Don’t break a bird’s wings and then tell it to fly. Don’t break a heart and then tell it to love.
NAJWA ZEBIANSelf-love is loving yourself exactly as you’d love the person you love the most. And that love actually feels like love and looks like meeting your own needs.
More Najwa Zebian Quotes
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You stayed a short while, but you made me want to write about love, not heartbreak, again. Thank you.
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You don’t need to explain why you’re protecting your soul from harm. You really don’t.
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Today I decided to forgive you. Not because you apologized, or because you acknowledged the pain that you caused me, but because my soul deserves peace.
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It is your choice to either stay halfway through or to continue your journey once you start it, to reach that destination of the person you know you can be.
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If you love someone, you love them. You don’t allow your pride to stop you from expressing your love to them.
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For them to see you shine, you must stay far away, for you are just like the sun, when you are too close, you light makes them blind. And when you are too far, they seek you. So let them seek you.
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I fell in love with you the day you showed me your soul. And I spent days, months, and a year and part of a year realizing that you covered your soul again because you could not handle the love that I was touching you with.
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Don’t judge people and expect them to stand by your side.
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I am no longer defined by what happened to me, but by who I am.
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Letting go does not mean that you are giving up ir that you are weak. It could just mean that you are no longer allowing what hurts you to control you.
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I may have been successful at giving, but I never know when to stop.
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You can draw a path for your life and have all of your goals set. You can change yourself as much as possible and change things around you just to reach those goals.
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It was the weirdest thing ever. I said to myself: why are people always so okay with not having me in their lives?
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Own your healing as you’ve owned your pain.
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You were my home for so long. Now I realize that humans cannot be homes. If homes can leave, then they are not homes.
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