Walk With Wings

by Tene Edwards

I often leave myself empty to keep others full. My loyalty need not be questioned.

You cannot help whom you fall for, but be careful who you choose to love.

They say, “follow your heart,” but sometimes the heart can be unreliable when it tangles in the blindness of love.

Being a good woman in a world full of fuckboys is the realest struggle I have ever known.

Heartbreak is a brutal teacher.

She has a kind soul, but a cold heart.

She’s just a strong woman with a weak heart. Sweet, though broken.

Opening to love has always been a gamble,

Tired of rejection? So am I. Maybe one day our time will come. But as for now, we must keep giving the best we can. We must stay loyal to the faith in ourselves. Rejection will not discourage us, because the hunger to achieve outcraves the fear of failure.

Rejection allowed me to appreciate the beauty of acceptance.

Not everyone will like you. Not everyone will support you. Nobody should be pressured into doing so, and nobody owes you a duty to do so. Learn how to rely on yourself for acceptance. Learn how to believe in yourself for success. Rather than focusing on those who don’t support you, why don’t you invest your time appreciating the ones who do?

If you don’t take your grind seriously, don’t expect anyone to take your brand seriously.

Life has taught me that standing up for my worth is the most fruitful way to get me what I want.

If you approach the mountain in fear, it will look bigger than it actually is.

You can train as hard as you like, but you will never know your strengths until you face the ring.

Today, the disturbing condition of chronic self-doubt may be at an all-time high, but I ought to remember that even the greatest leaders stumble upon it.

She may run into a setback, but will break through with a comeback,

So, thank you for stabbing my heart, I needed the pain to birth my art.

Hope it ‘til you hear it. Force it ‘til you feel it. Crave it ‘til you taste it. And dream it ‘til you own it. That is how I survived.

You might miss out on a chance at love by being in your feelings for the wrong one.

There will come a time when you will love someone, who won’t love you back. There will also come a time when someone will love you, who you won’t love back. But there will come a time when you will love someone, who will love you back.

I am not going to be that girl anymore, who remains quiet for peace.

I scorn broken promises, yet struggle to fulfill some I make to myself.

Her persona may be quiet, but her observation loud.

You can place the remote to your happiness in someone else’s hand, or you can take control and change the channel.

And for as long as I have breath, my story remains under construction.

You strengthen your confidence through trial and error. Your mistakes will shape you into a stronger version of yourself.

There will come a time in your life when you will take the wrong turn, miss your stop, or be forced to take another route. You will have no idea where this new path may lead to. And that is the beauty of life. The aftermath of an error is unpredictable, your future life is undeterminable, you cannot prepare for the unforeseeable, but trusting the universe is feasible. Your comfort zone will only obstruct you; brave the challenge of change.

Don’t be afraid to rebrand yourself.

“Uncle, what do you find so savory about oyster and mussel?” “I don’t eat them for their taste, I eat them for their value,” I applied this wisdom to my daily actions, and it improved my life for the better.