I never learned to count my blessings

how can you tell when goodbye means goodbye
not just for now but for the rest of your life
how can you stand there with love in your eyes
and still be walking away?

-The Avett Brothers//Find Your Love

Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.

-bell hooks//all about love: new visions

I’ve been afraid of changing because I’ve built my life around you.

-Stevie Nicks//Landslide

But the one thing about human beings that puzzles me the most is their conscious effort to be connected with the object of their affection, even if it kills them slowly within.

-Sigmund Freud