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 ZEBIANI am no longer defined by what happened to me, but by who I am.
More Najwa Zebian Quotes
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A heart does turn cold unless it’s been treated with coldness for a while.
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The truth can be seen, but it is not believed until it is openly said.
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Respect me, not because I respect you, but because I deserve your respect.
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Self-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.
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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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Being a leader is about leading your own mind’s logic and leading your heart’s reason. Be cognizant of the decisions that your mind and heart make, and your life will be much more meaningful and rewarding.
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Own your healing as you’ve owned your pain.
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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 may have been successful at giving, but I never know when to stop.
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We don’t make ourselves compassionate; we are born compassionate.
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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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Never wish them pain. That’s not who you are. If they caused you pain, they must have pain inside. Wish them healing. That’s what they need.
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If I only give you what you deserve, at least keep me away from what I don’t deserve.
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Whatever you do, do it with purpose.
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I spent more time getting over you than I spent falling in love with you.
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You may be a disaster for a day, a month, or a year. Just don’t be a disaster forever.
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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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The reality you live in is partially up to you. The fantasy you live in is entirely up to you.
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I am broken beyond repair. There is no going back to the person I was before. There is rebirth, rebuilding, reinventing, and soul stitching with gold that needs to happen.
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Letting go does not mean that you are giving up or that you are weak. It could just mean that you are no longer allowing what hurts you to control you.
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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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These mountains that you are carrying, you were only supposed to climb.
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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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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?
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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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If they don’t appreciate your presence, they may never recognize your absence.
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