"Try not to confuse attachment with love. Attachment is about fear and dependency, and has more to do with love of self than love of another. Love without attachment is the purest love because it isn’t about what others can give you because you’re empty. It is about what you can give others because you’re already full."

this is the most eloquently I have ever seen this put (via craisins)

(Source: day488, via kleemoney)

"It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone."

John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent (via dearscience)

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