Holly Riordan

If someone cannot handle your love, they don’t deserve your love.

No, you can’t fix whatever is wrong, you can’t solve the problem for them — but you can be their shoulder to cry on. You can be there to listen while they rant. You can remind them that no matter what happens you’re going to be standing by their side. 

Maybe you’re successful in ways that are much harder to measure.

You shouldn’t put effort into someone who refuses to put in effort of their own.

Your instinct might be to protect your heart and keep your guard high, but you can’t stay closed off forever.

You assume they are out of your league. You assume they wouldn’t have any interest in you. You assume they would break your heart. So you don’t even try to get to know them. You run away without even giving them a chance. 

Which movie can you quote the most lines from? 

You have intense mood swings because you aren’t taking proper care of yourself. You aren’t stopping to recharge. You aren’t pausing to deal with your problems. You’re ignoring everything other than your work because the only thing you care about is your productivity.

You have to learn to stop feeling like you’re a failure if you don’t get a million things done each day. You have to stop pushing yourself past your own limits.

You have already done the hardest part by walking away from them. However, that does not mean the rest of your journey is going to be easy.

You owe it to yourself to listen to what your gut is telling you, to explore your options, to turn your daydreams into a reality.

You’re able to see both the good and bad sides of a person.

You don’t want to be with someone who accuses you of overreacting or leaves the room whenever you get emotional.

Even though you’ve been taught that you should never quit, quitting can actually be a type of freedom. You shouldn’t continue down a career path that makes you miserable, just like you shouldn’t keep people in your life who make you miserable.

It’s not enough that you’ve hurt me. You had to turn everyone against me, too.

You shouldn’t settle for someone you feel iffy about because you are convinced they’re the only one who is ever going to show interest in you.

You don’t have to accept half their love and half their attention because you feel like that’s as good as you’re going to get.

You don’t call it quits because things have gotten too hard. You don’t assume you are destined to remain in the same place for the rest of your existence. You don’t lose faith in yourself.