For chasing your dreams instead of sacrificing yours for his.

You’ve recognized this resilient wall I’ve built and I respect the fact that you haven’t tried to re-create a blueprint to fit your own personal needs.

Just like everybody else, she’s a human being who wants to be loved and in a great nurturing relationship with a wonderful man.

You are seeing the tendency towards self-criticism for what it is — the product of a conditioned mind and the result of less-than-uplifting life experiences.

Lovers come and go, but my sense of who I am remains the same.

Who we are as people is not comprised of the negative pieces of our lives, but the positive. By the ways we’ve stood back up after being pushed down, risen after falling. By the way we’ve continued, and never given up.

You are more than the ones who couldn’t love you with the same tenacity, who couldn’t promise forever, who couldn’t fight. You are more than a bleeding heart, letting yourself spill for people who don’t see your worth. You are more than this.

She won’t be afraid to tell you when you’re being an ass.

Stop waiting for the right person, right career, right opportunity to fall in her lap.

Negative self-talk, even in the wake of failure.