when our emotions exceed that limit, we begin to unconsciously self-sabotage in order to bring ourselves back to a more comfortable baseline.

Instead of worrying about whether we failed or succeeded, enjoyed ourselves or didn’t, realizing that we probably will not remember this specific day — even in the immediate future — helps free us from a bit of the pressure to make it absolutely perfect.

Making a home within yourself is knowing you will always be okay not because everything will go the way you initially planned, but because you will adapt even if it doesn’t.

We can run to the ends of the earth and still not feel whole because what we were looking for was a reinvention of the way we see, what we perceive, and how we feel.

You are not meant for the people who leave you, you are not always at fault for the people who have left, and you are not broken for those who have faded into the distance. Embracing the ebb and flow of life, and the impermanence of it all, is the way you will learn to love people when you have them and be grateful for them when you don’t.

Sometimes, what we learn from being different is more important than what we’d learn from fitting in.

You will have to stay precisely where you are and learn to mend the wound of your unworthiness before you can be loved.

A misstep isn’t the worst thing that can happen. Refusing to move forward is.

The process of getting out of denial is also the process of getting into alignment.