In fact, crying at appropriate times is one of the biggest signs of mental strength, as people who are struggling often find it difficult to release … - Brianna Wiest

Nobody cries at a funeral because the world will be missing out on another pretty face. They cry because the world is missing another heart, another soul, another person. Don’t wait until it’s too late to focus on what will actually matter: creating something that lasts far beyond your body.

Being in love with somebody that you only used to know is like falling in love with a book (which sounds like a dumb example but people really do fall in love with them). The point is: You can love it all you want, but it’s a story that runs parallel to yours. At the end of the day it’s static. It’s memory. It’s a sentence and you can’t change it. It ends how it ends. It says what it says.

You think your past defines you, and worse, you think that it is an unchangeable reality, when really, your perception of it changes as you do.