Look how wildflowers bloom from your skin. So why hold back those tears when your soil needs them?
ALYCE TAYLOR
ALYCE TAYLOR
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Alyce Taylor54 quotes“Look how wildflowers bloom from your skin. So why hold back those tears when your soil needs them?”
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I stepped into love with grace. I stepped out of love with grace. The beginning was beautiful. The ending was beautiful.
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Alyce TaylorAlyce Taylor My head screamed. I want to make them burn the way they did to me. My heart cried that’s not who you are.
Alyce TaylorAlyce Taylor Don’t strive to become more. Strive to become whole.
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Alyce TaylorAlyce Taylor I can feel hope beginning to sprout from all parts of me that were once punctured.
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Alyce TaylorAlyce Taylor It’s time for that spark that twinkles inside your stomach to become a roaring forest fire.
Alyce TaylorAlyce Taylor I have died and rebirth a million times inside this body, and I have met a million people because of it.
Alyce TaylorAlyce Taylor Take refuge in your own arms. Collapse into the protection of your own body. It’s the safest home you will ever know.
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Forgiveness comes after understanding & understanding comes after acceptance.
Tom MetcafeTom Metcafe Someday your pen will write a revolution. Until then, write your pain.
Fareena AliyaFareena Aliya Time is precious. So are the people in your life. So love and be loved. Because tomorrow is never promised.
Jenny AJenny A Thank you for still being there for yourself. For being strong. For being resilient. Keep going.
Yohan AcostaYohan Acosta There will never be a day, I am not thankful for the fire you brought to my life that still warms me to the bones.
Mark AnthonyMark Anthony You could have shook my whole world luckily I became aware, and I took a turn.
Emma SchippersEmma Schippers Be strong enough to bloom even in the storm.
Safna SulaimanSafna Sulaiman There is magic in the minuscule.
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Dead people receive more flowers than the living ones because regret is stronger than gratitude.
Anne FrankAnne Frank Be like the flower, turn your faces to the sun.
Khalil GibranKhalil Gibran If your hair’s too busy for flowers, your shirt’s a good spot for ’em!
Dolly PartonDolly Parton A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in – what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo God created the world with a great variety of flowers of all colours.
Pope FrancisPope Francis I love you as the plant that never blooms but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers.
Pablo NerudaPablo Neruda I like it when a flower or a little tuft of grass grows through a crack in the concrete. It’s so fuckin’ heroic.
George CarlinGeorge Carlin Every flower has its beauty, which is unique.
Pope FrancisPope Francis