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01Undated

Stop trying to be less of who you are. Let this time in your life cut you open and drain all of the things that are holding you back.

Jennifer Elisabeth / quote

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02Undated

I can do this… I can start over. I can save my own life and I’m never going to be alone as long as I have stars to wish on and people to still love.

Jennifer Elisabeth / quote

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03Undated

I could watch him do this until morning — never asking questions and never interrupting his work. I worship quietly — his intense focus and attention to detail and then, out of no where, I realize the inconvenient, inappropriate truth: ‘I love this man… and it has swallowed me.

Jennifer Elisabeth / quote

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04Undated

Your personal truth is your gift to the world.

Jennifer Elisabeth / quote

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05Undated

Don’t worry if people think you’re crazy. You are crazy. You have that kind of intoxicating insanity that lets other people dream outside of the lines and become who they’re destined to be.

Jennifer Elisabeth / quote

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06Undated

I met a boy whose eyes showed me that the past, present and future were all the same thing.

Jennifer Elisabeth / quote

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07Undated

For so many years, I couldn’t understand why every time I thought that someone finally loved me, like… for real, they would eventually turn to vapor. Every person whom I’ve ever loved is trapped inside of my chest. I’ve breathed all of them in so deeply that I’ve nearly choked and died on every soul that I’ve ever given myself to.

Jennifer Elisabeth / quote

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08Undated

I want to be the best version of myself for anyone who is going to someday walk into my life and need someone to love them beyond reason.

Jennifer Elisabeth / quote

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09Undated

Let this time in your life cut you open and drain all of the things that are holding you back. I’m going to help you forgive the things that you won’t let yourself forget.

Jennifer Elisabeth / quote

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10Undated

I look out into the water and up deep into the stars. I beg the sparkling lanterns of light to cure me of myself — my past and the kaleidoscope of mistakes, failures and wrong turns that have stacked unbearable regret upon my shoulders.

Jennifer Elisabeth / quote

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11Undated

Does our purpose on Earth directly link to the people whom we end up meeting? Are our relationships and experiences actually the required dots that connect and then lead us to our ultimate destinies?

Jennifer Elisabeth / quote

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12Undated

I fantasize the night sky to be like a cosmic blue print of my life as I close my eyes and unbutton my heart…. just in case anyone up there is listening.

Jennifer Elisabeth / quote

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13Undated

I’ve grown up defined by this desperate, undeniable, ‘can’t breathe’ kind of space inside of myself and I’m afraid that the diagnosis is fatal.

Jennifer Elisabeth / quote

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14Undated

Something, somewhere, knows what’s best for me and promises to keep sending me people and experiences to light my way as long as I live in gratitude and keep paying attention to the signs.

Jennifer Elisabeth / quote

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15Undated

I’ve always seen this in you, ever since you were a little girl — this hunger to love other people into their highest selves and it’s what has made me irreversibly and just so forever in love with you.

Jennifer Elisabeth / quote

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16Undated

Please… Whoever you are, whatever you are… I believe in you even though I don’t completely understand you. I feel you around me even though I can’t exactly describe what I’m feeling. Sometimes things happen to me and I know that you’re there and I’m humbled by the lack of coincidence that exists in the world. Whatever you want from me, it’s yours — just please help me. You know how I get when I lose control, and I find myself constantly being pulled back there these days.

Jennifer Elisabeth / quote

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17Undated

I feel a resurgence of my 6-year-old self… that little warrior, goddess of a girl reminding me of who I was when I was little, before the world got its hands on me.

Jennifer Elisabeth / quote

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18Undated

I know that this process of ‘me changing my life’ doesn’t just end once I set fire to this list of things I hate about myself. Tonight isn’t as much of a new beginning as it is a violent end and I know the real work hasn’t even started yet.

Jennifer Elisabeth / quote

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19Undated

I’m going to follow this invisible red thread until I find myself again… until I finally figure out… who I’m meant to be.

Jennifer Elisabeth / quote

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20Undated

If ever I was running, it was towards you.

Jennifer Elisabeth / quote

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21Undated

I love him in ways that I can’t explain to other people. They don’t understand… it’s not their fault.

Jennifer Elisabeth / quote

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22Undated

I really believe that there is an invisible red thread tied between him and me, and that it has stretched and tangled for years — across oceans and lifetimes. I know that it won’t break because our souls are tied.

Jennifer Elisabeth / quote

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23Undated

Everything hurts right now and nothing is helping because as the pain is getting worse — so is the love.

Jennifer Elisabeth / quote

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24Undated

I just want your voice aimed at me again. I want to absorb the direction of your eyes…

Jennifer Elisabeth / quote

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