- You have a role to play: love people who need to be loved.
- You can find peace in the wild animals that rampage in your chest.
- Your hands and feet are roots, built for clinging to the earth and sticking around.
- A heart that feels too sensitive for this world is exactly what the world needs. Things softer than us have found ways to thrive, not just survive or exist.
- The worlds inside you are longing to be made reality.
- Everything that is pulled apart will be put back together; everything broken will be made whole.
- The beauty in the world often comes from scars. The canyons were formed by the earth being cut straight through, the mountains by enormous collisions.
- You are made of the same blood and bones and elements as everyone else—you belong on the earth as much as anyone.
- There are bands you will love that have not even formed yet, novels that will hit you straight in the heart that haven’t been written yet.
- There are dog breeds you haven’t petted yet, trees in your city you haven’t identified yet, coffee shops you haven’t visited yet.
- To fall in love, with a person, an idea, an art form, a city, a song, a hobby.
- Hard times will cycle through, but so will the cicadas on summer evenings, so will the trees painting the landscape in fall.
- Your worth isn’t determined by your Instagram feed, by the cruel things people say to you, by how ignored or forgotten you might feel. Your worth is inherent and infinite.
- Grace is more powerful than shame and guilt. You are not defined by your failures, your shortcomings, your flaws.
- Hope is just as real as hopelessness.
- Help is available—you are not stuck like this.
- There are people who love you, even if it doesn’t feel like it.
- Fresh starts and second chances are endless. You have time to dream new dreams and pursue them.
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