All The Reminders You Need To Get You Through Anything In Life

by Thought Catalog

You are your own greatest asset, and it’s probably time you started giving yourself more credit.

Any time you feel like you’re making the wrong choice, remember that life is not built exclusively on perfect decisions and that your recoveries are just as important as your mistakes.

don’t always have to be right, and people will respect you when you own up to your mistakes.

When people try to make you feel like less than you are, it’s because they’re insecure.

When your job gets really tough, that’s when you will see how much you care about your work, or how much you need to find a different job.

is okay to binge-watch bad TV sometimes, but it’s not okay to drown yourself in the Internet and not let ...

You probably shouldn’t get a dog if you ca...

Tell the people you love how much you appreciate them more than you think is necessary.

Do not let anyone make you feel like you’re unlovable; you may be difficult to love, you may have baggage, but you are not unloveable.

There is no specific age at which you need

to have a boyfriend, need to have an established career, need to have children,...

It’s natural to feel like you have to run away—from people, from feelings, from places, from life—but sometimes you should challenge yourself to stay put.

Stop apologizing so much.

You should never let your peers successes make you feel like you’re behind.

If you have the opportunity to give someone who is kind, funny, well-intentioned but “not your type” a chance, take that chance.

Finding purpose in your everyday life is essential, but stressing out about whether every little thing is meaningful isn’t.

Feeling lost is just a gentle reminder that you are trying to improve yourself every day.

Finding someone who will love you won’t make you love yourself more. If your source of happiness comes from someone you may lose, you’re corrupting the goodness of your mind and soul.

There’s a difference between being alone and being lonely. Remember that having absolutely no one is not the same as wanting to be by yourself for a change.

Don’t keep doing something you hate just because it’s easy. If it’s not beneficial to the overall outcome of your life goals, then leave it.

Pick up a book every once in a while. You’ll be surprised how much better other worlds are compared to the one you’ve been forced to live in. Escape to a place so far away that it doesn’t even feel like you’ve left—because you haven’t.

Crying feels good sometimes. Even if it is for days at a time, let it all out.

Don’t tear yourself apart to keep someone whole. You do you, man. 18. Take advice from others. But don’t depend on people too much to the point where you don’t know which direction you should be heading. It’s comforting at times to be told what to do, but if you get to...

Being selfish doesn’t make you a monster. Take time for yourself. You need to focus on you.

No matter how strongly you feel about each other, you can’t expect to be fulfilled by your relationship alone. You will both have to work hard on yourselves, too. The more satisfied you are as individuals, the better equipped you’ll be to support on another.

Don’t count on love alone to sustain your happiness as a couple. You need more than that—common interests, maybe, shared values, or common goals. Anything that unites you.

It’s okay to have bad days as a couple. You won’t feel head-over-heels in love every second. Sometimes, you will legitimately hate each other. But you’re not any less in love with someone just because you can’t stand them for a bit.

Forgiveness is almost always the key to moving forward. Getting there requires stepping outside yourself to see your partner’s perspective—a difficult thing to do since each of us lives in the tiny, egocentric universe of our own mind—but it does get easier with practice.

Check in with each other regularly. Never stop asking your partner how they’re doing, or how their day’s going. The only thing more important than caring is showing that you care, especially in those tiny everyday ways too many people overlook as time passes.

If she seems like she’s over-analyzing what you say, it’s because in the past, those offhand comments were warning signs that she brushed off too easily.

If it seems like she’s overthinking your relationship, it’s because in the past, she learned not to always trust what she feels.

Be glad she wasn’t okay with how she was treated.

There will be some things that trigger her, or at least remind her of past experiences. Let those be moments in which you reassure her that this is different. If it doesn’t bring you closer, it will push you farther apart.

The moments in which we do the deepest reflection of ourselves and our lives do not occur when we are happy.

Going through a quarter-life crisis means that you’re growing. It means you are coming with terms to the fact that your whimsical, “fake adult” way of living is over, which, though it’s a hard pill to swallow, also means that you are aware that it’s time to grow up. Some people never come to that realization.

Don’t try to find yourself. It’s an impossible feat when you’re always changing. Just accept the uncomfortable doubts and embrace the fact that they are part of what’s making you who you are.

Always look at how far you’ve come instead of how far you still need to go. As long as you keep moving you will eventually get to where you want to be.

Crying is not a sign of weakness.

crying means you’re healing and it means you’re getting rid of all the anger inside of you so you can have a clearer and better vision.

Making mistakes is a part of life and it doesn’t mean you’re failing—it means you’re trying. Mistakes only...

You shouldn’t measure your self-worth and value based on those who couldn’t love you or those who onl...

Sometimes all you have to do is ask for help and you will be surprised by how many people want to be there for you.

Nothing will ever be safe and predictable in life, you just have to continue building resiliency and keeping the faith.

Transformation is not smooth. It is often preceded by chaos, misery and self-doubt.

Don’t let your pain cloud your gratitude.

Think about all the little insignificant things that affected you so deeply in the past and how they are just distant memories now.

is what you do in spite of these uncomfortable feelings that is the true representation of who you are.

You will never please everyone—never.

You are so much more than the worst mistake you’ve ever made.

Feeling lost can often be your mind’s way of refusing to accept a life of mediocrity—and that is a wonderful thing.