Most people want to save the entire world. It’s a lovely thought, and I’m not saying it’s not a noble pursuit-but it’s impossible to save everyone. You just have to pick your little corner of the world and focus your energy there. That’s the only way you will ever make a difference.
LANG LEAVI will celebrate this life of mine, with or without you. The moon does not need the sun to tell her she is already whole.
More Lang Leav Quotes
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When in truth, it is the transparency that kills you. The pain of seeing through to something you can never quite touch.
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Some pieces will sing to your present, others may echo of your past, and the rest could whisper of your future.
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Yes, we took it all for granted-but isn’t that such a blessed thing? When you’re not even thinking about what you have, because you never imagine you someday won’t.
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I want you to remember my lips beneath your fingers and how you told me things you never told another soul. I want you to know that I have kept sacred, everything you had entrusted in me and I always will.
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What I feel for you is at once the expression of language and the absence of it.
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There are days when the melancholy settles on you like a sudden change in weather. The kind of sadness that is intangible. Like the presence of an ache where you can’t pinpoint exactly where it hurts, you just know it does.
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I don’t know how you are so familiar to me-or why it feels less like I am getting to know you and more as though I am remembering who you are. How every smile, every whisper brings me closer to the impossible conclusion that I have known you before, I have loved you before-in another time, a different place, some other existence.
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Don’t let them tell you that your pain should be confined to the past, that it bears no relevance to the present.
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Here’s to those who wish us well, and the rest can go to hell!
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Because sooner or later, all kinds of love – crazy love, wild love- fade into the same thing. The love becomes old and predictable -safe.
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The sad thing is,” she said, “the moment you start to miss someone, it means they’re already gone.
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Be patient. Your voice will find its way into the world, not in one loud instance but a steady trickle that turns into a deluge.
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That’s the thing about writers – on one hand everything is sacred to them, but, on the other, nothing really is.
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You may grow to love this person but remember they are not yours to keep. Their purpose isn’t to save you but to show you how to save yourself.
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You can create something that is pure genius, but you have to get your timing right.
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