Belle Townsend Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life

1. And when I say I love you,I mean that I will see the ugliest parts of you, and I will still love you enough to know that is not who you are. That is only what you have to survive. Push and Pull

2. And when someone tells me that they want more out of life,I think of how capitalismconditions us to chase dopamine,to always want more.Instant gratification has white knucklesfrom death gripping our attention.We share our lives onlineonly to have ourselves sold back to us.We are taught that there is always more, but only if we can afford it.

3. I am suffocated by my own being just as much as I am grateful for it. I love everything in this way:in such a way that I cannot bear it. I know what it is to love something so much that every moment is something both loved and lost.

4. I have started to spend my Fridays playing tennis with a boy from my class,and he said we would only do it as long as the weather permitted.I have started looking forward to Fridays.It is getting colder everyday, this is the worst part of living in New England:how quickly the seasons change.

5. I have started to spend my Fridays playing tennis with a boy from my class,and he said we would only do it as long as the weather permitted.I have started looking forward to Fridays.It is getting colder everyday, this is the worst part of living in New England:how quickly the seasons change. But what a joy it is to have something, anything,just for a little while. What a privilege it is to hold something so precious, so small,so unspoken,and to wince when you have to let go. What a treat to have so much lifegrace these fingertips,to love so much that I now know such loss.What a curseto have it all move so quickly,to have it be out of reach so fast. Push and Pull

6. The quiet regrowth of a forest,fertilized only by its own burnt flesh,is what I think of when I think of survival. When we are able to look death in the face and prosper because of it, and not just despite it,we prove that to live is to contradict.

7. Time with you has become my most precious currency. This love is our love, and oh, how priceless it isto have my heartand your heartat this very intersection of bothtime and space. Push and Pull

8. We forgetthat the days we are just getting through add up,and that history does not feel like history to those in the middle of it. Push and Pull