Trisha Haidar on shrink
Trisha Haidar51 quotes“You are not required to make yourself digestible for others.”
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If you find it difficult to swim today perhaps it is enough just to float.
Trisha HaidarTrisha Haidar It is beautifully bright outside today but all I can feel is a deep darkness within.
Trisha HaidarTrisha Haidar Focus less on what it isn’t and more on what already is.
Trisha HaidarTrisha Haidar You really weren’t that special until I made you to be.
Trisha HaidarTrisha Haidar Sometimes you have to be their source of strength.
Trisha HaidarTrisha Haidar You do not have to deny yourself the little joys anymore.
Trisha HaidarTrisha Haidar I am perfectly happy just the way I am.
Trisha HaidarTrisha Haidar Today I will walk with the same confidence I see in others.
Trisha HaidarTrisha Haidar It is time we celebrated successes of every size.
Trisha HaidarTrisha Haidar Darling if you want to reach the stars you have to risk the fall.
Trisha HaidarTrisha Haidar I’ve stayed in the dark for so long I’ve become afraid of the light.
Trisha HaidarTrisha Haidar Its okay to enjoy the stillness and just live.
Trisha HaidarTrisha Haidar You’ve got the kind of smile that could light an entire night sky.
Trisha HaidarTrisha Haidar Please don’t apologize for everything you’ve worked so hard for.
Trisha HaidarTrisha Haidar Maybe I expected you to be something that you were just never going to be.
Trisha HaidarTrisha Haidar You make me feel like a teenager in love again.
Trisha HaidarTrisha Haidar
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Someone rejected you does not mean you are not worthy. Maybe they can’t afford to be with you.
Jacklyn TysonJacklyn Tyson I will love you from afar it’s better this way because close up it hurts too much.
Melissa AndersonMelissa Anderson Maybe if you hold me tight, our love won’t be as shallow.
Mira R. AridiMira R. Aridi Sometimes a person is in peace & in the piece at the same time.
Jessica CollinsJessica Collins Between day and night there was a moment of silence.
Frode GaslandFrode Gasland But doesn’t it hurt to feel so much and pretend not to?
Brad NeatonBrad Neaton Admire your sweet way of glowing; your passionate way of flowing.
Ana SoulfulAna Soulful Darling, you are a warrior, for even though each day feels like a battle, you keep fighting and live on.
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The heart of a hurt child can shrink so that forever afterward it is hard and pitted as the seed of a peach. Or again, the heart of such a child may fester and swell until it is a misery to carry within the body, easily chafed and hurt by the most ordinary things.
Carson McCullersCarson McCullers I had that. I could almost feel the miles between us shrinking, as if we were at two ends of some invisible elastic thread.
Jojo MoyesJojo Moyes No matter what you do next, the world needs your energy, your passion, your impatience for progress. Don’t shrink from risk. And tune out those critics and cynics.
Tim CookTim Cook It’s strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary.
Veronica RothVeronica Roth I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence.
Jacques Yves CousteauJacques Yves Cousteau Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.
Niccolo MachiavelliNiccolo Machiavelli I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence.
Jacques-Yves CousteauJacques-Yves Cousteau Whenever I’m with other people, part of me shrinks a little. Only when I am alone can I fully enjoy my own company.
Alan BradleyAlan Bradley