We only accept the love we think we deserve - perks of being a wallflower

"be like water my friend"

Once you're at the bottom you can only go up from there.

"We accept the love we think we deserve."

" everyone wants sunshine, no one wants rain. But you can have a rainbow without a little rain "

I have no idea to this day what those two Italian ladies were singing about. Truth is, I don't wanna know. Some things are better left unsaid. I'd like to think they were singing about something so beautiful it can't be expressed in words, and it makes your heart ache because of it. I tell you those voices soared, higher and farther than anybody in a grey place dares to dream. It was like some beautiful bird flapped into our drab little cage and made these walls dissolve away, and for the briefest of moments, every last man in Shawshank felt free."

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"You were like a poem that breathes"

When you encounter difficulties and contradictions,
do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.