“Have the strength to look into the mirror, even through your worst days, and to smile. Because you are alive. And you are you.”— Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, thoughtcatalog.com
“Don’t let life break down your spirit. And please, don’t let it take the love you have for yourself away. Don’t let it diminish the light inside of you. Don’t let it drop your hope. Don’t let it break the faith that you have in yourself.”— Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, thoughtcatalog.com
“You need to believe in yourself even when someone is against you. You need to stand up for yourself even in times of silence. You need to love yourself even through the difficult and long days that try to break you.”— Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, thoughtcatalog.com
“You aren’t going to feel like this forever. Life will hand you every up and down it wants to give to you. Life will shower you with kindness, and then will bring your world under a rain cloud that doesn’t stop for weeks. You’ll go from loving life to hating it through the years. But don’t let life m…”— Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, thoughtcatalog.com
“It’s time to breathe easier and lighter. It’s time to set new goals and dreams and it’s time to truly forgive yourself for everything you held on to for so long. Forgive yourself for the missed opportunities and create new ones. Forgive yourself for the relationships you ruined and don’t let that ha…”— Becca Martin, thoughtcatalog.com
“Write everything down, pour your heart out in that journal and don’t stop until you feel free. Until you feel you’ve finally released all your thoughts and you can breathe easier. Then light the pages on fire and watch them burn in front of your eyes. Forget about them. Let the thoughts go. Forgive…”— Becca Martin, thoughtcatalog.com
“Let it all go with everything you have inside your chest, every piece of anxiety you’re holding on to and every ounce of anger you feel towards yourself along and the world. Just breathe it all out and let it disappear into the air.”— Becca Martin, thoughtcatalog.com