Kim Quindlen

Scorpio: Your strong confidence and your ability to be so certain and unapologetic about who you are.

Aquarius: Because you’re very careful and cautious with your emotions, and it takes an incredibly special person for you to be willing to open up and let go of your typical sense of detachment and aloofness when it comes to relationships.

Aries (March 21st to April 19th) Putting serious and conscious thought into every decision that you make.

Let go of toxic thoughts, toxic things, toxic people, your own toxic behavior. Focus on being kind, on putting more goodness into the world, on giving and loving and making other people happy and relishing in how happy that makes you in return. Spread love and spread light.

“He was the most selfish person I had ever met, but I liked him so much in the beginning that I let it slide. But that kind of behavior doesn’t ever change, no matter how much they claim to love you.”

Stop wasting your time with people who make you feel small, or not good enough, or like you need to change yourself.

Libra: Because when you’re hangry, she’s the one person who can get you to calm down, with or without food.

Aries: Your absolute thirst for life and your ability to get excited (and get others excited) about anything, from an everyday trip to the grocery store to a backpacking journey around the world.

“Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic. Capable of both inflicting injury, and remedying it.”

Stop settling for a life of sitting still, of watching other people go after what they want while you sit back because you’re too afraid to try.

A ‘soulmate’ is not a specific enough word to describe them. What’s more accurate is that they are, at all times: your best friend, your sounding board, your partner in crime, your therapist, your mentor, your mentee, your favorite comedian, your favorite person to vent to, and the only person you can fully and totally relax around.

That you’re the only person in the world who feels crippling self-doubt, anxiety, insecurity, uncertainty, and every other uncomfortable and paralyzing feeling that comes with being a complicated human.

Because it’s not the same thing as being naive, or being a doormat. What it is is a willingness to learn from the way you’ve been treated, to let it wash over you and then away from you, and to be wary of it in the future but to never let it control you or consume you.

You understand that being busy does not equate to being happy, or being better than someone else.

Aries: The challenge of a totally blank slate and your desire to see the end result of a project, goal, or assignment that you created completely from scratch.

You’re constantly making an effort to improve yourself in small ways, because you understand they have a lasting effect.

“Wouldn’t your depression be better if you just tried to be a little happier?”

Capricorn: The fact that you can take on any task with seemingly minimal effort and little trepidation, and that you have a very surprising silly side that few people see.