“Stop hating yourself for everything you aren’t. Start loving yourself for everything you are.”

“the idea that this is all you’re going to get is so false . you will meet kinder people, you will find a place where you belong. there will always be new things to be loved by & if you aren’t being loved right now all it means is that better love is in your future”

“I’m not everything I want to be, but l’m more than I was, and l’m still learning.”

“Better to be at the bottom of a ladder you want to climb than in the middle of some ladder you don’t, right?”

“I need to stop fantasizing about running away to some other life, and start figuring out the one I have.”

“Free yourself from the illusion of good and bad days. Labeling time makes us nostalgic of the past and demanding of the future. There is only here and now. Let it be.”

“Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside while still alive. Never surrender.”

“It doesn’t matter how many people you meet in your life; you just need the real ones who accept you for who you are and help you become who you should be.”

“Sometimes letting go is the only way to find out who you’re meant to hold on to.”

“I will breathe. I will think of solutions. I will not let my worry control me. I will not let my stress level control me. I will simply breath. And it will be OK. Because I don’t quit.”

“Let someone love you the way you are - as flawed as you might be, as unattractive as you sometimes feel, and as unaccomplished as you think you are. To believe that you must hide all the parts of you that are broken, out of fear that someone else is incapable of loving what is less than perfect, is to believe that sunlight is incapable of entering a broken window and illuminating a dark room.”

““When people walk away from you, let them go. Your destiny is never tied to someone who leaves you. And it doesn’t mean they are bad people, it just means that their part in your story is over.” - Tony McCollum”