Ellen Nguyen

Don’t worry about not knowing what you want; Focus instead on what you can do right now.

Keep going because if you don’t, you will live a life full of what-ifs, of envy, a life of a coward that admits defeat at the first failure.

Give yourself the permission to screw up and feel. Know that it’s okay to make a fool of yourself. It’s okay to not get things right.

How do you know when something you like to do is actually your calling? That one thing that has always been there with you, something naturally in you, authentically you, something that drives you, energizes you, fulfills you?

Without mistakes, you would never be able to learn and find out what works for you. At least you have tried and dared to try.

When you truly like someone, they might not know you do. At least not vocally. Not so soon yet. Because you’re not going to throw your words around like it doesn’t mean a thing.

There will be hardship. There will be obstacles. There will be days your mind takes you to a very dark place and you want to end everything but you need to remember that I have been there before.

It’s the shame how people ruin an otherwise great relationship by being impatient for a label or those L words especially when it’s only been barely a few months.

It scares you because you don’t know how much power it has over you, especially when it’s a love that’s left undone, that remains a possibility and millions of what-ifs.

I became the girl who was in love with a guy who didn’t see me the same way, the girl who was too smart to lie to herself but did it anyway, and the girl who never quite knows how to let go.

Wait for the kind of touch that makes all efforts worth it.

I believe, If I’m good enough, I will shine no matter what, and there will always be something to learn anyway.