“If We Are The Same Person Before And After We Love, That Means We Haven’t Loved Enough.”

“Some people would rather live in a hell they’ve got used to than in a paradise they’ve never experienced before.”

— Urania Sarri

“The most important day is the day you decide you’re good enough for you. It’s the day you set yourself free.”

— Brittany Josephina

“Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that’s real power.”

— Clint Eastwood

“Not everyone who comes into our life is meant to stay. So stop holding onto people who clearly don’t want to be with you.”

— Unknown

“Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep, really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.”

— Ernest Hemingway

You were suspicious of their feelings because you had no reason to love yourself—not your body, not your mind. You rejected so much gentleness. What were you looking for?

Carmen Maria Machado, from In the Dream House: A Memoir

MILK AND HONEY pt.3