These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them.

Rumi

Appreciate those who don’t give up on you.

Unknown

Some hearts understand each other even in silence.

Yasmine Mogahed

If you light a lamp for someone else it will also brighten your path.

Unknown

I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

Maya Angelou

When a toxic person can no longer control you, they will try to control how others see you. This misinformation will feel unfair, but stay above it, trusting that other people will eventually see the truth - just like you did.

Unknown

The person you will be in 5 years is based on the books you read and the people you surround yourself with today.

Unknown

I think you still love me, but we can’t escape the fact that I’m not enough for you. I knew this was going to happen. So I’m not blaming you for falling in love with another woman. I’m not angry, either. I should be, but I’m not. I just feel pain. A lot of pain. I thought I could imagine how much this would hurt, but I was wrong.

Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun

You deserve someone who answers.

Unknown

It’s better to be your genuine self, and have fewer of the right kinds of people in your life, than it is to surround yourself with those who only accept you as long as you conform to their idea of who you should be.

Zero Dean

I learned not to trust people; I learned not to believe what they say but to watch what they do. I learned to suspect that everyone is capable of living a lie. I came to believe that other people - even when you think you know them well - are ultimately unknowable.

Lynn Barber

I’m afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.

Andy Warhol

The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth.

Alfred Adler

I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.

Og Mandino

Sometimes you have to do what’s best for you, not what’s best for somebody else.

Unknown

Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.

Mark Twain

Do you want to meet the love of your life? Look in the mirror.

Unknown

I will not think less of myself just because you do not know how to love me.

Unknown

Listen to a person when they look at you, not just when they’re talking to you.

Unknown

Be nice to yourself. It’s hard to be happy when someone is mean to you all the time.

Unknown