Respect yourself enough to walk away from anything that no longer serves you, grows you, or makes you happy. —Robert Tew
A good laugh and a long sleep are the two best cures for anything. —Irish proverb
Will I be something?
Am I something?
And the answer comes:
You already are.
You always were.
And you still have time to be.
—Anis Mojgani
Most girls are that hopeful, to be honest. Everybody thinks the first time is going to be magic and it might not be. I know that it wasn’t really in my case. The good news is that just because you don’t marry your high school love, there is love out there for you. —Dianna Agron
When my absence doesn’t alter your life, then my presence has no meaning in it. —unknown
I came to a point where I needed solitude and just stop the machine of ‘thinking’ and ‘enjoying’ what they call ‘living’, I just wanted to lie in the grass and look at the clouds. —Jack Kerouac
I let it go. It’s like swimming against the current. It exhausts you. After a while, whoever you are, you just have to let go, and the river brings you home. —Joanne Harris
I’m not the silly romantic you think. I don’t want the heavens or the shooting stars. I don’t want gemstones or gold. I have those things already. I want…a steady hand. A kind soul. I want to fall asleep, and wake, knowing my heart is safe. I want to love, and be loved. —Shana Abé
I firmly believe in small gestures: pay for their coffee, hold the door for strangers, over tip, smile or try to be kind even when you don’t feel like it, pay compliments, chase the kid’s runaway ball down the sidewalk and throw it back to him, try to be larger than you are— particularly when it’s difficult. People do notice, people appreciate. I appreciate it when it’s done to (for) me. Small gestures can be an effort, or actually go against our grain (“I’m not a big one for paying compliments…”), but the irony is that almost every time you make them, you feel better about yourself. For a moment life suddenly feels lighter, a bit more Gene Kelly dancing in the rain.—Jonathan Carroll
Because when something happens, you are the person I want to tell. The most basic indicator of love.
Go for someone who is proud to have you.
The person who tries to keep everyone happy often ends up feeling the loneliest. —Anonymous
Don’t tell thin women to eat a cheeseburger. Don’t tell fat women to put down the fork. Don’t tell underweight men to bulk up. Don’t tell women with facial hair to wax, don’t tell uncircumcised men they’re gross, don’t tell muscular women to go easy on the dead-lift, don’t tell dark-skinned women to bleach their vaginas, don’t tell black women to relax their hair, don’t tell flat-chested women to get breast implants, don’t tell “apple-shaped” women what’s “flattering,” don’t tell mothers to hide their stretch marks, and don’t tell people whose toes you don’t approve of not to wear flip-flops. And so on, etc, etc, in every iteration until the mountains crumble to the sea. Basically, just go ahead and CEASE telling other human beings what they “should” and “shouldn’t” do with their bodies unless a) you are their doctor, or b) SOMEBODY GODDAMN ASKED YOU. —Lindy West, Thin Women: I’ve Got Your Back. Could You Get Mine?
Any time you talk to anyone about something that they love, they’re, like, their most beautiful. It’s a cool gift to get to talk to people about what they love. —Amy Poehler
I was afraid to be alone, and now I’m scared that’s how I like to be. — November (Azure Ray)
We assume others show love the same way we do — and if they don’t, we worry it’s not there
No, I’m not ok. But I haven’t been ok since I was 11, maybe 12. I am still here though. I’m still breathing. For me, sometimes, that will have to be enough —Clementine Von Radics
At a certain point, I just have to try not to think too much about certain things, or else they’ll break my heart. —Jonathan Franzen
You cannot convince people to love you. This is an absolute rule. No one will ever give you love because you want him or her to give it. Real love moves freely in both directions. Don’t waste your time on anything else. —Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things
It’s one thing to fall in love. It’s another to feel someone else falling in love with you. —David Levithan
The trouble is that, for women, being “nice” often translates into putting up with things we should never put up with. How many times has some creep sat uncomfortably close to me on the bus and stared me down, yet I’m too afraid to just get up and move, lest I offend him?
We smile when we’re harassed on the street or hit on by jerks. We laugh at sexist jokes. We learn that when we have strong opinions, we’ll be called bitches and that if we get angry, we’ll be called hysterical. When we say what we want, we’re called pushy or aggressive.
Part of learning “ladylike” behavior is about learning to smile politely when someone is being crude. Femininity has long been attached to passivity and to being docile. Men fight, women giggle and fume silently. —Women And Girls Don’t Need To Be Told To Be Nicer | xoJane
My biggest fear is that eventually you will see me the way I see myself.
