Kelly Bishop

Writing in a journal regularly can help improve your mood, stress levels, and depression symptoms.

We tend to feel justified about big purchases because we work hard and earn it. But if you don’t set limits on your spending, than that number in your account will never grow.

Atonement by Ian McEwan: This is one of my favorite books. It’s probably one of the most heartbreaking love stories ever written.

You’re never satisfied with your writing, or your life

Harboring the past is toxic. Holding onto guilt, resentment, shame, or any other negative emotion without having any way to change it will drive you insane and you will never live happily.

We have to stop waiting for something good to happen and actually go ahead and make it happen. We have to stop settling for “fine.”

As a hopeless romantic who was born in the wrong century and knows I’ll never receive one of these, I’ve compiled some of the best quotes from love letters throughout history.

The writing process is a lonely and grueling one. But nothing is more frustrating than not being able to move past a single sentence.

“How long has it been since you wrote a story where your real love or your real hatred somehow got onto the paper?

I’m embracing the chaos, the uncertainty, the unknown. If you don’t, if you have high expectations for your future, nothing will ever be good enough.

You don’t have the urge to text them when you’re drunk. Even drunk-texting them to say, “I’m over you,” is a telling sign you are not. But when you get to the point when you don’t even think of them after a few cocktails, you’re on the right path to freedom.

I’m happy, I’m positive, I’m optimistic, and I’m depressed.