punk if he cries. A man is NOT acting like a little b*tch if he cries. Heās a Man! And heās allowed to have and show his true feelings without feeling less than. Ladies, some of you need to do better. Learn to be compassionate, loving, supportive, and understanding. Thereās NOTHING wrong with a man being vulnerable. I encourage you to be his joy, peace, and his safe place. Lift him up and be mindful NOT to tear him down. If you truly care for and love your man, do and say everything with love. Let him know that itās okay to cry and that he doesnāt have to pretend to be okay when heās not. Real men DO cry! They experience sadness, disappointments, pain, and many other feelings. A man shouldnāt have to suppress his emotions. Thatās pure nonsense! A man that can cry, smile, and let his guards down is a keeper in my book. I couldnāt imagine acting hard all of the time. Thatās so unfair! Ladies, strive to be a Queen of substance. PEACE.
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She was somehow this damaged creature I had fortuitously encountered along my path and now cared about as a result. Granted, I didn’t cause her harm, as I did with Icarus, but I somehow began to feel responsible for her welfare.
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I recall certain moments, let us call them icebergs in paradise, when after having had my fill of her āafter fabulous, insane exertions that left me limp and azure-barredāI would gather her in my arms with, at last, a mute moan of human tenderness (her skin glistening in the neon light coming from the paved court through the slits in the blind, her soot-black lashes matted, her grave gray eyes more vacant than everāfor all the world a little patient still in the confusion of a drug after a major operation)āand the tenderness would deepen to shame and despair, and I would lull and rock my lone light Lolita in my marble arms, and moan in her warm hair, and caress her at random and mutely ask her blessing, and at the peak of this human agonized selfless tenderness (with my soul actually hanging around her naked body and ready to repent), all at once, ironically, horribly, lust would swell againāand ‘oh, no,’ Lolita would say with a sigh to heaven, and the next moment the tenderness and the azureāall would be shattered.
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I want to drag knives over my skin, just to feel something other than shame, but I’m not even brave enough for that
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What it means to be authentic:- to be more concerned with truth than opinions- to be sincere and not pretend- to be free from hypocrisy: “walk your talk”- to know who you are and to be that person- to not fear others seeing your vulnerabilities- being confident to walk away from situations where you can’t be yourself- being awake to your own feelings- being free from others’ opinions of you- accepting and loving yourself
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