Next Steps...

"Today’s the day my life begins. Today I become a citizen of the world. Today I become a grown up. Today I become accountable to someone other than myself and my parents. Accountable for more than my grades. Today, I become accountable to the world. To the future. To all the possibilities that life has to offer. Starting today, my job is to show up wide eyed and willing and ready. For what, I don’t know. For anything. For everything. To take on life. To take on love. To take on the responsibility and possibility. Today, my friends, our lives begin. And, I for one can’t wait." -Grey's Anatomy

Dear Self,

Forgive yourself. Love yourself. Be yourself.

You are not perfect. No one is perfect. We say the wrong things, and do the wrong things. Yet we find people who love us anyway. It’s hard but stop overthinking, it does no good. Stop believing that life is a movie. It’s not – it’s much better. It’s okay to be afraid but don’t let that stop you. Be your own cheerleader and when you can’t, lean on other people. Live the way you want live. Experience the world and love with all your heart. It will be awesome. It will be okay.

Keep being you.

Love,

Self

Steps and Choices

"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a step..."

Are.

You.

Happy?

"It is never too late to be what you might of been." -George Elliot

Whatever You Do, Wherever You Go, Be You!

"I'm quirky, silly, blunt, and broken. My days are sometimes too dark, and my nights are sometimes too long. I often trip over my own insecurities. I require attention, long for passion, and wish to be desired. I use music to speak when words fail me, even though words are as important to me as the air I breathe. I love hard and with all that I have and even with my faults, I am worth loving." 

-Danu Grayson

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment." 

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"For what it’s worth: it's never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be. There's no time limit, stop whenever you want. you can change or stay the same, there are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. & I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you're proud of. If you find that you're not, I hope you have the courage to start all over again." 

-F. Scott Fitzgerald

"‎No matter how many plans we make or steps we follow we never know how our day is going to end up. We'd prefer to know, of course, what curve balls will be thrown our way. It's the accidents that always turn out to be the most interesting parts of our day. Of life. The people we never expected to show up. The turn of events we never would've chosen for ourselves. All of a sudden, you find yourself somewhere you never expected to be. And it's nice or it takes some getting used to. Still, you know you'll find yourself appreciating it somewhere down the line. So you go to sleep each night thinking about tomorrow. Going over your plans, preparing the lists, and hoping that whatever accidents come your way will be happy ones." 

-Grey's Anatomy

"Be strong when you are weak, be brave when you are scared, be humble when you are victorious, be badass everyday." 

-Unknown

People, People, People

"Look, in my opinion, the best thing you can do is find a person who loves you for exactly what you are. Good mood, bad mood, ugly, pretty, handsome, what have you, the right person is still going to think the sun shines out your ass. That's the kind of person that's worth sticking with." -Juno

"You're the strangest person I ever met, she said, and I said you too, and we decided we'd know each other a long time" -Brian Andreas

"You will never be completely at home again, because part of your heart always will be elsewhere. That is the price you pay for the richness of loving and knowing people in more than one place." -Miriam Adeney

"They are my people. People keep you going. People are better than... no people." -Grey's Anatomy

"You'll need coffee shops and sunsets and road trips. Airplanes and passports and new songs and old songs, but people more than anything else. You will need other people and you will need to be that other person to someone else, a living breathing screaming invitation to believe better things."  -To Write Love on Her Arms

Fear vs Everything Else

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure." -Marianne Williamson

"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do." -Eleanor Roosevelt

“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. The brave may not live forever, but the cautious do not live at all. From now on you'll be traveling the road between who you think you are and who you can be. The key is to allow yourself to make the journey.” -Meg Cabot

"Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it." -Bill Cosby

“There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.” -John Lennon

"Don't give in to your fears. If you do, you won't be able to talk to your heart.” -Paulo Coelho

Moments & Words

"You never know the biggest day of your life is the biggest day. Not until it's happening. You don't recognize the biggest day of your life, not until you're right in the middle of it. The day you commit to something or someone. The day you get your heart broken. The day you meet your soul mate. The day you realize there's not enough time, because you wanna live forever. Those are the biggest days. The perfect days." -Grey's Anatomy

"There came a moment in the middle of the song when she suddenly felt every heartbeat in the room & after that she never forgot she was part of something much bigger." -Brian Andreas