When you focus on directing your energy away from harm and toward healing, you feed the soul and starve the ego.
STEPHANIE BRIARI would throw down roots with you if I ever had the chance. We’d grow strong in tender shoots, and bloom in burning hands.
More Stephanie Briar Quotes
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It quietly stops my breath to realize that my greatest grand gesture, my last, best act of love was to let you go.
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Light finds you just as I once did: an accident that is no accident.
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If we are what we love, Then I am whatever you are made of.
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When I was a child, I used to fear monsters under the bed. I have since learned that most monsters are found within. And they are always worth fighting.
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Let yourself go a little wild, a little rough around through the edges; the human spirit wasn’t meant for carefully-curated perfection.
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I pressed the dress to my nose, and found what was left of your ghost. It was then that I remembered how to cry.
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The pain of your memory is sharp enough to be felt the nails raked along my back by somebody else.
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We usually seek the divine in the sky, But religion is best found on the ground. Nature is our true creator.
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Emotion = Energy in motion.
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As if flesh and skin and hands are any match for bullets. As if bones won’t crack in hails of powder and lead. As if rivers of blood are not the direct result of trigger fingers that bend but do not break on “bad days”.
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In the absence of you I look to the moon and pray that the stars light my way, too.
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How do you sleep soundly, knowing you traded roses for weeds?
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I am a phoenix living in a culture of vultures.
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Anxiety is living with an apple on your head and you imagine that everyone you know stands watching with a bow to shoot an arrow at it.
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Trauma has deep roots indeed, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t pull the weeds.
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