Work on closing the gap between who the world thinks you are and who you know you are. Your mental health will change significantly. - Brianna Wiest

A misstep isn’t the worst thing that can happen. Refusing to move forward is.

Take away all of the words a person has ever spoken to you, and observe what they do. That is how they feel, and that is who they are. Your choice is how much of them you want in your life.

You can control how you treat people, but you cannot actually control what they think. The idea that behaving a certain way will elicit a certain response is a delusion that will keep you puppeteering through your life. It will distance you from the person you want to be and the life you want to live.