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Maybe I'm A Puzzle Still Trying To Find All My Pieces

My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that and I intend to end up there.
Rania Naim
November 29, 2016
“I am tired of being taken for granted. If only I could get back a fraction of what I give. But my efforts go unrecognized, and my soul keeps wishing to be noticed, to be valued; to be understood.”
— Lang Leav, Misunderstood
Tagged: Poetry, Poems, Lang Leav, Misunderstood, Invisible, Taken For Granted, Relationships
“It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s longing.  It doesn’t interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love, for your dream, for the adventure of being alive.”
— Oriah, The Invitation
Tagged: inspiration, Depth, Pain, beauty, Poetry
“Next time I'll be braver, I'll be my own savior, when the thunder calls to me. Next time I'll be braver, I'll be my own savior, standing on my own two feet. ”
— Adele, Turning Tables
Tagged: Song Lyrics, Songs, strength, Moving On, Bravery, Adele
“The useless days will add up to something. The shitty waitressing jobs. The hours writing in your journal. The long meandering walks. The hours reading poetry and story collections and novels and dead people’s diaries and wondering about sex and God and whether you should shave under your arms or not. These things are your becoming.”
— Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
Tagged: Life, Journey, purpose, Faith, Hope, Dreams
“Maybe you scare them because you don’t need them. Because they know you can survive without them, because they know that you won’t wait for them.”
— Rania Naim, Maybe You Scare Them Because You’re Honest
Tagged: Honesty, Love, Relationships, strength, Fearless, Independent
“Are you like me? Do you give too much, too quickly? Do you throw yourself blindly at the world, thinking it will always open its arms up to you?”
— Lang Leav, Are You Alive Or Just Pretending?
Tagged: Life, Living Life To The Fullest, Lang Leav, Poetry, Poems, Reckless
“I can read your eyes. I can read your heart. You are going to fall in love. And suffer. ”
— Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept: A Novel of Forgiveness
Tagged: Love, Suffering, Falling In Love, Paulo Coelho
“I am always saying "Glad to've met you" to somebody I'm not at all glad I met. If you want to stay alive, you have to say that stuff, though.”
— J.D. Salinger, The Catcher In The Rye
Tagged: Society, Formalities, Keeping Up Appearances
“I still fall on my face sometimes and I can't color inside the lines, cause I'm perfectly incomplete, I'm still working on my masterpiece.
And I, I wanna hang with the greatest, got a way to go, but it's worth the wait. No, you haven't seen the best of me, I'm still working on my masterpiece.”
— Jessie J, Materpiece
Tagged: Learning, Growing, Evolving, Masterpiece, Jessie J, Song Lyrics, Songs, Imperfections
“You aren’t a lot to handle. You’re magnificent. You aren’t a lot to handle. You’re just fine. You aren’t a lot to handle. You’re just YOU.”
— Kendra Syrdal, Here’s To The Girls Who Are A Lot To Handle
Tagged: Self-Acceptance, Loving Yourself, Be yourself
“And anytime you feel the pain, hey Jude, refrain. Don't carry the world upon your shoulders. For well you know that it's a fool who plays it cool by making his world a little colder.”
— The Beatles, Hey Jude
Tagged: Pain, Letting Go, The Beatles, Song Lyrics
“To the girls who get called sensitive too often, don’t let the bitter in heart stop you from feeling everything deeply. To feel is to experience life fully.”
— Sarah Ashley, To The Girls Still Searching For Big Love
Tagged: Feelings, Sensitive, Love
“A perfect studio has always told me that the person is afraid of his own mind and is reflecting in his outward space an inward need for control. Creativity is just the opposite: it is a loss of control. ”
— Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
Tagged: Creativity, Creative Living, Messy, Losing Control, Writing
“I'm still trying to find myself.”
— Six Word Story, Six word story
“I keep saving everyone except myself.”
— Six Word Story, Six word story
“And she was half happy, half sad.
She was half sure, half uncertain.
She was half confident, and half insecure.
She always lived in halves and that's what made her tired. ”
— Shahd El Hadidy, Roadtrip
“She has her limits...A good woman's love is powerful. Some of you have a good woman and will never experience the true power of her love because your inconsistencies prevent her from being able to fully love you the way she wants to.”
— Mr. Amari Soul, Reflections Of A Man
Tagged: Man, Woman, Relationships
“If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.”
— Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
“I have found both freedom and safety in my madness; the freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood, for those who understand us enslave something in us.”
— Khalil Gibran, The Prophet
Tagged: Loneliness, Freedom
“She is delightfully chaotic; a beautiful mess. Loving her is a splendid adventure.”
— Steve Maraboli, Twitter
“She's a mess of gorgeous chaos, You can see it in her eyes. Even when she tries to hide it, And especially when she cries.”
— Unknown, QuoteV
“I'm too full of life to be half loved”
— Unknown, Sweet Senderipity
“You were enough, maybe you were too much, maybe he prefers less and you deserve more.”
— R.H. Sin, Tumblr
“I'm never good at first dates, 
I talk too much, 
Look away when his eyes find mine. 
I release awkward smiles
Smiles that introduce him to the twelve year old in me. 
Smiles that coyly answer the questions
He discreetly asked from me.”
— Mirtha Michelle Castro, Letters, To The Men I Have Loved
Tagged: First Dates, Shy, Dating
“She was beautiful, but not like those girls in the magazines. She was beautiful, for the way she thought. She was beautiful, for the sparkle in her eyes when she talked about something she loved. She was beautiful, for her ability to make other people smile, even if she was sad. No, she wasn't beautiful for something as temporary as her looks. She was beautiful, deep down to her soul. She is beautiful.’”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful And The Damned
Tagged: His Beautiful Mind
“I have pretended to go mad in order to tell you the things I need to. I call it art. Because art is the word we give to our feelings made public. And art doesn't worry anyone.”
— Iain S. Thomas, I Wrote This For You
Tagged: Love, Art, Madness
“My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that, and I intend to end up there.”
— Rumi, The Essential Rumi, New Expanded Edition
Tagged: Love, Spirituality, Rumi
“And you. When will you begin that long journey into yourself? When?”
— Rumi, Jalaluddin Rumi Quotes & Poems on Life, Love & Death
Tagged: Rumi, Spirtuality
“I’m tired of falling for the ones who care less, the ones who are not serious, the ones who think I’m only good for a certain amount of time but not forever and I’m tired of falling for the ones who make me feel like it’s my fault.”
— Rania Naim, I Don’t Usually Give Up But I’m Giving Up On Love
Tagged: hearbreak, Giving Up, Love
“They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.”
— Khalil Gibran, Sand And Foam
Tagged: Madness, Freedom