"people want you to be happy, don't keep serving them your pain"

-- Rumi

#Pain Quotes #People Quotes #Want Quotes

“But I make the observation that no one of us would do things exactly alike.”
“we perceive silence where, in fact, there is a muffler.”

Source : Louise Bernikow (1981). “Among women”, HarperCollins
“Remember, in our inmost being, we are all completely lovable because spirit is love. Beyond what anyone can make you think or feel about yourself, your unconditioned spirit stands, shining with a love nothing can tarnish.”
“Like all really strong-minded women, on whom everybody flops, she adored being bossed about. It was so restful.”

Source : Stella Gibbons (1977). “Cold comfort farm”, Penguin (Non-Classics)
“Things like rhyming - it just wasn't falling out of my head that way. So I started to get quite freaked out that I just couldn't write anymore. And then I just kind of went with it, and thought that, "This is the way that my brain's working," in a more direct way, then I should just try it like that for this album. And follow it. Just went with the writer's block, almost - it's a strange thing.”

Source : "'Our intention was clearer' - Daughter talks battling writer’s block and exploring new influences". Interview With Brian Shultz, substreammagazine.com. April 8, 2016.
“For me, I was raped in my own dorm bed. Since then, it has basically become fraught for me, and I feel like I've carried the weight of what happened there with me everywhere since then.”

Source : "Columbia University Student Will Drag Her Mattress Around Campus Until Her Rapist Is Gone" by Sarah Barness, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 3, 2014.
“I lay around and wonder why you were always there for me.”
“You can want and want and want, but if he doesn't want you back ... you might as well wish the sky were red.”

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