i would rather move on knowing i wanted to,
rather than knowing he never wanted me.

you can't just sit there and put everybody's lives
ahead of yours, and think that counts as love.
+ The Perks of Being a Wallflower

if you are convinced that you are not good enough, you will have a difficult
time accepting someone into your life who thinks you are.

you have to learn when to give up, when to walk away,
even if it hurts…especially if it hurts.

courage is not the absence of fear, but rather than judgement that something is more
important than fear. the brave may not live forever, but the cautious don't live at all.
+ Princess Diaries

 people spend a lifetime searching for happiness, looking for peace. they chase idle dreams, 
addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill the emptiness that plagues them. 
the irony is, the only place they ever needed to search was within.

no matter how painful your decision has been, as long as you can
sleep well at night, it means that you made the right choice.

i want to think of dangerous and noble things. i want to be light and frolicsome.
i want to be improbable, beautiful, and afraid of nothing. as though i had wings.
+ Mary Oliver

i am not afraid to fail, even in public. it is too easy to pretend you have it together,
because no one does. the more you can allow yourself to make mistakes, the better
off you are going to be. that is what life is about. you are going to get thrown off,
and you just need to get back on.

sometimes you just need to distance yourself from people.
if they care they will notice. if they don't, you know where you stand.