I noticed everything. I just act like I didn’t. —Unknown
Someone doesn’t like you? Fuck it. Having a bad day? Fuck it. Didn’t get that job, or that grade, or that promotion you wanted? Fuck it. Fighting with your lover? Fuck it. Feel fat today? Fuck it. Losing control of everything and everyone? Fuck it. What matters now won’t matter soon; the truly important thing is that you are alive, and that you have the capacity to do absolutely anything with this beautiful, crazy coincidence of being on this earth. Just stick your middle fingers in the air and think, ‘Damn, I have it good.’ —Gerard Way
People inspire you, or they drain you — pick them wisely. —Hans F. Hansen
The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are things you get ashamed of, because words make them smaller. When they were in your head they were limitless; but when they come out they seem to be no bigger than normal things. But that’s not all. The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried; they are clues that could guide your enemies to a prize they would love to steal. It’s hard and painful for you to talk about these things … and then people just look at you strangely. They haven’t understood what you’ve said at all, or why you almost cried while you were saying it. —Stephen King, The Body
We waste so many days waiting for weekend. So many nights wanting morning. Our lust for future comfort is the biggest thief of life
I think you need to fall in love with the wrong person. I think you need to fight and cry and sweat and bleed and fail. I think you need to have bad relationships and bad breakups. I think you need all of that so that when the right person and the right relationship comes along you can sigh with relief and say, “Ah yes. That is how its supposed to feel. —Excerpt from “Conversations with my Mother”
Never get too attached to anyone unless they also feel the same towards you, because one sided expectations kill you.
I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. —George Orwell, 1984
I used to think the worst thing in life was to end up all alone. It’s not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel all alone. —Robin Williams
Great people do things before they’re ready. They do things before they know they can do it. And by doing it, they’re proven right. Because, I think there’s something inside of you—and inside of all of us—when we see something and we think, ‘I think I can do it, I think I can do it. But I’m afraid to.’ Bridging that gap, doing what you’re afraid of, getting out of your comfort zone, taking risks like that—THAT is what life is. And I think you might be really good. You might find out something about yourself that’s special. And if you’re not good, who cares? You tried something. Now you know something about yourself. Now you know. A mystery is solved. So, I think you should just give it a try. Just inch yourself out of that back line. Step into life. Courage. Risks. Yes. Go. Now. —Amy Poehler
I don’t think people understand how stressful it is to explain what’s going on in your head when you don’t even understand it yourself. —Sara
It’s a very powerful thing when someone sees you as the person you wish you were. —Veronica Mars
The best kind of people are the ones that come into your life, and make you see the sun where you once saw clouds. The people that believe in you so much, you start to believe in you too. The people that love you, simply for being you. The once in a lifetime kind of people. —Unknown
Self-loathing is not a fucking character-builder. It doesn’t make you stronger. It doesn’t make you better. It’s just an ever-deepening, creepy-ass trap; a trap that is a huge moneymaker for corporations that do not have and never will have good intentions. You’re not disgusting. You’re not freakish. You’re not ugly. And you’re never going to be perfect. And holy shit, that is so okay. —Casual Blasphemies (Jane)
When I was younger, I saw 20-somethings sitting at coffee shops and thought they must be so happy now that they’re older and have their lives together. Now I’m the 20-something and I see that life doesn’t slow down and fall into place just because you’re old enough. Being older just means that you have to make time to stop and enjoy that coffee.
Love is not negotiable. No, not love. Love is a guessing game. And that’s the beauty of it, there’s no guarantees. It’s like diving into a pool of water without knowing if it’s shallow or deep. Sure, right, if it’s shallow you end up hurt and paralyzed from the neck down. But if it’s deep… it’s a leap of faith. It’s like throwing yourself out there without any guarantees. And that’s what life’s about.
Okay, you know those carnival games? And you know how some of them are really hard to win and some of them are super easy and everyone wins? Well, that’s the difference between love and sex. Sex is the game where everyone wins a little prize, and no one goes home a loser. And love is the game that’s really hard to win. But if you do, and you get to take home that life size stuffed rhinoceros, it feels a whole lot better than taking home a shitty little plastic key chain. —Leslie
You tried to change, didn’t you? Closed your mouth more, tried to be softer, prettier, less volatile, less awake…You can’t make homes out of human beings. Someone should have already told you that. —For Women Who Are Difficult to Love, Warsan Shire
Someday, someone is going to look at you like you’re the best thing in the world.
