convincing yourself that you’ll start loving yourself when you do X, achieve X, change X is unfair, and not love at all. you deserve your own full compassion and understanding right now, no matter your body, accomplishments, environment or circumstances

How your partner reacts to your sadness and things that bother you, should tell you all you need to know about how long the relationship should last.

I don’t want to just be alive, I want to live. I want to experience things, and to see the world. I want to take risks and meet new people. I’m tired of just existing, I want to spend my life out of my comfort zone. When I die, I want to go knowing I have actually DONE something, and that I have lived this one, precious life given to me, to the fullest.