Holly Riordan

You owe it to yourself to listen to what your gut is telling you, to explore your options, to turn your daydreams into a reality.

You’re able to see both the good and bad sides of a person.

You don’t want to be with someone who accuses you of overreacting or leaves the room whenever you get emotional.

Even though you’ve been taught that you should never quit, quitting can actually be a type of freedom. You shouldn’t continue down a career path that makes you miserable, just like you shouldn’t keep people in your life who make you miserable.

It’s not enough that you’ve hurt me. You had to turn everyone against me, too.

You shouldn’t settle for someone you feel iffy about because you are convinced they’re the only one who is ever going to show interest in you.

You don’t have to accept half their love and half their attention because you feel like that’s as good as you’re going to get.

You don’t call it quits because things have gotten too hard. You don’t assume you are destined to remain in the same place for the rest of your existence. You don’t lose faith in yourself.

Toxic people are so hard to walk away from because there are plenty of good qualities to cancel out their bad qualities — but you can’t pay too much attention to how they treat you on their good days and completely ignore how horribly they treat you on their bad days.

You’ve been tricked into thinking that your emotions are wrong, that your gut feelings are wrong, that everything about you is wrong, wrong, wrong. 

There are moments when  bad timing is simply procrastination. It’s your fear grabbing ahold of you.

When you love someone, you don’t distance yourself from them emotionally. You don’t put up a wall, shutting them out. You don’t allow your fears from past experiences cloud your current relationship.

You can forgive this person without allowing them back into your world, without giving them another chance, without acting like everything is okay between the two of you again.

You don’t understand why the relationship ended. You don’t understand why they treated you the way they treated you. Maybe if you understood it would be easier to deal with the pain.

You don’t want to fall for them again and break up with them again over and over on a loop. You are better than that self-destructive cycle. You deserve more than that illusion of love.

The only way you know for sure you aren’t going to reach your dreams is if you stop trying, stop putting in effort, stop risking failure. 

Sometimes, letting go means you’re brave enough to be honest with yourself. It means you’re wise enough to see when something isn’t working.

When someone you love won’t let you help them, you have to take a step back and remind yourself it’s not your responsibility to save them.