Sometimes you have to keep smiling even when you are broken inside.

Sometimes you have to keep smiling even when you are broken inside. Sometimes you pretend to be normal even when everything is against you. Sometimes you have to show that you are strong for the people who love you because they can’t do anything without you, but knowing you are there to support them they will try… Just so they don’t let you down ~ Neena Gupta

“Listen to God with a broken heart. He is not only the doctor who mends it, but also the father who wipes away the tears.” ~Criss Jami

“To be rejected by someone doesn't mean you should also reject yourself or that you should think of yourself as a lesser person. It doesn't mean that nobody will ever love you anymore. Remember that only ONE person has rejected you at the moment, and it only hurt so much because to you, that person's opinion symbolized the opinion of the whole world, of God.” ~ Jocelyn Soriano

“Who fixes broken people? Is it only other broken people, ones who've already been ruined? And do we need to be fixed? It was the messiness and hurt in our pasts that drove us, and that same hurt connected us at a subdermal level, the kind of scars written so deeply in your cells that you can't even see them anymore, only recognize them in someone else.” ~ Leah Raeder

Quiet people have a lot to say

Sometimes quiet people really do have a lot to say. They're just being careful about who they open up to.

“Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it. - Amir” ~ Khaled Hosseini

“It's quiet now. So quiet that can almost hear other people's dreams.” ~ Gayle Forman

“In order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for constructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear of being alone.” ~ Rollo May

“Just because you don't say much doesn't mean people don't notice you. It's actually the quiet ones who often draw the most attention. There's this constant whirlwind of motion and sound all around, and then there's the quiet one, the eye of the storm.” ~ Amy Efaw

Relationships are like birds

Relationships are like birds if you hold tightly they die, if you hold loosely they fly but if you hold with care they remain with you forever.

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it. ~ John Lennon

The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them. ~ Thomas Merton

You have people come into your life shockingly and surprisingly. You have losses that you never thought you'd experience. You have rejection and you have learn how to deal with that and how to get up the next day and go on with it. ~ Taylor Swift

I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies. ~ Pietro Aretino