Trauma has deep roots indeed, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t pull the weeds.
STEPHANIE BRIARWhen you focus on directing your energy away from harm and toward healing, you feed the soul and starve the ego.
More Stephanie Briar Quotes
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The glint of mischief in your eyes is the flint in my matchstick. Striking; always this close to igniting.
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The pain of your memory is sharp enough to be felt the nails raked along my back by somebody else.
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Standing in your power scares a lot of people. You become something formidable, intimating, and aspirational all at once.
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Stop accepting abstract noun love. Real love is always action verb.
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The search for external sources is nothing compared to internal forces.
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Let yourself go a little wild, a little rough around through the edges; the human spirit wasn’t meant for carefully-curated perfection.
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Our memories lurch to a reluctant halt in their funeral march, so I can pour salt over them one last time.
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We usually seek the divine in the sky, But religion is best found on the ground. Nature is our true creator.
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In my dreams we got past the parking lot; you took me past the old, oak door, led me up onto the vacant altar, and offered me to every god whose name you invoked as you worshipped my body.
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You’re preserved inside of me; cadaversque. I both acquiesce and atrophy because of it.
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Emotion = Energy in motion.
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“Ashes”, we once thought, but the embers in our eyes might have bought us time.
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I erected cities with adoration on my tongue and you burnt mine down in the wake of your love.
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Our story bleeds from my eyes until I cannot tell the stars from streetlights.
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Your darkness does not scare me, nor will I run from you; like a star, I’m falling for the phases of your moon.
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