The Strength In Our Scars
- missiehas quoted3 years ago
You are the one
who built your walls.
Don’t ever doubt for a second
that you have the capacity
to tear them down. - Boboboihas quoted3 years ago
The things that hurt you
may have left scars,
but they did not destroy you.
You survived,
and there is hope in that. - jzdegshas quotedlast year
If there is one thing I know, it is that life goes on. People change, and love transforms, and our hearts break and grow within us. The things we once wanted fade into new hope, we lose those we thought we would never lose, and we walk away from those we thought we would never walk away from. If there is one thing I know, it is that even through all of its confusion, even through the messiness of our existence, life continues. We push on. - jzdegshas quotedlast yearhappiness was never something you were going to find. Instead, it was something you were going to become.
Happiness is not to be found. It is to be created by us human beings who make choices for ourselves and for others.
- jzdegshas quotedlast yearDo not reach into yourself and pull out what life has planted within you. Instead, reach into yourself and cradle it. Give it a home within you. Let it stay for as long as it needs. Do not rush it out the door. Just be with it. Whatever it is —whether it is a name, or a memory, or an ache that you cannot seem to part with. Do not harden yourself to what has affected you so deeply in life.
- jzdegshas quotedlast yearBecause forgiveness is never about those who wronged you or broke you; it is never about those who could not see your value, who could not protect you. Forgiveness has always been about learning how to give yourself the closure you seek in others. Forgiveness has always been about learning how to accept the things you cannot change. Forgiveness has always been about learning how to befriend your past rather than making it an enemy.
Bcz forgiveness has always been about you—about us. Forgiveness is still considered as a choice. A choice that you must perceive in a right way. Forgiveness is never about forgetting, it is about accepting the things that are beyond our control. It is never about those who left you, who could not protect you, and those who doesn't see your worth—forgiveness is all about accepting who they choose to become for you.
- jzdegshas quotedlast yearYou’re going to realize it one day—that happiness was never about your job or your degree or being in a relationship. Happiness was never about following in the footsteps of all of those who came before you; it was never about being like the others. One day, you’re going to see it—that happiness was always about the discovery, the hope, the listening to your heart and following it wherever it chose to go. Happiness was always about being kinder to yourself; it was always about embracing the person you were becoming. One day, you will understand that happiness was always about learning how to live with yourself, that your happiness was never in the hands of others. It was always about you.
- jzdegshas quotedlast yearYou will find the places that inspire everything inside of you to surge and ache with the hope and the beauty of being alive.
- jzdegshas quotedlast yearThere will never be a formula. You will simply begin the process again when the sun rises. You will embark on daily journeys. You will take your steps forward. You will take your steps back. But you will always be moving, and that is what you need to celebrate.
There will never be a structured way on how we heal ourselves or make ourselves grow at a certain extent. You always begin the process when the sun rises. You will take your steps forward even though you have no certainty on what is ahead of you. And you will also take your steps back because not all decisions have to go in a way that you wanted it to be.
- jzdegshas quotedlast yearYou’ll figure out how to live with yourself, how to be your own companion. You’ll figure out how to be kind to even the most broken parts of yourself. See, you’ll figure out how to embrace life. How to truly accept it as it comes. And it won’t always be easy or clean-cut; it won’t always make sense, and you won’t always have control. But it will be yours.
