“Finding love is the unconscious motivator for a lot of the things we do. It’s why we work out, it’s why we go to a bar on a Saturday night when we really don’t want to, it’s why we agree to meet strangers off the internet.”Tagged: Love, motivation, Relationships
“Everyone wants to be loved. Everyone wants to rely on someone. For a lot of people, it’s their Achilles heel. Love is the reason why they made most of their mistakes.”Tagged: Love, Relationships, Equalizer, Mistakes
“Everyone is an idiot when it comes to matters of the heart. Love is the great equalizer. Whenever you feel intimidated by someone’s coolness, just imagine them sobbing in their bedroom after someone broke their heart. I guarantee it’s happened.”Tagged: Love, Relationships, Heartbreak, Heartache
“You will never love someone quite the same way you do the first time. In most cases, this is a good thing. The first time is fucking insane.”Tagged: Love, First Love, Relationships, Falling In Love
“It is possible to love someone who doesn’t love you back. It’s not a full love, it doesn’t have a whole lot of depth, but it’s still there.”Tagged: Love, Unrequited Love, Relationships, Healthy Love
“It’s so painful to have loved someone once and then never again. Sometimes you’ll wish it never happened just so you didn’t know how good it felt. Then you remember that quote ‘It’s better to have loved and lost than to have ever loved at all’ and you’re like, ‘okay, fine.'”Tagged: Love, humor, Breakups, Pain, Relationships
“Falling in love is nature’s drug and you can OD on it.”Tagged: Love, Drug, Relationships, Infatuation, Obsession
“Where were you the first time sex left you hating yourself? When was the first time sex left you feeling drained instead of full, warm, and happy?”Tagged: Sex
“There will be periods in your life when sex will answer a lot of questions for you. It will make everything clearer. There will also be times, however, when sex enables your downfall and leaves you feeling more devastated and confused than you were to begin with. That’s just the way it is. Sex…”Tagged: Love, Sex, Self-Concept, Self-Love
“The things you have in your life that make you feel unlovable and small can go away. They have as much power as you give them.”Tagged: Life, Love, Self-Love, Being Loved, Unloveable
“It’s hard for me to explain this to you in a way that will make one hundo percent sense, but I’ll try. Until recently, maybe in the last year or so, I didn’t understand that life could be good. It wasn’t like I was against happiness. I just didn’t think it was an option for someone like me.”Tagged: Happiness, Life
“You’ll treat someone terribly. Whether it be to a lover or your friend, there’ll be someone whose feelings you take for granted. We focus too much on whether or not someone is hurting us. The reality is that we might actually be the one who’s hurting someone.”Tagged: Love, Relationships, Pain
“You’ll treat someone terribly. Whether it be to a lover or your friend, there’ll be someone whose feelings you take for granted. We focus too much on whether or not someone is hurting us. The reality is that we might actually be the one who’s hurting someone.”Tagged: Love, Relationships, Pain
“You’ll have moments with someone that are so intense, it’ll feel like you’ve been electrocuted back to life. You’ll hold on to these moments for a long time. They’ll give you hope when you’re going through the motions.”Tagged: Happiness, Joy, Life, 20s
“You’ll always care about your first love. That doesn’t make you crazy, it just makes you human. When relationships end, it’s not so cut and dry. You carry everyone you’ve ever loved into every relationship thereafter.”Tagged: Relationships, Love, First Love, Falling In Love
“Loving yourself is hard. Hating yourself is harder.”Tagged: Love, Hate, Self-Love, Self-Acceptance, Self-hatred
“You’re going to betray your convictions. You’re going to feel shame. You’re going to continue to put yourself in situations that aren’t good for you. And then, slowly but surely, it will become less frequent. It might not ever go away completely but it won’t be as bad. In the meantime, stop shame…”Tagged: Shame, Choices, Making The Wrong Choices, morals, Life
“You’ll be jealous of everyone who’s more successful than you. That’s okay. Just transfer that jealousy into something productive, like working really hard so you can one day eclipse them and make them feel jealous of YOU.”Tagged: Jealousy, Success, Working Hard, Productivity
“You’re going to lose touch with a lot of your friends. With some people, it will be expected but with others it will feel like a punch to the stomach. No friendship is truly safe in your twenties. Don’t worry though. You’ll end up with the ones that matter. If someone’s no longer in your life, it’s…”Tagged: Friendship, Twenties, Losing Friends
“More people would like to have sex with you than you might think. If you’re ever in doubt, you should just assume that someone would be okay with seeing you naked.”Tagged: Sex, Naked, Relationships, Lust