You hold yourself so well, people would never suspect you're going through hell.

“Remind yourself of what you’ve been able to overcome. All the times when you thought you weren’t going to make it through, and you proved yourself wrong. You are more powerful than you feel.” - Unknown

"Everyone comes into a relationship with baggage, you can either trip over each other's stuff, or unpack it together. The right person will help you unpack."

“You are strong enough to face it all, even if it doesn’t feel like it just now.” - Unknown

when franz kafka wrote “i cannot make you understand. i cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me” and when sylvia plath wrote “can you understand? someone, somewhere, can you understand me a little, love me a little?”

Your soul knows. It will always tell you when it's time to distance yourself from those who no longer align with you mentally, emotionally, physically, or energetically.

Don't make the mistake of being so understanding and forgiving that you overlook the fact that you're being disrespected.

One day you think: I want to die. And then you think, very quietly, actually I want a coffee. I want a nap. A sandwich. A book. And I want to die turns day by day into I want to go home, I want to walk in the woods, I want to see my friends, I want to sit in the sun. I want a cleaner room, I want a better job, I want to live somewhere else, I want to live.