Ägyptisches Sprichwort

Wer mit einer Katze spielt,
muss wissen, dass sie auch Krallen hat.

"A Broken Heart Still Beats" by The Rigs

Smile at the crowd
but I know you're lonely
To say it out loud
is to admit that you're beat
I know the truth
and I know your secrets
It might not be safe
but danger is sweet
The truth is a broken heart still beats

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id_2KTp3yRw)

"The One" by Lang Leav

I don't want you to love me because I'm good for you,
because I say and do all the right things. Because I am
everything you have been looking for.
I want to be the one you didn't see coming. The one who gets
under your skin. Who makes you unsteady. Who makes you
question everything you have ever believed about love. I
want to be the one who makes you feel reckless and out of
control; the one you are infuriatingly and inexplicably
drawn to.
I don't want to be the one who tucks you into bed; I want to
be the reason why you can't sleep at night.

"Dirty Pretty Things" by Michael Faudet

She was the kind of girl
who loved to stretch out under the sheets,
eating chocolate,
and fucking on rainy afternoons.

"Memories" by Lang Laev

It was words that I fell for. In the end, it was words that broke my heart.

"Devil's Playground" by The Rigs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZ4gbXRHXNY

"Spit It Out" by IAMX

And if you’re hurting, I will replace the noise with silence instead, flushing out your head.
If you like it violent, we can play rough and tumble, fall into bed, and I won’t breathe so you can recover.

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQ78xHNnjCs)

Gabourey Sidibe

One day I decided that I was beautiful, and so I carried out my life as if I was a beautiful girl. I wear colors that I really like, I wear makeup that makes me feel pretty, and it really helps. It doesn’t have anything to do with how the world perceives you. What matters is what you see. Your body is your temple, it’s your home, and you must decorate it.

Ruby Wax

How come every other organ in your body can get sick and you get sympathy, except your brain?

"Romancing Mister Bridgerton" by Julia Quinn

Deep inside, she knew who she was, and that person was smart and kind and often even funny, but somehow her personality always got lost somewhere between her heart and her mouth, and she found herself saying the wrong thing or, more often, nothing at all.

Bill Murray

There's only one person you're guaranteed to spend the rest of your life with… yourself. Don't live the rest of your life with an asshole.

"Nachtzug nach Lissabon" von Pascal Mercier

Ich will nicht, dass mich jemand ganz versteht. Ich will unerkannt durchs Leben gehen. Die Blindheit der anderen ist meine Sicherheit und meine Freiheit.

Your value doesn't decrease based on someone's inability to see your worth.

If they can't make you laugh then don't fuck them.

Ijeoma Umebinyuo

Start now. Start where you are. Start with fear. Start with pain. Start with doubt. Start with hands shaking. Start with voice trembling but start. Start and don’t stop. Start where you are, with what you have. Just…start.

"Pills" by The Perishers

One may think we're alright
But we need pills to sleep at night
We need lies to make it through the day
We're not okay

"Daily Poem #1" by Nick A West

Maybe soulmates
are just two ordinary people
who are too stubborn
to let the world pull them apart

Deaton, MTV Teen Wolf

But it's not just someone to hold you under. It needs to be someone who can pull you back, someone that has a strong connection to you, a kind of emotional tether.

Jaime Lichauco

When it’s time for souls to meet, there’s nothing on earth that can prevent them from meeting, no matter where each may be located. When two hearts are meant for each other, no distance is too far, no time is too long, and no other love can break them apart.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

"Hurts Like Hell" by Fleurie

https://soundcloud.com/fleuriemusic-1/hurts-like-hell

John Cassavetes

Say what you are. Not what you would like to be. Not what you have to be. Just say what you are. And what you are is good enough.

Perché lo so fare

Dolce far niente

Süßes Nichtstun

Jace Wayland, Shadowhunters (2016)

You assume I have feelings. I don't.

Leonard Cohan

There is a crack in everything.
That’s how the light gets in.

"Getting Into the Vortex" by Abraham-Hicks

Being happy is a very personal thing—and it really has nothing to do with anyone else .

Don’t get mad. Don’t get even. Do better. Much better. Rise above. Become so engulfed in your own success that you forget it ever happened.

"Lover at Last" by J. R. Ward

Closing the door behing hin [Qhuinn], he leaned back against it. The only person he wanted to see was the one guy in the house who had no interest in-
[...]
"Is there anything I can do?" [Blay said]
So funny. Qhuinn had always felt as though he'd come out of his mother's womb an adult. Then again, there had never been any cootchie-coo crap for him, no darling-little-boy stuff, no hugs when he hurt himself, no coddling when he was frightened. As a result, whether it was character or the way he'd been brought up, he'd never regressed.
Nothing to go back to there.
Yet it was in the voice of a child that he said, "Make it stop?"
As if Blay alone had the power to work a miracle.
And then... the male did.
Blay extented his arms wide, offering the only haven Qhuinn had ever known.

"Make it stop?"
Blay's body started to shake as Qhuinn uttered those words: After all these years, he'd seen th eguy in a lot of moods and in a lot of circumstances. Never like this, though. Never... so completely and utterly ruined.
Never like a child, lost.
In spite of his need to keep really and truly far away from an emotional anything, his arms opened of their own accord.
As Qhuinn stepped in against him, the fighter's body seemed smaller than it actually was. And the arms that wound around Blay's waist simply lay against him as if there was no strength in the muscles.Blay held them both up.


(p. 279)

Emotionally upset & stomachache

The tenth cranial nerve, the vagus nerve is the only cranial nerve that leaves the confines of the skull and meanders throughout the body. The word vagus, derived from the latin word vagrant, or wanderer, wanders throughout the body.
That's why we feel it in our stomach when we are upset emotionally. The vagus innervates the stomach, the gut, the liver, the heart also. Emotion begins in the mind, and is transferred to the body via the many branches of cranial nerve X, the vagus.

Lebenskreis

Wurzeln schlagen und aufbrechen,
festhalten und loslassen,
jeden Zeitraum als Geschenk erleben.

"Clockwork Prince" by Cassandra Clare

We live and breathe words. .... It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I with them. Reading your words, what you wrote, how you were lonely sometimes and afraid, but always brave; the way you saw the world, its colors and textures and sounds, I felt--I felt the way you thought, hoped, felt, dreamt. I felt I was dreaming and thinking and feeling with you. I dreamed what you dreamed, wanted what you wanted--and then I realized that truly I just wanted you.

George Orwell

On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

William Shakespeare

The earth has music for those who listen.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

the earth laughs in flowers