When you give someone your time, you are giving them a portion of your life that you’ll never get back. Your time is your life. That is why the greatest gift you can give someone is your time. —Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life
The fact that I’m silent doesn’t mean I have nothing to say. —Jonathan Carroll
Being kind isn’t always easy. Or convenient. But it has the potential to change everything. —Cap Watkins
Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive. —Hafiz
I said never apologize for how you feel. No one can control how they feel. The sun doesn’t apologize for being the sun. The rain doesn’t say sorry for falling. Feelings just are. —Iain S. Thomas, Intentional Dissonance
We can’t jump off bridges anymore because our iPhones will get ruined. We can’t take skinny dips in the ocean, because there’s no service on the beach and adventures aren’t real unless they’re on Instagram. Technology has doomed the spontaneity of adventure and we’re helping destroy it every time we Google, check-in, and hashtag. —Jeremy Glass, We Can’t Get Lost Anymore
I began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life. If you are interested in something, no matter what it is, go at it full speed ahead. Embrace it with both arms, hug it, love it and above all become passionate about it. Lukewarm is no good. Hot is no good, either. White hot and passionate is the only thing to be. —Roald Dahl
I don’t need someone to complete me, I need someone to make things a little bit better every now and again. —Jon Richardson
People empty me. I have to get away to refill. —Charles Bukowski
I’m a mess of unfinished thoughts. —John Mayer
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. —Mark Twain
I am yours.
Don’t give myself back to me. —Rumi
He found her most beautiful not when she was all fancied up, but when she wasn’t. When she was lying on the carpet, her hair all a mess, laughing about something that had happened years ago. When she wasn’t trying to impress anyone and taken down that wall that she had built for most people. That’s when he couldn’t take his eyes off of her. —xx
There are certain people who come into your life, and leave a mark. Their place in your heart is tender; a bruise of longing, a pulse of unfinished business. Just hearing their names pushes and pulls at you in a hundred ways, and when you try to define those hundred ways, describe them even to yourself, words are useless. —Sara Zarr, Sweethearts
How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard. —A.A. Milne
If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely. —Roald Dahl
I fell for you fast
Straight into the pavement
I didn’t even have time to wipe my bloody lip before I was speaking words of “I love you
You have to decide who you are and force the world to deal with you, not with its idea of you. —James Baldwin
It is so much safer not to feel, not to let the world touch me. —Sylvia Plath
I’m not sure which is worse; intense feeling, or the absence of it. —Margaret Atwood
My lover asks me:
“What is the difference between me and the sky?”
The difference, my love,
Is that when you laugh,
I forget about the sky. —Nizar Qabbani, My Lover Asks Me
When I first met you, I felt a kind of contradiction in you. You’re seeking something, but at the same time, you are running away for all you’re worth. —Haruki Murakami
I wish I had more,
more letters, more words, more time,
to write all you are. —Daily Haiku on Love by Tyler Knott Gregson
If the full moon loves you, why worry about the stars? —Tunisian Proverb
In the end, only three things matter:
how much you loved, how gently you lived,
and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you. —Buddhist saying
You can’t just make me different and then leave. —Looking for Alaska, John Green
“Nobody is ever a villain in his own head” - Neil Gaiman
I’m going to tell you what a demon once told me: It is okay to want your own happiness. It’s okay to care about yourself the most. It’s okay to do what’s healthy for YOU. When someone hits you, it’s okay to hit back and then ask them what the hell they expected. It’s okay. You are not obligated to sit there and smile and swallow every bit of shit everyone heaps on you. You are more than furniture, you’re more than window dressing, you’re not their shiny toy. You’re human, and you have the right to say “That was shitty of you”. You have a right to say “Let me feed that back to you; tell me, how does it taste?” You have a right to protest your own mistreatment and set boundaries for respectful interactions. The rest of the world doesn’t realize you have this right, and they will act offended and appalled when you exercise it, but it is yours. —SonneillonV
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. —Andrea Gibson, “The Moon is a Kite”
When you’re scared but you still do it anyway, that’s brave. —Neil Gaiman, Coraline
I have to be alone very often. I’d be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That’s how I refuel. —Audrey Hepburn
Close some doors today. Not because of pride, incapacity or arrogance, but simply because they lead you nowhere. —Paulo Coelho
Be kind to yourself. Stop telling yourself that whatever you are struggling with “should” be easy. If something is hard for you, it is hard for you. There are probably Reasons, though those may just be how you are wired. Acknowledge these things. When you finish something hard, be proud! Celebrate a little.
And really, just stop saying “should” to yourself about your thoughts and feelings in any context. You feel how you feel. The things in your head are the things in your head. You can’t change either directly through sheer force of will. You can only change what you do. Stop beating yourself up for who and what you are right now–it isn’t productive. Focus on moving forward. —How to keep moving forward, even when your brain hates you.
You’re single because you’re single. It’s not because you texted too much or too little or waited 33 minutes to respond because he took 23. It’s not because you met up with your ex that night at 5 a.m. that no one knows about, or because you kissed another boy after a date with a loser.
