It Is Not Our Differences That Divide Us.

It is not our differences that divide us.

It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.

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All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope. -Winston Churchill

You can't build a relationship with someone who is attracted to your absence

who recognizes the value of your presence only when they start to miss it, who disappears without a word and reappears as they please, who is incapable of respectful communication: pulls away, stonewalls, or ghosts instead of stating their needs clearly, whose emotional unavailability locks them in their shell and prevents them from forming deeper bonds, who only shares with you pieces of themselves; who is only interested in pieces of you.

A relationship is built with intentional effort -it is a choice that translates into reality when it is consistently repeated, regardless of how easy or difficult it gets.

You can only build a relationship with someone who is committed to the process.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own.

And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go..

The kindest people are not born that way, they are made. They are the souls that have experienced much at the hands of life. They are the ones who have dug themselves out of the dark, who have fought to turn every loss into a lesson. The kindest people do not just exist. They choose to soften where circumstances have tried to harden them.

They choose to believe in goodness, because they have seen firsthand why compassion is so necessary. They have seen firsthand why tenderness is so important in this world.