244 Quotes by Andrea Gibson

I know you think this world is too dark to even dream in color, but I’ve seen flowers bloom at midnight. I’ve seen kites fly in gray skies and they were real close to looking like the sunrise, and sometime it takes the most wounded wings the most broken things to notice how strong the breeze is, how precious the flight.

Know you belong here. You belong here and everything you feel is okay.

Commit to loving yourself completely. It’s the most radical thing you will do in your lifetime.

If you were to press your heart close up against somebody else’s heart eventually your hearts will start beating at the same time. And two little babies in an incubator, their hearts will beat at the same time. Love that. So if you have somebody in your life that is prone to anxiety, like myself, and if you happen to be a calm person, you could come up and hug me heart to heart and my heart hopefully would slow to yours. And I just love that idea. Or maybe yours would speed up to mine. But either way, we’ll be there together.

I have always been comfortable weathering the storm. I’d like to get more comfortable weathering the sunny day.

I don’t have a single plan for my life more important than learning to love people well.

Touch me ’til my ribs become piano keys, ’til there is sheet music scrolled across the inside of my lungs.

I said to the sun, ‘Tell me about the big bang.’ The sun said, ’it hurts to become.

What Gods do you believe in? I’ll build you a temple of mirrors so you can see them.