dreams and disasters

Love yourself. Forgive yourself. Be true to yourself. How you treat yourself sets the standard for how others will treat you.

So much of what we learn about love is taught by people who never really loved us.

There are some people who always seem angry, and continuously look for conflict. Walk away; the battle they are fighting isn’t with you, it is with themselves.

Growth is painful. Change is painful.But nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don’t belong.

Never carry things on from the past. The past is gone. Every moment - be rid of it, solved or unsolved. Drop it, and don’t carry parts - because those parts won’t allow you to solve new problems that live in this moment.

I pray that everything works out in my favor and a list of blessings continue to come my way.

A lack of boundaries invite a lack of respect.

If it’s destroying you, then it isn’t love, my dear.

I realized that I was holding on to something that didn’t exist anymore. That the person I missed didn’t exist anymore. People change.

And in that moment she realized none of it was real, and so she set herself free.

Sometimes you need to be alone in order to find out who you really are and what you really want.

Pain doesn’t just show up in our lives for no reason. It’s a sign that something in our life needs to change.

You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.

A sad thing in life is that sometimes you meet someone who means a lot to you, only to find out in the end it was never bound to be, and you just have to let go.

Depression is a flaw in chemistry, not character.