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Stop stuffing your emotions in your chest. Stop forcing yourself to be strong. Stop playing pretend because there are plenty of benefits of crying.

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Movies make me cry. Some say unnecessarily, so but it is just a fact of who I am.

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“Me: ‘That gap between your front teeth, now that is kinda cute.’
Her: ‘I…have a gap between my front teeth???’
Me: ‘Err, maybe…’”

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My truth is: There is absolutely nothing wrong. Nothing wrong with me feeling my feelings and nothing wrong with me.

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That’s when you start stumbling over your words, getting all the things out, crying out with all the pain you have suppressed when you release all the stress and anxiety that you have tried to hide….the room shifts somehow. It feels more honest. More open. Like you can keep going. Like you should keep going.

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Maybe I used up all the tears I had and there just aren’t any left.

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It’s okay if you have no one to text about what’s wrong, no one that would understand what you’re going through.

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Every idea that moves the world forward seemed crazy the day before it became genius.

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Her tears aren’t a sign of weakness. They’re a sign of fearlessness. Some people don’t have the strength to fall. They hover on the edge of cliffs, afraid of the drop, afraid of what will happen if they let themselves hope they’ll be caught when they reach the bottom.

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Everyone cries while on a bus. You’re fine.