It's not wrong to be upset. It's not wrong to cry. It's not wrong to want attention. It's not even wrong to scream or throw a fit. What is wrong is to keep it all inside. What is wrong is to blame and punish yourself for simply being human. What is wrong is to never be heard and to be alone in your pain. Share it. Let it out.
You cannot save everyone. Some people are going to destroy themselves no matter how much you try to help them.
You cannot save people from themselves. All you can do is stand firmly in your hopes for them, with compassion.
When the storm rips you to pieces, you get to decide how to put yourself back together again.
We only hurt others because we don't love ourselves. Learning to truly love yourself changes your relationship with everyone.
It will feel impossible; like you are dying inside this is your soul crying out for life. It may take everything you have; every ounce of will and strength. You will lose a part of yourself trying to save something essential and innocent. And when you have given everything, you will recover and you will be set free, and you will discover there was even more in you than you ever knew.
Mean people are really just sad people. They hurt others because they are hurting. Every person is born beautiful, and much of the ugliness in others was put inside of them by other hurting people.
Acceptance is the road to all change.
