You will start feeling like enough when you start setting the standards for your life and then reaching to meet them.

Sometimes, the setback is the wake-up call you need to save your life.

Then remember all of the nights you dreamed of being where you are right now. The days you spent working and planning and hoping that it would all work out. In one way or another, a path was made where it did not exist before. The opportunities showed up. The doors creaked open.

You were awakened to reality, which is sometimes cold, and sometimes hard, and sometimes brutally unfair.

life that is yours. The truth is that right here, right now, right as you are — you are

You are far more defined by your daily routine than you are whether or not you moved someplace in particular or accomplished something in particular all by an equally particular point in time.

but people are most apt to completely embarrass themselves and make detrimental decisions for their long-term wellbeing when they’re most in emotional pain.

That, right there, is the magic of heartbreak: it forces you to be a different person. Unless you want to mourn forever, you have to change. And if you do it right, you’ll work on becoming the person you always wanted to be.

When we are most uncomfortable in our lives, it is often because life is demanding a better version of us start showing up.