Remember that you feel this way for a reason, that there are multi-billion dollar industries profiting off your insecurity, and that you’ve viewed thousands of ads produced by those industries since you were a child. Your lack of confidence has been manufactured. And you don’t have to accept it. You can rebel. You can seek self love. You can dare to reclaim the parts of yourself society has told you to destroy.

—The Femme-inist (via internal-acceptance-movement)

(via unapologetically-human)

There is strength in the ability to remain soft after the world has tried relentlessly to toughen you up.

—Noor Shirazie (via aestheticintrovert)

(via unapologetically-human)

But at some point you have to stop being so angry, you have to stop being so sad, you have to stop killing yourself and start being gentle with yourself. At some point you have to just let it all go and be happy, you have to spread love instead of being afraid of it. You have to love yourself and everyone around you before its too late. Dont waste away being unhappy over trivial things dear. Dont do it. Dont do it to yourself and dont let other people do it to you.

—(via fawun)

(via silvrstreaked)

The saddest end to a relationship is one where you have to break up with somebody when you’re still in love with them. It sounds bizarre but it happens, because the truth is, as powerful and as thrilling and as wonderful as it may be, love isn’t always enough and to be in love doesn’t always mean you’re happy. You can continue to love someone even after they’ve hurt you, but you know deep inside yourself that it won’t ever be the same again, so at some point, you have to let them go. When is the right time? You never know. That’s the sad part, too. You just have to walk to the edge of it all and jump, learning to grow back the wings you once had on the way down.

—(via the-taintedtruth)

(via the-taintedtruth)

elliemaebenes:

I never thought that day would come, when I would just sit back and watch someone forget about me and not do anything to stop it. My name would slowly disappear from their vocabulary. My voice would no longer get stuck in their head. And I wouldn’t need to be a part of their life anymore.

I…

Never settle with anyone who tells you to stop being so excited, to cheer up, to calm down, to stop feeling sad, or to stay positive. You are allowed to feel different things. You are allowed to feel everything. Anything. All of it. And you should be with someone who cherishes and respects that, no matter what.

—(via these-greatexpectations)

(via the-taintedtruth)