#owing

Why wait? So precious is this life—this gift—this temporary blindness. Burn and drown and embrace the false dark, then grasp the unthinkable height of resulting joy. For in the end, in the light of truth when the flesh is cast off, there is nothing but this. ↗

— Jennifer DeLucy

#encouragement #faith #finding-joy #growing-up #hard-times

She's not a baby anymore, my love, said Tarik softly. That's what we have to accept, you and I. ↗

— Soheir Khashoggi

#love

An amazing thing happens when you stop seeking approval and validation: You find it. People are naturally drawn like magnets to those who know who they are and cannot be shaken! ↗

— Mandy Hale

#being-yourself #confidence #knowing-who-you-are #loving-yourself #seeking-validation

A girl who truly knows herself is a girl that everybody else wants to know. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#confidence #finding-yourself #knowing-yourself #positive-thinking #self-acceptance

When you refuse to settle for less than the best...the best tends to track you down. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#knowing-your-worth #life #living-your-best #not-settling #positive-thinking

Too easy to get = Just as easy to forget. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#easy-to-get #hard-to-get #holding-out-for-the-best #knowing-your-worth #not-settling

A woman of seven and twenty, said Marianne, after pausing a moment, can never hope to feel or inspire affection again. ↗

— Jane Austen

#marianne-dashwood #inspirational

You read and write and sing and experience, thinking that one day these things will build the character you admire to live as. You love and lose and bleed best you can, to the extreme, hoping that one day the world will read you like the poem you want to be. ↗

— Charlotte Eriksson

#changing #growing-up #growth #journey #leaving

My belief in ghosts swings with the wind. But my belief that the cemetery felt happy and not sad—I've never changed my mind about that. ↗

— Carol Plum-Ucci

#change

There you go: Someone who puts «positive thinking» and «shit» in the same concept can inspire some serious eye-rolling if you're the type who works at keeping your thought-life healthy. ↗

— Carol Plum-Ucci

#inspirational