How someone reacts to your sadness says a lot about how long they’re going to be in your life.
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Notice all the people who make an effort to stay in your life.
Friends are supposed to make you feel good about yourself. Just remember that.
You will never be too much for someone who can’t get enough of you.
Opinion is really the lowest form of human knowledge. It requires no accountability, no understanding. The highest form of knowledge is empathy, for it requires us to suspend our egos and live in another’s world. It requires profound purpose larger than the self kind of understanding.
Your vagina is supposed to smell like a vagina, not a mango. If your partner complains about the natural smell or taste of your vagina, they can go fuck a mango.
My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts, my appearance, my talents, my flaws and to stop this incessant worrying that I can’t be loved as I am.
You need someone who goes out of their way to make it obvious that they want you in their life.
At your best you still won't be good enough for the wrong person. At your worst, you’ll still be worth it to the right person.
Don’t underestimate the power of another human being to lift you to the highest heaven, or cast you to the lowest hell.
I don’t chase people anymore. I learned that I’m here, and I’m important. I’m not going to run after people to prove that I matter.
Consensual sex’ is just sex. To say that implies that there is such a thing as ‘non consensual sex’, which there isn’t. That’s rape. That is what it needs to be called. There is only sex or rape. Do not teach people that rape is just another type of sex. They are two very separate events. You wouldn…
The most destructive thing I’ve ever done was believe someone else’s opinion of me.
The only thing I’m committed to right now is bettering myself.
I have learned that when sadness comes to visit me, all I can do is say “I see you.” I spend some time with it, get up, and say goodbye. I don’t push it away, I own it. And because I own it, I let it go.
The more you love yourself, the less nonsense you’ll tolerate.
When your past calls, don’t answer. It has nothing new to say.
Telling me I’m not allowed to be sad because there are other people out there who have it worse is like telling me I can’t be happy because other people have it better.