“Look around. Appreciate what you have. Nothing will be the same in a year.”

“Be happy for the little things in life that require less to no reason at all. Smile because the weather is cheerfully warm. Smile because you had a pleasingly healthy breakfast this morning. Smile because you’re listening to some of your favorite new songs on repeat. Smile because you’re watering pretty flowers just to keep them wonderful. Smile because happiness is simply the thing that inevitably happens when you practice being grateful.”

“The things I want to remember I can’t, and the things I try so hard to forget just keep coming.”

“Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye”

“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.”

gentle reminders if you’re sad:

if you’re at a low point in life right now, consider THIS: