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.
RENEE STONEI can assure you that I don’t wake up every day with a smile upon my face, and the distance from happiness in the morning isn’t set at a constant rate.
More Renee Stone Quotes
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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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I write poems of the past; they reveal the reasons we didn’t last.
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Healing means looking within when you want to move on. Healing means letting go when your grip is too tight.
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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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I still have a scar from the time someone said, ‘Sometimes love isn’t enough.’
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I can’t take it all in or else I’ll grow cold when the heat already escapes my fingers and toes.
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I 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.
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Somewhere the silence resonates, the clutter clears, and you’re set to start again.
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The thought of you having to try hurts because it feels like you should have known to let me go before you grabbed ahold.
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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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Let go of the honey-sweet lies for the bittersweet truths.
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To be understood is to be on part of the path to inclusivity.
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Flowers crown her with thorns, keeping her mind entrapped in a garden of lies – guarding her mind.
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You are chaos in my heart – clogging up my arteries. I can’t move on or bring in more love than what was at the start
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If I could reverse time, I would spend more time looking into what ailed my loved ones – would have learned more about medical gaslighting.
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