She realized she could no longer carry the weight of other people's expectation or the responsibility for their happiness. She realized she could decide to be at peace herself. And she could care for herself well. She practiced listening and loving and also setting healthy boundaries. She stopped wearing things to make herself look slimmer or hipper and began to wear laughter and curiosity instead. She grew happy. - unknown

We think that the point is to pass the test or overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don't really get solved. They come together and they fall apart. Then they come together and they fall apart again. It's just like that. The healing comes from letting there be room for all this to happen: room for grief, for relief, for misery, for joy. - Pema Chodron

Fall in love with taking care of yourself. Fall in love with the path of deep healing. Fall in love with becoming the best version of yourself but with patience, with compassion and respect to your own journey. - S. McNutt

Happiness turned to me and said- "It's time. It is time to forgive yourself for all the things you did not become. It is time to exonerate yourself for all the people you could't save, for all of the fragile hearts you fumbled with in the dark of your confusion. It is time, child, to accept that you do not have to be who you were a year ago, that you do not have to want the same things. Above all else, it it time to believe, with reckless abandon, that you are worthy of me, for I have been waiting of years. - Bianca Sparacino

Take being called crazy as a compliment. It means you've found the courage to be yourself when so many others have not. - Brooke Hampton

Everything time you feel yourself being pulled into other people's nonsense, repeat these words: ' not my circus, not my monkeys. ' - Polish Proverb

Never let the things you want make you forget the things you have. - unknown

The idea behind a kaledoscope is that it's a structure that 's filled with broken bits and pieces, and somehow if you can look through them, you still see something beautiful. And I feel like we are all that way a little bit. - Sara Bareilles