Climate Whitney Hanson Quotes

they told me my job description but i think i’ve got it wrong. they said i was supposed to man the lighthouse and save lost ships from going down. but every time i saw the ships i forgot about the light. i dove headfirst into the sea and swam to save their life.   i drowned us both in the process; the ships never found the shore. i ended up helping less when i meant to be helping more.   i think when they told me to save people with my light, i mistook their words and tried to save people with my life.   i know i should have turned the light on, i know i should have taken their advice, but i don’t know what love is if it is not sacrifice.

nothing bites harder than my own expectations

for once i wanted someone to be so sure of me that everything else disappears.

all the parts you think are broken or missing, love will put them back.

i can’t tell if my expectations for love are far too high or far too low

hope is found in the way things always rearrange. you can find solace in the fact that even if this is the worst storm you’ve yet to face, the sun will always fall back into place.

and time will carry them away again. sometimes i wake

the worst kind of homesickness is the kind where you just want to get back to yourself

all the reasons you believe you are unlovable are all the reasons you need love. love will heal you in the places closed doors won’t.

i wish we treated broken hearts like broken bones and sent ambulances for bleeding souls.

when will i ever be good enough for you?” i said to the girl in the mirror.

it wasn’t love at first sight that isn’t to say that i was not mesmerized when i met you but rather it is to say that there was something far more captivating than the way you looked i didn’t fall in love when i found you i fell in love with what i found in you

some things you should know about loving me: i will take some time to trust you my heart is a little black and blue from hands that were a little too clumsy to hold it i keep myself a little bit hidden i keep my walls a little bit high but when they fall you won’t have to remind me of your birthday i hold in my heart the freckle counting text me when you’re home call me when you need me kind of love i won’t let you have a single doubt in your mind that the love song stuck in my head says anything but your name because the thing about having a heart with walls around it is that once you’re let inside it makes a safe place to stay

i don’t feel like i need to impress you to keep you here. you might not suppose that means much, but i’ve been fighting for people to stay for so long that i thought i forgot how to just love someone. how to just be loved. how to let my existence be the only thing they’re looking for in me. thank you for helping me believe that i have always been enough that i don’t have to be anything more that i shouldn’t feel like being loved is something i must beg for

the thing about the sadness is that it isn’t invasive. it doesn’t walk in on a beautiful day and suddenly everything becomes dim. it is different than that. sadness doesn’t kidnap its victims it befriends them. it doesn’t walk in forcefully and drag you down it invites you, tells you exactly what you want to hear: you are safe, there are no expectations here. it promises you rest at the cost of happiness. there are no chains tying me to sadness but i go willingly.

i wish i wasn’t so desperate for someone to prove to me that i can be loved

you battle the storms you do because you carry a depth in you that their shallow souls will never understand your depth is not a burden it is a gift

i don’t want to be looked at if you are not here to see my soul there is so much of me to behold i don’t want to be looked at, i want to be seen.

growth will only come when i surrender in a war where the enemy is me.

sane love makes you feel insane if insane love is all you have ever known patient love makes you feel restless if restless love is all you have ever known gentle love makes you feel uneasy if uneasy love is all you have ever known peaceful love makes you feel anxious if anxious love is all you have ever known we are creatures of the love that we know the way we are accustomed to receiving love defines the love that we search for

i don’t want to be rescued i just want someone to notice that i’m trapped ~prisoner

i don’t want someone to fix this. i want someone to tell me i don’t need fixing. i want someone to tell me the weight of life is a reasonable excuse to feel this heavy.

the last time my heart was this dark, i started picking up hobbies to fill the cracks. i had to occupy myself to cope. this time, all i can do is sit here in my brokenness and wonder how much more i can possibly take.

i’ve heard that the first step to finding your way is admitting that you are lost. there may not be a map written in the stars. there may be a long journey ahead. but looking up and asking what now? might be the first step.

i’m afraid that if i let my soul get too light it will float away from me ~fear of healing

i have always been a strong believer in magic but not the kind that you find in fairytales but the type that music and sunsets are composed of i think that you are made of it too

i want you the way you want me and i think that’s rare ~mutual love

if they feel like hearing your favorite song for the first time don’t let them go

you leave me empty in all the best ways empty of the doubt that no one will be able to love me empty of the certainty that i will always be a little bit short of what someone is looking for empty of all the things i was never meant to be full of so much time i wasted looking for someone to make me feel full i never realized that being emptied was always what i needed more

i’ve never been one to expect blue skies i’ve never been one to anticipate the best. that makes trust difficult for me. that makes placing my hope in people impossible. this is how i knew you were special. the moment i met you, trust became easy. anticipating the best wasn’t so difficult for me. i’ve never met someone who’s very nature drew sunlight from within me. the moment i met you, i started anticipating skies that were blue. everything that was difficult for me became easy when i was with you.

i can’t help but wonder what it would be like to be the girl that gets to meet your family.

sometimes love isn’t the fall. it is the time you spend sitting on the edge of the cliff learning each other’s souls

maybe the consistency we need to embrace is the surety of change. i’ve decided to stop putting my faith in happiness. rather i choose to believe there is balance in the way the good and the bad shake hands. i choose to believe there is hope in the change i don’t understand.

sometimes we don’t need someone to bring back the sun sometimes we just need someone to sit with us in the rain

it doesn’t hurt like it once did and that is enough to go on

i shared my favorite song with you and i know that you weren’t aware but that was my way of saying i love you because every feeling music floods me with i wanted you to feel it too