#out

Even to me the issue of "stay small, sweet, quiet, and modest" sounds like an outdated problem, but the truth is that women still run into those demands whenever we find and use our voices. ↗

— Brené Brown

#voice #women #women-s-strength #courage

Know yourself fearlessly (even quietly) for all the things you are. ↗

— Aberjhani

#encouragement #famous-poets #famous-quotes #fear #inspiration

I'm a lion in a strange land. ↗

— Criss Jami

#awkwardness #beast #courage #different #earth

I don’t think I’ve ever referred to any girl I dated as my girlfriend. I think that would freak me out. Even the girl that I dated for two years in college I don’t think I ever referred to her as my girlfriend.” “How would you introduce her?” I asked. “I’m just going to say her name,” he said. ↗

— Daniel Amory

#chicago #city #contemporary #downtown #dream

All over Atlanta that fall, in the blue twilights, girls came clicking home from their jobs in their clunky heels and miniskirts and opened their apartment windows to the winesap air, and got out ice cubes, and put on Petula Clark singing 'Downtown', and sat down to wait. Soon the young men would come, drifting out of their bachelor apartments in Bermuda shorts and Topsiders, carrying beers and gin and tonics, looking for a refill and a a date and the keeping of promises that hung in the bronze air like fruit on the eve of ripeness. ↗

— Anne Rivers Siddons

#south #dating

Outside of note passing and the occasional tight-lipped kiss after school events, "going together" in seventh grade was pretty meaningless. You couldn't drive, had nowhere to go, and either weren't allowed or couldn't afford to do anything. I was kind of like being an old married couple, except you could control you bowels and stay awake past 8 p.m. ↗

— Eric Nuzum

#romance #youth #dating

The right one for you will move mountains to be with you - he won't hide behind them. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#holding-out-for-the-best #love #mr-right #not-settling #relationships

If a man WANTS to be with you, he will make his actions clear. There won’t be any questions, murkiness, cloudiness, or fear. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#he-s-just-not-that-into-you #holding-out-for-the-best #love #not-settling #positive-thinking

Sometimes it takes a heartbreak to shake us awake & help us see we are worth so much more than we're settling for. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#dating #heartbreak #holding-out-for-the-best #letting-go #love

Breakups have a way of shaking us awake and helping us see what we really want vs. what we are willing to settle for. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#breakups #dating #going-through-a-breakup #holding-out-for-the-best #honoring-yourself