Why is it that you have more practice describing weaknesses than strengths? It’s not your fault they never went to the lengths to teach you how to value your strengths.
RENEE STONEI want to tell them how tired I am because I don’t think it shows. But maybe it’s the same for them – all strangers to the weight each of us carries. So alone, we carry these loads.
More Renee Stone Quotes
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I wonder why I’m so empathetic, why people perceive me to be so kind. I don’t want my heart to burn when there’s no one burning mine.
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I bear the fruits of your memory in the expression of my art for that is what you gave to the world.
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Reading has always been my sweetest escape, but I write to convey that which I want to escape or what scares me to say, even if it’s something positive.
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They hit like waves, the memories of those old summer days. Memories you’d have thought to erase, but they crash ashore without haste.
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I grew up learning history about communities that would support their people (the idea that it takes a village), but all I see are so many people left on their own.
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It’s really hard to grow up wanting to provide people with resources and support and realizing that while I can and will do that – I also need more than I thought I would.
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And so, my ‘What if’s’ became ‘What’s next?’
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We’re so distant, words can’t save us.
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I don’t think anyone really gets my attachment to the little things. They call it insignificant and say that it is what it is. I think it all adds up to what we stand for. The little things add up to something meaningful and so does the complacency.
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Staring into the abyss full of art – hoping for the return of a glimmer or a spark.
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People struggle with words that spill and overwhelm you because they themselves are sinking.
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I wish you could feel it when it’s dark at night, and I think of you when I pass the streetlights. But I know you feel the care without me being there.
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I’m writing on a blank page full of chances and hope.
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When the silence fades and now sounds begin to bloom, I will grow to feel calm again. Healthily this time.
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My body is a field site of muscle memory and weathered bones.
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