#ours

If I love you, what business is it of yours? ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#i #i love #i love you #love #love you

Why did I sign up for this?" "Because we grow by challenging ourselves ↗

— Beth Fantaskey

#grow #mature #ourselves #us #dating

If you believe in peace, act peacefully; if you believe in love, acting lovingly; if you believe every which way, then act every which way, that's perfectly valid - but don't go out trying to sell your beliefs to the system. You end up contradicting what you profess to believe in, and you set a bum example. If you want to change the world, change yourself. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#change

I find the best way to love someone is not to change them, but instead, help them reveal the greatest version of themselves. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#change #choices #compassion #greatest-version #happiness

Life's too short to live someone else's ↗

— Nathan W. Morris

#dreams #inspirational #life-s-short #live-life-on-your-own-terms #live-life-to-the-fullest

Don't look for society to give you permission to be yourself. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#life #permission #society #experience

Life is painful and messed up. It gets complicated at the worst of times, and sometimes you have no idea where to go or what to do. Lots of times people just let themselves get lost, dropping into a wide open, huge abyss. But that's why we have to keep trying. We have to push through all that hurts us, work past all our memories that are haunting us. Sometimes the things that hurt us are the things that make us strongest. A life without experience, in my opinion, is no life at all. And that's why I tell everyone that, even when it hurts, never stop yourself from living. ↗

— Alysha Speer

#finding-yourself #friends #life #living #lost

We must be free, but to have real freedom, you must be wild and free yourself. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#freedom #love-yourself #out-of-the-box #freedom

I was the Duff. And that was a good thing. Because anyone who didn't feel like the Duff must not have friends. Every girl feels unattractive sometimes. Why had it taken me so long to figure that out? Why had I been stressing over that dumb word for so long when it was so simple? I should be proud to be the Duff. Proud to have great friends who, in their minds, were my Duffs. ↗

— Kody Keplinger

#friends #friendship #self-confidence #yourself #youth

My parents say you’re no good, Elijah.” I exhaled and killed the cigarette in the grass. Laughing, Eli’s eyes went to my lips and his hands touched my bare midriff. “Really? And what do you say?” He had brought his lips so close to mine that it became hard to think about my next words when all I wanted to do was crush my mouth to his. I wanted him to completely consume me. “I think you’re broken,” I finally got out, and Eli arched a brow. “But I think I’m broken too. I just don’t know it yet. ↗

— Nadège Richards

#death #discovery #falling-in-love #finding-yourself #growing-up