Shani Jayawardena

Self-love called me home to my heart. 

I want you to know it’s okay to feel shit sometimes, y’know?

On the days when you feel unloved, know that love will never ever give up on you.

All I know are women who have in time woken up to the realization that this is their world just as much as it is anybody else’s.

Tough love was the relentless, air gasping grip on my throat, as I stood up in front of you and somehow managed to speak my truth for the very first time, instead of what you wanted to hear.

I hope you allow the love that surrounds you every day to fill every crevice of you up, overflowing into the souls you cross paths with. 

I miss the time before I met you, when I wouldn’t have missed a damn thing.

I will not swallow my truth. Because each time you do, your voice, your heart, and your soul shrink a little more.

Love someone who offers you forever – if that’s what you crave – and shows you every day that they’re not planning on disappearing.

We are the creators of our destiny. We have the power to dream bigger and to dream better.

You deserve a love that lasts this time.

Find something to smile about. Anything. There are so many things. You’re alive.

Do everything with love. It’s true what they say – how you do one thing is how you do everything.

There are bigger problems than being partial to doughnuts.

Only a man who genuinely cares about you will behave this way.

You probably know of at least one couple who fell in love this way.

The women who are riddled with fears, but will never allow that fear to hold them back in any way.

Someday soon, someone else is going to wake up to you first thing in the morning when you feel the least attractive you’ve ever felt, and they’re going to tell you you’re beautiful.