Be a voice, not an echo.

“I wish that photographs were physical spaces, like tunnels; that you could crawl inside them and go back.”

“Standing alone is better than standing with people who hurt you.”

“To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.”

“If you feel lost, there is always a map, you just might not to see it yet.”

“Everything seems okay. And then: a word, a line, a picture, a song…”

“Stop letting people who do so little for you control so much of your mind and emotions.”

“Live the life you’d be envious of if you saw someone else living it. This is my personal mantra. Whenever I’m going through a difficult time, like a breakup, and I’m wishing to be the person who could get over it and move on, I tell myself to be that person. Instead of waiting to be inspired by someone else and being jealous that they’re living a life I wish I had, I tell myself not to wait for that moment and to start being the person I want to be. If you wish you were the woman who went for that big promotion, learned a second language, dumped that guy who cheated on you, then just be that person. Think, if I have the energy to wish for it, I have the energy to do it.”

You're never too old to:

“I still love the people I’ve loved, even if I cross the street to avoid them.”

Grieve. So that you can be free to feel something else.