Qotd Quotes & Sayings

The universe on your skin is empty
from all the silence on your tongue.
Forgive yourself. Let your body heal
from all the wounds you did not inflict
on yourself. Drop the sword you carry
on your shoulder for self-defense.
Lower the armor you hold high up
for protection. Those who harmed you
are not going to come back. Those who
have left never intended to return. — Akif Kichloo

every choice i have ever made after you existed
has been dependent on exactly
how close i can have you next to me
and how long i can get you to stay. — AVA.

hold company with yourself so sacred
that even when you are alone,
you are whole. — AVA.

you came in slowly like the fog
and consumed me. — AVA.

stay too close
and she will leave.
stay too far
and she will leave.

distance is too delicate a thing. — AVA.

It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane. — Philip K. Dick

some people are so deep
you fall into them
and you never stop falling. — AVA.

i over love.
i under love.

i am either a flood
or i am nothing. — AVA.

Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying. — Arthur C. Clarke

you wanted it all to make sense
and you wanted the most complicated answer,
but the answer is simple.
just be. — AVA.

no one needs love from you
more than you need love from you.

love yourself first,
and you will always be in love. — AVA.

When the night
comes to break my heart,
I think of you. — Akif Kichloo

i am awake and alive
and swollen and heavy
with love. — AVA.

you're going to love your way out of this.
out of the hurt.
out of the pain.

you're going to love your way out of it
and be free. — AVA.

everything i know about love
is that it hurts
and is almost always never returned
the way you want it to.

but i have hope
because i do not know everything. — AVA.

you have outgrown this skin.
stop trying to hold it in.
stop trying to hold it together.

let yourself break. — AVA.

love is myself in the mirror.
i will see love every time. — AVA.

They came and they left.
You cried, but you stood your ground.
You stayed tethered to hope as well as
committed to dignified dreams
and little victories of day-to-day life.

You felt different.
Then you started to change.
Your smile returned with reticence
before completely taking over your face.

Today, you are no longer afraid to let that smile be there,
and now you understand it was not about them.
It was never about anyone else.
This was about you from the day you were born.
This was about you learning to love yourself -
not letting the inferiority of the external corrupt
the piety of the internal.

This was your personal revolution.
This was the uprising of your lifetime.

And you won. — Akif Kichloo

I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat. — Rebecca West

oh, the heartbreakingly beautiful
tender weight of being human. — AVA.

i'm so hooked
on how your mind works,
on what you notice,
on everything that excites you.
i'm so caught up in
how you see the world,
how you see everything
and still offer up your love
for all to take it.

you give me a glimpse of your heart
and i can't tell you
how much you turn me on. — AVA.

The tragedy of love is in its ending,
the blessing - everything else.

No love ever deserves to end. — Akif Kichloo

things keep falling in and out of place.
this is the universe's way of taking care of me. — AVA.

Best Way to Stay Happy is to be busy. — Dipika Agarwal

woman--
another word for beginning.
another word for revolution.
another word for healing.
another word for being.
another word for me. — AVA.

i am a woman
and i am alone,
and i cannot tell
which one of the two
i love being more. — AVA.

Champions and winners conquer fear. But true masters conquer themselves. — Frederick Espiritu

i am soft again.
there is water and it surrounds me.
there is feeling and i can feel it.

i am awake and alive
and swollen and heavy with love.

i am changing
and i am loving change. — AVA.

i swallowed the syllables of your name
and i was full. — AVA.

we were never a match;
always a marvelous misfit. — Akif Kichloo

i am changing
and i am loving change. — AVA.

and sadness clung to me
because she did not know
how to be alone. — AVA.

i can't hold onto love.
i'm not gentle enough.

i always end up
crushing the thing
in between my fingertips. — AVA.

there's always been a little sadness inside my happiness.

i've never been able to separate the two. — AVA.

remember you are capable of the most powerful thing in the universe.

you are capable of love. — AVA.

my feelings tend to last longer
than my lovers do
and it's made a monster
out of my heart. — AVA.

i sometimes think i'm too in love with alone.
who could i love more than this peace? — AVA.

So often we confuse mistakes for soul mates, lessons for
lovers, and at the same time worthy life partners for one-night stands.

It's an epidemic. — Akif Kichloo

do not let anyone in
until they love you so fiercely,
you have no defense against their love. — AVA.

we get brave.
we move.
we believe.
we keep going. — AVA.

you giver of light.
you lover of love.

you beautiful
beautiful
human being
you. — AVA.

i am like the moon--
sometimes, full.
sometimes, black.

sometimes,
forever and ever alone. — AVA.

i open for you like a flower.
i let you in like a new day. — AVA.

there is a difference between
loneliness and solitude,
one will empty you and
one will fill you.

you have the power to choose. — AVA.

i just want to be honest about my feelings without destroying everything. — AVA.