Exhale

by K. Yvette

“Confidence is one’s trust in self… so you gave away the trust that you had for yourself. It was a personal thing. You met a guy that nine times out of ten he didn’t earn your trust to begin with. Yet, you gave him the trust that you had in yourself?” She left the entire room with something to think about.

“Will it be as magical as you probably want it to be? No, it won’t. Love for you came when you least expected it. But it’s like a garden, do you hear me?” Naomi was tuned in for sure. “You gotta tend to it. Water it daily. Nurture it. Pluck the weeds. Spend time with the soil. And with patience, you’ll get a rose.”

Rudyard Kipling once said, “Excuses are tools of incompetence, and those that excel in them, excel in nothing.”

He turned the news on and saw that the famous preacher man that Naomi was fuckin’ had been involved in a car accident that left four people dead. He shook his head and turned the screen off. All around him shit was happening. And folks had the nerve to wonder why he was always high.

OMG i cant take it

Any man that could walk away with ease was never planted to begin with.

tell that little one over there on a daily basis that you must always choose yourself. Why? Because YOU can’t leave YOU.

“The F needs to stand for FAITH. Have faith that God will send you a man that’s good to you and good for you. Bedroom included.”

HELLO

“Once you realize who you are and whose you are, it becomes really hard to play second base. It

She didn’t even weigh the pros and cons. Love won. Respect won. Period.

Every time

I used to think I deserved a lot because I never asked for much. Then I learned when you don’t expect a lot, that’s exactly what you get and how you get treated. Set standards, stand on them, and never settle.”

“She told me that I was going to keep taking the same test and attracting the same type of person with different faces until I loved myself.

learn yourself and love you more than you love anybody else.”

“You don’t meet good people every day so if you have quality friends, hold onto them. Love em’. Pray for them. Keep your friends uplifted. Check on them. Give them room to be themselves and express how they feel. Don’t be so quick to cut them off. Real friends go through life together,”