“Resistance to pain is also resistance to pleasure.”

Stop giving people access to your life when they refuse to handle you with care.

Move on – but keep in mind that history repeats itself, unless you choose to break the cycle.

Don’t let them fill with you up false hope and empty promises. People pour their heart out through their actions; not their words.

Stop blaming yourself for the things you did before you learned to love yourself.

When you cannot change a situation, you must change your perception of the person harming you in that situation, to stay in your power.

You always have an opportunity to see the past for what it is, and live freely in today.

When you open up your heart, they call you soft, even though it’s the hardest thing to do.

It is okay to feel sad even at Christmas time.

Until you heal, it will hold you hostage.

There are no toxic people, only toxic patterns.

Proud yourself when you find the courage to let go of that harmful person that you carry for so long.

Self-love means to appreciate who you are, while being committed to your evolution.

You are not hard to love. You are just stuck in a cycle of asking for it from the wrong person.

We have to learn to spot the difference and reflect often.

Appreciate people when you see their struggle, not only when you see them successful.

An expectation is a hidden agenda with control at its root.

The really painful surprise is that so many people based their hopes on his words, rather than on the record of his deeds.

Sorrows are our best educator. A man can see further through a tear than a telescope.

There is a secret medicine given only to those who hurt so hard they can’t hope.

Learning is not child’s play; we cannot learn without pain.

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.

Too much pleasure is pain.

She always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day.

Disappointments feel like home.