“Stop making excuses for people treating you like shit. Demand respect and you'll get it.”— S. Usher Evans, amazon.com
“Nobody will protect you from your suffering. You can't cry it away or eat it away or starve it away or walk it away or punch it away or even therapy it away. It's just there, and you have to survive it.”— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.com
“I was nothing. No one looked forward to seeing me in the morning. No one laid his head on his pillow at night to dream of me.”— Teresa Mummert, amazon.com
“There is nothing shameful about loving yourself. The shame is in NOT loving the unique and brilliant individual that you are.”— Miya Yamanouchi, amazon.com
“A gentleman holds my hand. A man pulls my hair. A soulmate will do both.”— Alessandra Torre, amazon.com
“If you don't try to make it right, she might start to believe the lie you've told her and spend the rest of her life thinking she deserves poor treatment.”— Josh Shipp, amazon.com
“Happiness comes as the result of conflict, resolution, and growth — as the result of having to work at something.”— Chrissy Stockton, thoughtcatalog.com
“I lied when I told you we could be friends. I was just trying to be mature. I was just trying to find a way not to lose you.”— Rania Naim, thoughtcatalog.com
“I always fear letting someone that close to me. Close enough that they become a routine.”— Kirsten Corley, thoughtcatalog.com
“It’s rare to find someone who both feels like home yet gives you butterflies like kissing someone for the first time.”— Leena Sanders, thoughtcatalog.com
“You don’t have to ‘try’ to be anything when you are with your soul mate because they are looking for who you are, not for who you are trying to be.”— Kate McGahan, amazon.com
“What a strange world this is when you can have as much sex as you like but love is taboo.”— Jeanette Winterson, amazon.com
“We’re so afraid of becoming too vulnerable through regular expressions of love. We’re afraid to open up with our hearts to give and receive love.”— Emily Perrott, thoughtcatalog.com
“Your twenties are meant for making mistakes and experiencing new things in order to figure out what you want and do not want to be a part of your future.”— A. Davis, instagram.com
“I know that it’s discouraging to see people younger than you are putting their life together without an instruction manual, but it’s okay to not know how everything is supposed to connect yet.”— Caitlin Conlon, thoughtcatalog.com
“We put people on pedestals. We WANT to believe the best of them. But when they tell you who they are, LISTEN.”— Kristin Rattigan, thoughtcatalog.com