“Stay single until you love yourself enough so that another person’s love makes you joyful and happy and full, but not whole.”— Kim Quindlen, thoughtcatalog.com
“You deserve to get a text back and for days filled with good morning and goodnight texts, to let you know that you’re always on his mind.”— Dorothy Anne Field, thoughtcatalog.com
“Let 2018 be the year you stop texting him. You stop admiring his old photos. Let it be the year you find someone who can repaint the picture of love.”— Anika Munir, thoughtcatalog.com
“Stop telling yourself you are unfit to chase your dreams, unworthy of the love you wish for, undeserving of something truly good. You are the only one who can carve the path for your life—think in a positive direction.”— Marisa Donnelly, thoughtcatalog.com
“It scares me that I can look at you and see a person I might want to share a home with someday, that I can look at you and see home in a person.”— Lacey Ramburger, thoughtcatalog.com
“I’m slowly learning that I can’t force someone to see my worth if they don’t want to because it’s a choice they’re making and trying to prove them wrong means I still don’t value myself enough.”— Rania Naim, thoughtcatalog.com
“You are imperfect, you are wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging.”— Brené Brown, books.google.com
“I have always, essentially, been waiting. Waiting to become something else, waiting to be that person I always thought I was on the verge of becoming, waiting for that life I thought I would have.”— Shauna Niequist, amazon.com
“I am my own biggest critic. Before anyone else has criticized me, I have already criticized myself. But for the rest of my life, I am going to be with me and I don't want to spend my life with someone who is always critical. So I am going to stop being my own critic. It's high time that I accept all…”— C. Joybell C., books.google.com
“You don’t have to marry someone to be happy. You don’t have to get engaged. You don’t even have to find your forever person if you don’t want to.”— Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, thoughtcatalog.com
“Don’t hold your feelings inside. The longer we let pain hide in our hearts, the more it turns to poison.”— Chelsea Sedoti, amazon.com
“Had she not worked enough, loved enough, been enough? Is that why she had lost him?”— Karin Slaughter, amazon.com
“Love, like everything else in life, should be a discovery, an adventure, and like most adventures, you don’t know you’re having one until you’re right in the middle of it.”— E. a. Bucchianeri, amazon.com
“He doesn’t deserve to hear about your day. He doesn’t deserve to hear how you are. He doesn’t deserve anything from you and you owe him nothing at all.”— Molly Burford, thoughtcatalog.com
“In life we are given two choices: we can exist or we can experience what it means to be alive.”— Stephanie Anne, instagram.com
“Who lied, saying you are half? Who fooled you into thinking you are half empty?”— Sana A. Rashid, instagram.com
“Let go of the things that have broken you down and ripped your chest open. You were never meant to keep them.”— Orenda, instagram.com
“Men always want a queen by their side but never in history has a peasant been allowed into the kingdom. The throne is reserved strictly for a king.”— Blanca Moreno ✒️, instagram.com
“The right relationship will not force you to change into someone you’re not, but will just transform you into someone better. It will magnify the uniqueness of your soul.”— Karla Crisostomo, thoughtcatalog.com
“Passion without a true sense of purpose—without direction and a desire to work your ass off—is worthless.”— Mélanie Berliet, thoughtcatalog.com