The breakdown is often just the tipping point that precedes the breakthrough, the moment a star implodes before it becomes a supernova. - Brianna Wiest

The real glow up isn’t proving the people from your past wrong. It is finally feeling so content and hopeful about your future that you stop thinking about them entirely.

the people you spend the most time with will shape your future irrevocably, and so you must choose them wisely.

To fully accept your life — the highs, lows, good, bad — is to be grateful for all of it, and to know that the “good” teaches you well, but the “bad” teaches you better.