“I remember wanting to hold your hand and kiss you and tell you things that I had never told anyone before. I think that’s how I knew I loved you. Yeah. I think that’s it.”
— Sue Zhao
“If outside validation is your only source of nourishment, you will hunger for the rest of your life.”
— Unknown
you are not a second choice – you are wonderful and bright and important
“I knew I did from the first moment we met. It was… not love at first sight exactly, but- familiarity. Like: oh, hello, it’s you. It’s going to be you.”
— Mhairi McFarlane
“True friendship takes us by the hand and reminds us we are not alone on the journey.”
— Unknown
“If I have learned anything in this long life of mine, it is this: in love we find out who we want to be; in war we find out who we are.”
— Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale
“To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.”
— Thich Nhat Hanh (via marijuanamodels)
“When a flower doesn’t bloom, you fix the environment in which it grows, not the flower.”
— Alexander Den Heijer