Happy International Women’s Day! 🌼🌸🌷🌺💐

For the most part, you don't hold the people you love in your heart because they rescued you from drowning or pulled you from a burning house. Mostly you hold them in your heart because they save you, in a million quiet and perfect ways, from being alone.

Jeff Zentner, Goodbye Days

A soulmate is someone who is willing to grow with you, who chooses to be with you until the end, and will love you through good and bad. It’s not about sunshine and laughter, it’s about mundane moments filled with unknowns.

T.B. LaBerge

Speak your mind, even if your voice shakes.

Maggie Kuhn

It is only once in a while that you see someone whose electricity and presence matches yours at that moment.

Charles Bukowski

You must want to spend the rest of your life with yourself first.

Rupi Kaur, Milk and Honey

When I say, I love you, it’s not because I want you or because I can’t have you. It has nothing to do with me. I love what you are, what you do, how you try. I’ve seen your kindness and your strength. I’ve seen the best and the worst of you. And I understand with perfect clarity exactly what you are.

Joss Whedon

The hardest battle you will ever have to fight is between who you are now and who you want to be.

Let them judge you. Let them misunderstand you. Let them gossip about you. Their opinions aren’t your problems. You stay kind, committed to love and free in your authenticity. No matter what they do or say, don’t you doubt your worth or the beauty of your truth. Just keep shining like you always do.

Scott Stabile

Nothing ever ends poetically. It ends and we turn it into poetry. All that blood was never once beautiful. It was just red.

Kait Rokowski

You either like me or you don’t. It took me twenty-something years to learn how to love myself, I don’t have that kinda time to convince somebody else.

Daniel Franzese

When you feel like giving up sometimes, the universe connects like a dot-to-dot puzzle. You let out that sigh and a breeze carries it to the sky, whispering secretly to the clouds, but the sun listens and suddenly, the whole world is shining upon you.

Ekta Somera

Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Love grows from stable relationships, shared experience, loyalty, devotion, trust.

Richard Wright