Read This If Quotes

“There’s no right way to be twenty-five. Because there’s no one, single, specific way to be human. As long as you keep your eyes open, as long as you keep trying new things and working hard and refusing to accept mediocrity as your fate, you will be okay. You will be happy. You will be exactly where you’re supposed to be.”
― Thought Catalog, Read This If: A Collection of Essays that Prove Someone Else Gets it, Too

“Forgiveness means giving up hope for a different past. It means knowing that the past is over, the dust has settled and the destruction left in its wake can never be reconstructed to resemble what it was. It’s accepting that there’s no magic solution to the damage that’s been caused. It’s the realization that as unfair as the hurricane was, you still have to live in its city of ruins. And no amount of anger is going to reconstruct that city. You have to do it yourself.”
― Thought Catalog, Read This If: A Collection of Essays that Prove Someone Else Gets it, Too

“The truth about anger is that it’s nothing more than the refusal to heal, because you’re scared to. Because you’re afraid of who you’ll be once your wounds close up and you have to go on living in your new, unfamiliar skin. You want your old skin back. And so anger tells you to keep that wound bleeding.”
― Thought Catalog, Read This If: A Collection of Essays that Prove Someone Else Gets it, Too

“Someday someone’s going to love all of those tiny things about you. Someone’s going to love the way you cough. They’re going to laugh at the way you lose your keys while you’re actually holding them. Someday, someone is going to stare at you from across a crowded room and know exactly how you’re feeling based on the way your head is tilting or the type of wine you’ve used to fill your glass. Someone is going to appreciate all of your obscurities eventually but right now they are all only your own. And that’s okay. First and foremost, you will always belong to yourself.”
― Thought Catalog, Read This If: A Collection of Essays that Prove Someone Else Gets it, Too

“Relationships with expiration dates teach us that love doesn’t have to last forever to be meaningful. That someone doesn’t have to stick around to make an impact. That the best things in life are not always measured by their longevity but by their intensity. Their complexity.”
― Thought Catalog, Read This If: A Collection of Essays that Prove Someone Else Gets it, Too

“So please, refuse to let the wounded people extinguish you. Refuse to be tamed. Refuse to flicker down into a meagre, burnt-out coal because somebody else is not tending to your flame.”
― Thought Catalog, Read This If: A Collection of Essays that Prove Someone Else Gets it, Too

“There are a thousand minute intricacies that make up the tapestry of who you are and not a single one has ceased to exist since the last time that somebody loved you. I”
― Thought Catalog, Read This If: A Collection of Essays that Prove Someone Else Gets it, Too

“There’s a particular way you laugh that can make an entire room light up, if only for a moment in time. There is a way you tilt your head when you are concentrating that makes you look unbearably kissable — as if you were placed on this earth only to stare at things and frown in the most endearing form humanely possible.”
― Thought Catalog, Read This If: A Collection of Essays that Prove Someone Else Gets it, Too

“Growing up is a lot like that, I think. Convincing the world you’ve got it all figured out. Even when we know it’s a lie. We’re all still trying.”
― Thought Catalog, Read This If: A Collection of Essays that Prove Someone Else Gets it, Too

“Just survive. Life is about surviving the best way you know how.”
― Thought Catalog, Read This If: A Collection of Essays that Prove Someone Else Gets it, Too

“It seems counterintuitive that a holiday that should be about the best things in life — music, food, family, friends, and goodwill — can in reality also become a time of year characterized by loneliness, disappointment, and anxiety.”
― Thought Catalog, Read This If: A Collection of Essays that Prove Someone Else Gets it, Too

“We want excitement but we never seem to want to leave the house. We want change but we can’t be bothered changing from pajamas. We want lives that are varied and full but we choose comfort at each opportunity. We blame our lives for staying stagnant. And we blame them from the comfort of our living room couch.”
― Thought Catalog, Read This If: A Collection of Essays that Prove Someone Else Gets it, Too

“We have to start appreciating all that we bring to our own lives. Because the ironic truth is, you are most attractive when you’re not worried about who you’re attracting. When you’re living your life confidently, freely and without restraint, you emit the kind of energy that it just isn’t possible to fake. The kind of energy that’s capable of transforming not just your own life, but the lives of people around you.”
― Thought Catalog, Read This If: A Collection of Essays that Prove Someone Else Gets it, Too

“You should aim to be kind. Aim to be compassionate. Aim to be understanding. Aim to allow and give love.”
― Thought Catalog, Read This If: A Collection of Essays that Prove Someone Else Gets it, Too

“At the end of the day, we’re all in charge of what we bring to our lives. So be the person who brings light to your own, even if nobody else shows up to it. Be the person who has a good day, even if nobody wishes it to them. Find a way to fuel your flame when no one else remembers to, because the world needs the light you give off.”
― Thought Catalog, Read This If: A Collection of Essays that Prove Someone Else Gets it, Too

“The way your eyes light up when you’re talking about what you love is — and endlessly will be — attractive, regardless of who is there to listen to you speak.”
― Thought Catalog, Read This If: A Collection of Essays that Prove Someone Else Gets it, Too

“There are a thousand minute intricacies that make up the tapestry of who you are and not a single one has ceased to exist since the last time that somebody loved you.”
― Thought Catalog, Read This If: A Collection of Essays that Prove Someone Else Gets it, Too

“So stop looking for The One to spend the rest of your life with. Be The One. And let everybody else come searching for you.”
― Thought Catalog, Read This If: A Collection of Essays that Prove Someone Else Gets it, Too

“So if you knew, with indisputable certainty, that love was never going to be yours, how would you live your life differently?”
― Thought Catalog, Read This If: A Collection of Essays that Prove Someone Else Gets it, Too

“If you feel behind in life, I urge you to ask yourself, “What am I using as a measurement?”
― Thought Catalog, Read This If: A Collection of Essays that Prove Someone Else Gets it, Too

“And here’s what it’s easiest to forget: Who you are doesn’t cease to exist because there’s nobody there to admire it.”
― Thought Catalog, Read This If: A Collection of Essays that Prove Someone Else Gets it, Too