Times like these always reveal that the veil of civility is thinner than we thought... but that the hearts of good people are greater than we imagined.
Someone with a victim mindset is always looking for a villain to blame and a situation to suffer from.
As I got older, I started to cut out food that was bad for me. As I got wiser, I did the same with people.
It’s sad that we get attached to the way certain people abuse us. It took me a long time and a lot of heartache to realize that it’s okay to miss someone, but not want them back.
Some people insist on inviting me to their drama buffet... No thanks! My soul hungers for nourishment and growth; it doesn’t lust for poison and depletion.
Nostalgia is your brain’s way of photoshopping the blemishes of your past.
I just got to a point where I decided that I want to live an unbullshitafied life.
I always thought they were a God-send; and they were... But then again, so was the Great Flood.
History reveals there is no moral high ground; there is only perspective. We often exhibit the same behaviors for which we condemn others.
Our thoughts and desires are based in hope, but our behaviors are based in fear. This misalignment often causes a feeling of hopelessness and continues the cycle of feeding outdated ideologies and Guru genres offering gimmicks to anesthetize the pain.
Perspective heals us, perspective empowers us, and if we let it, perspective will make us wiser. We are often built by the same things we thought were destroying us.
We’ll all be better off the day we stop letting unhappy, unsuccessful people tell us how to be happy and successful. You already know the way... follow it.
Social Media isn’t creating the problems in our relationships; it’s only exposing the ones that already existed.
Messy” is a word we use to explain a conflict with an expectation we had. Eliminate the expectation, and you eliminate the “messy”.
When masks fall off, don’t focus on where they fall, focus on who they reveal. If you allow it, chaos will be a great illuminator. Ignore the noise, but pay attention to the direction in which it comes. Situations like this reveal who’s who and what’s what. The noise is just a distraction.
There are some people whose turbulent waves of behavior will drown you no matter how well you think you can swim.
They said, “You’ll never find someone like me again!” I thanked them for wishing me well.
It took me a long time to realize the difference between the people we are drawn to and the people who are good for us.
It took me a long time to learn the difference between working on a healthy relationship and wasting my time on a long goodbye. Never again!
The longer you chase the wrong person, the further you travel in the wrong direction. You’re better than that.