I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.

“Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”

Amen to that. Happy <3

Season 5 Episode 19: Elevator Love Letter

If there's a crisis you don't freeze, you move forward. You get the rest of us to move forward. Because you've seen worse, you've survived worse, and you know we'll survive too. You say you're all dark and twisty, its not a flaw, its a strength. It makes you who you are.

Trauma always leaves a scar, it follows us home, it changes our life's. Trauma messes everybody up, but maybe that's the point. All the pain and the fear, the crap. Maybe going through all that is what keeps us going forward. It's what pushes us. Maybe we have to get a little messed up...before we can step up.

Season 5 Episode 17: I will follow you into the dark

Every person has a shadow. And the only way to get rid of the shadow is to turn off the lights. To stop running from the darkness and face what you fear. Head on.

The Ladder - Andrew Belle

The old, the present, whats next?

Somehow, somewhere, I lost myself.

Balance. I need balance. I love this life, and happiness can be overrated - but I want overrated. I want happy. I want to laugh & smile. And I don't want people to walk all over me anymore. I let it happen, its no one's fault but my own. I don't want gossip and drama to resonate in all these friendships. I don't want to feel as if the people I love the most take me forgranted almost every day. There needs to be balance - between the old me and the new me. I need to care about my own life and wants, as well as caring for others and always being there to help.

I'm sorry, it doesn't mean I'm leaving you, I'm not - I just need to make sure I don't lose myself in you.