.-' All I had to offer to you was the best of ME.

My only relief is to sleep. When I’m sleeping I’m not sad, I’m not angry, I’m not lonely, I’m nothing.
- Jillian Medoff

"You are going to feel so much love and devotion it’s going to scare you. You aren’t used to being the object of so much tenderness; and maybe you don’t even think you deserve it. But you do. You know you do. Embrace it with open arms and let it wash over you."

"It is not an evil thing to look at yourself with kindness. Your life was never meant to be a punishment."

But boundaries have nothing to do with whether you love someone or not. They are not judgments, punishments, or betrayals.

They are a purely peaceable thing: the basic principles you identify for yourself that define the behaviors that you will tolerate from others, as well as the responses you will have to those behaviors. Boundaries teach people how to treat you and they teach you how to respect yourself.

"I love when I realize that I’m handling a situation better than my old self would have.

.-Limit your expectations because the world is full of disappointments.

"Attachment love is the love you’re actually looking for. It is the love you experience when your partner is your best friend, confidante, and friend. It is the love that you experience when you feel completely comfortable and at ease in your partner’s presence." — Brianna Wiest