#yours

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

Giving materialistically is the soft option, but when you give from what you do for others then your reward is immeasurable contentment. ↗

— Stephen Richards

#giving-love #giving-your-best #giving-yourself #stephen-richards #stephen-richards-self-help

We carried bottled water and day packs and cameras, except for Fred, who said he didn’t believe in taking photographs; he planned to store his memories in his head, an idea I found incomprehensibly radical. My impulse to record was almost on par with my impulse to travel ↗

— Elisabeth Eaves

#love

I'd rather be hated for who I am than loved for who I'm not ↗

— Kurt Cobain

#love

You were never born with a silver spoon in your mouth. Don't think that way. You were born with a diamond spoon in your palm. Carry it by your own hand. Now, feed yourself ↗

— Israelmore Ayivor

#best #carry #diamond #diamond-spoon #efforts

It takes your knowing to decide on your going. If you know where you are going, you will keep going because you have already seen yourself gone ↗

— Israelmore Ayivor

#decision #destination #destiny #don-t-give-up #extra

Whoever you end up with, you shouldn't be changing a thing for them. Nothing. Don't be with anyone if you can't be you. Because you're bang on just as you are.  ↗

— Lucy Robinson

#change

Before you can be anything, you have to be yourself. That's the hardest thing to find. ↗

— E.L. Konigsburg

#self-discovery #self-discovery