You’re not single because you spit food on that date or tripped coming out the the movie theatre. You’re not single because you hurt your first boyfriend really badly when you were 15 or because you have yet, to this day, to apologize. It’s not because you were secretly jealous when your friend got a boyfriend or that a guy you dated for two months now has a really cute girlfriend and looks really happy. And you’re happy for him. But still ill that he found someone before you.
You’re not single because you slept with your ex boyfriend. You’re not single because half the world found out when you didn’t even want to remember it yourself. You’re not single because you think the guy your friend wants to hook you up with is ugly or not tall enough. It’s not because you’re not willing to put up with someone who doesn’t brush their teeth on a regular basis.
You’re not single because your standards are too high. Good for you for having standards. It’s not because you didn’t like that really, really good guy who wanted to take you on a date and you just weren’t feeling it. And it’s not because you like to wear pajama pants as soon as you get home and wash all the makeup off your face. You’re not single because you didn’t learn enough from the past or would rather chill on a Friday night with your blanket and a cold beer than shower, get ready, and go out. You’re not single because something is wrong with you.
You are single because you are single. It’s really as simple as that. You haven’t made the connection with another heart yet. You can get dolled up, dress cute, cut your hair, dye your hair, tweeze your eyebrows, put on lipstick and you may still. be. single. You can go out to a bar hoping to meet the love of your life and not find a damn one in the place attractive. And it’s going to remain that way until it’s time for you to find one. Stop hoping for it. Start living the life that you do have instead of wishing for things that you don’t have. There will come a time you’ll meet a boy and you’ll have to give up some of this single freedom you currently have. Start being more thankful. Start doing that now. —Why You’re Single by Amanda Crute
We all have bullets beneath our skin we pray our lovers won’t flinch at when they find. —Andrea Gibson
Finding your passion isn’t just about careers and money. It’s about finding your authentic self. The one you’ve buried beneath other people’s needs —Kristin Hannah
Sometimes you’re 23 and standing in the kitchen of your house making breakfast and brewing coffee and listening to music that for some reason is really getting to your heart. You’re just standing there thinking about going to work and picking up your dry cleaning. And also more exciting things like books you’re reading and trips you plan on taking and relationships that are springing into existence. Or fading from your memory, which is far less exciting. And suddenly you just don’t feel at home in your skin or in your house and you just want home but “Mom’s” probably wouldn’t feel like home anymore either. There used to be the comfort of a number in your phone and ears that listened everyday and arms that were never for anyone else. But just to calm you down when you started feeling trapped in a five-minute period where nostalgia is too much and thoughts of this person you are feel foreign. When you realize that you’ll never be this young again but this is the first time you’ve ever been this old. When you can’t remember how you got from sixteen to here and all the same feel like sixteen is just as much of a stranger to you now. The song is over. The coffee’s done. You’re going to breathe in and out. You’re going to be fine in about five minutes. —The Winter of the Air
Don’t expect anyone to understand your journey, especially if they haven’t walked your path. —Unknown
Don’t beat yourself up over past mistakes. Hold your head high and dry your tears. A new day is here. —Everyday Life Lessons
Wake up every morning and tell yourself that you’re a badass bitch from hell and that no one can fuck with you and then don’t let anybody fuck with you. —Kate Nash’s advice to college students
Self-confidence is not the same thing as ego. This is not to say that the two don’t (frequently) dance hand in hand down the street, pushing over old ladies in crosswalks and kicking baby kittens. But they are definitely not the same entity. Ego is thinking you have all the answers. Self-confidence is knowing you don’t have the answers, but being pretty sure that you will be able to find them. —Maggie Stiefvater
When sadness was the sea, you were the one that taught me to swim. —Iain S. Thomas, I Wrote This For You
You are not weak just because your heart feels so heavy. —Andrea Gibson, The Nutritionist
Let them miss you. Sometimes when you’re always available, they take you for granted because they think you’ll always stay. —Anonymous
Closing your eyes isn’t going to change anything. Nothing’s going to disappear just because you can’t see what’s going on. —Haruki Murakami
Stop ruining love by wanting it so bad. —Derrick Brown
It is so hard to leave — until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world. —John Green, Paper Towns
Remember how far you’ve come, not just how far you have to go. You are not where you want to be, but neither are you where you used to be. —Rick Warren
Everyone wants to feel special. Loved. Included. Are you going to be the person to prevent that from happening? I know I am not. Not ever. And I feel compelled to do everything I can in this lifetime to encourage others to be loving and supportive people. —Dianna Agron, Spirit Day Ambassador
This is my favorite one:
I find that
I spill my heart out
to Anyone who gives me
The slightest bit of attention
Silly me
Thinking they actually care
-K.B
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