You cannot convince people to love you. This is an absolute rule. No one will ever give you love because you want him or her to give it. Real love mo… - Cheryl Strayed

You cannot convince people to love you.

Boundaries teach people how to treat you and they teach you how to respect yourself. Every last one of us can do better than give up.

because we are all, in the private kingdom of our hearts, desperate for the company of a wise, true friend. Someone who isn’t embarrassed by our emotions, or her own, who recognizes that life is short and that all we have to offer, in the end, is love.

It seemed to me the way it must feel to people who cut themselves on purpose. Not pretty, but clean. Not good, but void of regret. I was trying to heal. Trying to get the bad out of my system so I could be good again. To cure me of myself.