honesty.

I’m not always as confident as I seem. There are many nights and many days when all I want is to be held. I love being held. Always. Sometimes I don’t want to talk about what is bothering me. Sometimes I just want a hug. Someone who will let me cry. I don’t like when people run from their true feelings because it doesn’t do anyone any good. I wear my heart on my sleeve, but I am not naive. I know what it feels like to be completely broken and I am all too familiar with what it means to be hurt. I know what it’s like to see something funny and not laugh. I’ve been taken advantage of, used, and abused. My feelings have been blatantly disregarded. But I still believe that all people are good at heart. And my trust in people has not diminished. To be completely honest, I hope it never does. Ever.

take risks.

the best things in life don't happen unless you take risks. risk yourself and throw your heart out onto the table. be who you are and hope people accept you. if they don't, too bad. always be real, never be fake. smile when you're happy, cry when you're sad. never hold emotions inside. let yourself risk getting hurt. let yourself try something new. follow your heart and do what you feel is right, not what other people tell you to do. fall in love, take a chance. hope the other person feels the same. love is a risk. it could bring either pleasure or pain, sometimes both. life is a gamble. you never know what it'll bring. live in the moment and don't dwell on the past. find the good in everybody. think positive, do positive. break the rules and take the chance of getting caught.

I see lots of things, except your point.

I'm not the silly romantic you think. I don't want the heavens or shooting stars. I don't want gemstones or gold. I have those things already. I want a steady hand. A kind soul. I want to fall asleep, and wake, knowing my heart is safe. I want to love and be loved. I'm not the girl next door or your average teenage slut. There's enough of those already.

land of make believe.

Sometimes the only way to stay sane is to go a little crazy.

There comes a point in life where you either accept whatever you’re doing and just exist, or stop talking about what you used to be and do something completely different. You have only one life to do whatever you want with. In one hundred years no one will remember the stupid mistakes you made, so make a fool of yourself while you still have the chance because if you spend all your life trying to be the coolest kid around you will never be happy with yourself. I've learned that no matter how much i care, some people are just assholes. I've learned that it takes years to build up trust, and it only takes suspicion, not proof, to destroy it. I've learned that you shouldn't compare yourself to others; they are more screwed up than you think. I've learned that the people you care most about in life are taken from you too soon, and all the less important ones just never go away. I've changed. Maybe things do happen for a reason, maybe they don't. But no matter what, they still happen. That's what we need to remember. I learned to stop analyzing things, to just let them happen. And if I get hurt, or if something bad happens, then it happens. There's nothing I can do to change that. I've learned to go with my gut, and that it's okay to make mistakes because the ones that matter won't care. I've learned that love really is as great as they say it is. I've learned that your friends can save you from your worst enemy: yourself. And most importantly, I've learned that today is all we have.

get inspiration where no one else will look for it.

I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. They don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowing. I learned that things don't always turn out the way you planned, or the way you think they should. And I've learned that there are things that go wrong that don't always get fixed or get put back together the way they were before. I've learned that some broken things stay broken, and I've learned that you can get through bad times and keep looking for better ones, as long as you have people who love you.

don't follow the crowd, stay true to yourself.

Figure out who you are separate from your family and the man you’re in a relationship with. Find who you are in this world and what you need to feel good alone. I think that’s the most important thing in life. Find a sense of self, because with that, you can do anything.

the only magic i still believe in is love.

be yourself. everyone else is already taken.

You want to know what living life to the fullest actually is? It's waking up on monday morning with no complaints. It's knowing you always deserve to laugh. It's doing what feel right no matter what. It's doing what you want to, no matter how stupid you look. It's about being yourself, because no one can tell you you're doing it wrong. I want to create beautiful things. I want to change someone's life. No, I want to change many lives. I want to know that because of something I did, someone was deeply affected, in a good way. I want to know what I'm capable of. Most girls say they want a fairy tale, but not me. That's not really what I want. I want someone who will make fun of me and laugh at my jokes even if they aren't funny. Someone who will wrestle with me and not let me win just because I'm a girl. Yeah, riding off into the sunset on a white horse would be nice but playing thumb-war with someone who cares about you just as much as you care about them seems so much better. I love the feeling after a good run away from trouble. Or the feeling when my favorite song is on full blast in the car. I like traveling to nowhere, getting lost, and then the best part, being found. I like being held by someone who means a lot to me, especially when I haven't seen them in awhile. We always complain there isn't enough time. Or that these moments never come around enough. Thats true. It's true that we never stop growing old, and we mature faster than we'd like. But time is the essence of life, and it brings change and surprise. I like watching the people I care for get older, change, become who they're suppose to be. Sometimes we all wish to go back, to repeat a moment, or pause it forever. Even just hit replay. But we need change, even when we don't want it. The cards are placed and time brings us closer to our destination. All the while as we travel through, the things we love doing, the people we share our life with, that's the destiny. We're not suppose to end up anywhere, we're suppose to make the best of this journey. Because no one makes it out alive.

The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings but shorter tempers, wider freeways, but narrower viewpoints. We spend more, but have less, we buy more, but enjoy less. We have more degrees but less sense, more knowledge, but less judgment, more experts, yet more problems, more medicine, but less wellness. We drink too much, smoke too much, spend too recklessly, laugh too little, drive too fast, hate too often, and love too seldom. We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values. We've learned how to make a living, but not a life. We conquered outer space but not inner space. We've done larger things, but not better things.We've cleaned up the air, but polluted the soul. We've conquered the atom, but not our prejudice. These are the times of fast foods and slow digestion, big men and small character, steep profits and shallow relationships. These are the days of two incomes but more divorce, fancier houses, but broken homes. These are days of quick trips, disposable diapers, throwaway morality, one night stands, overweight bodies, and pills that do everything from cheer, to quiet, to kill. It is a time when there is much in the showroom window and nothing in the stockroom. Give time to love, give time to speak, and give time to share the precious thoughts in your mind. Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.