“It sucks to have this one person in your life that can derail you at a moment’s notice. But in a way, it feels good knowing that you could ever love someone so much. Or that’s what you tell yourself anyway. It doesn’t matter if something is true or not. The things we tell ourselves can become our tr…”— Ryan O'Connell, thoughtcatalog.com
“The biggest battle you fight in your twenties is the one you’re in with yourself. The most important thing you can learn in this decade is how to love yourself. Without that knowledge, your life will always be a little bit terrible.”— Ryan O'Connell, thoughtcatalog.com
“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.”— Ryan O'Connell, thoughtcatalog.com
“Sometimes you will feel overwhelmed with emotion and want to cry during sex. That’s okay. You’re not crazy. There’s just a dick inside of you. We’ve all been there.”— Ryan O'Connell, thoughtcatalog.com
“You will fall in love with your friends. Deep, passionate love. You will create a second family with them, a kind of tribe that makes you feel less vulnerable. Sometimes our families can’t love us all the time. Sometimes we’re born into families who don’t know how to love us properly. They do as muc…”— Ryan O'Connell, thoughtcatalog.com
“The second time you fall in love with someone, you’re going to compare it to your first love. That’s okay. That’s natural. You’re going to be studying the new love with judgement and wariness. ‘My ex never liked broccoli. Why the hell does this one eat so much broccoli?!’ Discovering that you have t…”— Ryan O'Connell, thoughtcatalog.com
“The second time you fall in love with someone, you’re going to feel so relieved.”— Ryan O'Connell, thoughtcatalog.com
“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.”— Ryan O'Connell, Ryan O'Connell, thoughtcatalog.com
“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.”— Ryan O'Connell, thoughtcatalog.com
“I don’t believe in love at first sight but I do believe in seeing someone from across the room and knowing instantly that they’re going to matter to you. They’re going to play a major role in your life.”— Ryan O’Connell, thoughtcatalog.com
“Love will make you into the best and worst version of yourself, often in the same night.”— Ryan O'Connell, thoughtcatalog.com
“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.”— Ryan O'Connell, thoughtcatalog.com
“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.”— Ryan O'Connell, thoughtcatalog.com
“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.”— Ryan O'Connell, thoughtcatalog.com
“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.”— Ryan O'Connell, thoughtcatalog.com
“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.”— Ryan O'Connell, thoughtcatalog.com
“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.'”— Ryan O'Connell, thoughtcatalog.com
“Stop thinking that everyone is having more sex than you, that everyone has more friends than you, that everyone out is having more fun than you. Not because it’s not true (it might be!) but because that kind of thinking leaves you frozen.”— Ryan O'Connell, thoughtcatalog.com