“You just have to say to yourself “I’m not willing to accept anything less for myself than what I deserve. I am smart. I am beautiful. I am a good woman, and I deserve to be happy.”

“I love those random memories that make me smile no matter what is going on in my life right now.”

“Being happy is a very personal thing and it really has nothing to do with anyone else.”

“Have the courage to live the way you want to.”

“We could do ourselves a tremendous favor by letting go of the people who poison our spirit.”

“The most beautiful people wear their heart on their sleeve, and their soul in their smile.”

“Serious tweet: we all must learn to be happy with being alone; that is when things begin to change.”

“The future you have, tomorrow, won’t be the same future you had, yesterday.”

“Be a child again. Flirt. Giggle. Dip your cookies in your milk. Take a nap. Say you are sorry if you hurt someone. Chase a butterfly. Be a child again.”

“Another morning comes. It always does. Time always moves at the same rate, only feelings have different speeds. Every day can mark a whole lifetime or a single heartbeat, depending on who you spend it with.”

“Sometimes what you’re most afraid of doing is the very thing that will set you free.”

“It happens to everyone as they grow up. You find out who you are and what you want, and then you realize that people you’ve known forever don’t see things the way you do. So you keep the wonderful memories, but find yourself moving on.”

Virginia Woolf, from a diary entry featured in "a passionate apprentice"