Written. Read. Spoken.

“The people who believe they’ll be happy if they go and live somewhere else … learn it doesn’t work that way. Wherever you go, you take yourself with you.”

“as you get older, you realize that you’re not always right and there’s so many things you could’ve handled better, so many situations where you could’ve been kinder and all you can really do is forgive yourself and let your mistakes make you a better person.”

“When others asked the truth of me, I was convinced it was not the truth they wanted, but an illusion they could bear to live with.”

“Moving on doesn’t mean forgetting. It means you choose happiness over hurt.”

“Two things to remember in life: Take care of your thoughts when you are alone, and take care of your words when you are with people.”

“Trust yourself. You have survived a lot. And you will survive whatever is coming.”

“I’m slowly learning that some people aren’t good for me, no matter how much I love them.”

“Never apologize for how you feel. No one can control how they feel. The sun doesn’t apologize for being the sun. The rain doesn’t say sorry for falling. Feelings just are.”

“You teach people how to treat you by what you allow, what you stop, and what you reinforce.”

“I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.”