Do you know what it feels like to be wounded and told that you caused the wound to yourself by choosing to be where the harm landed?
NAJWA ZEBIANMy home will never welcome me if I don’t welcome me.
More Najwa Zebian Quotes
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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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Own your healing as you’ve owned your pain.
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A heart does turn cold unless it’s been treated with coldness for a while.
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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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I spent more time getting over you than I spent falling in love with you.
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If you ever get the chance to treat them the way they treated you, I hope you choose to walk away and do better.
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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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Life is not fair, but we can choose to be fair humans even if life or other humans choose to be unfair to us.
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These mountains that you are carrying, you were only supposed to climb.
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Take responsibility for the choices you could have made but restrained yourself from making.
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Don’t see the worst in a person and expect them to see the best in you.
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Respect me, not because I respect you, but because I deserve your respect.
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Your opinion of me does not equal my self-worth.
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When pain knocks on your door, welcome it. Let it in. Sit with it. Have tea with it. Understand it. Then let it leave.
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To you, it is much easier to not say a word. To me, I choke on my words if I do not say them. What truly hurts me is that you know that your silence infects a storm in my mind yet you choose it oh so easily.
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