There’s something very addictive about people pleasing. It’s a thought pattern and a habit that feels really, really good until it becomes desperate. It’s one of the reasons [my] relationship ended. I wasn’t able to grow or foster anything. I think a lot of girls have that story. It’s a big moment when you step away from that and say, ‘I’m going to be exactly who I am. And I’m going to be brave enough to only be with someone who wants me the way I am.’
—Anne Hathaway, Harper’s Bazaar August 2011 (via dailylove-notes)
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And that’s when Lucille realised that she just might like being alone after all…
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Don’t just get involved: fight for your seat at the table. Better yet, fight for your seat at the head of the table.
—President Barack Obama to the women of the 2012 graduating class at Barnard College, May 14, 2012 (via ancora-imparo)
When my mom tried to hang out with my friends & I
In high school we’d be like,
Now, we’re like,
People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don’t have it, you can’t give it.
—~Andrew Matthews (via thesearepeopleyouknow)
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