If a girl starts out all casual with a guy and she doesn't tell him that she wants a relationship, it will never become a relationship. If you give the guy the impression that casual is okay with you, that's all he'll ever want. Be straight with him from the start. If he gets scared and runs away, he wasn't right for you.Collection: Love
The stupid thing about anger is how people hurt you and then you let them keep hurting you by being angry about how they originally hurt you. It’s a vicious cycle.Collection: Hurt
I'd rather be weird and happy than normal and miserable.Collection: Normal
One of the most amazing things that can happen is finding someone who sees everything you are and won't let you be anything less. They see the potential of you. They see endless possibilities. And through their eyes, you start to see yourself the same way. As someone who matters. As someone who can make a difference in this world. If you're lucky enough to find this person, never let them go.Collection: Eye
No one can be everything you want them to be.Collection: Want
You can never completely know anyone, no matter how well you think you do. There will always be some truth about them you don’t ever get to know.Collection: Thinking
The unknown is scary the Unknown can also be exciting. Your life could change in an instant anytime. But sometimes, that change is the best thing that will ever happen to you.Maybe I don’t have to know what my fate is to know that everything will be okay. Maybe the not knowing is how we move forward. Wherever I’m headed, I know it’s exactly where I’m supposed to be.Collection: Moving
It’s unbelievable how you can affect someone else so deeply and never know.Collection: Unbelievable
I'm thinking that it might actually be possible for things to work out sometimes. Definitely not everything and maybe not the way you imagined. But sometimes, when you least expected it, life surprises you.Collection: Thinking
It’s like once everyone decides who you are, you’re locked into their version of you and that’s it.Collection: Locked
And I just think that if you believe in something and you want it so much and you're not hurting anyone else, you have to go for it. Which sometimes means taking a risk, even if it's scary. But the thing you want most to happen doesn't stand a chance unless you give it one.Collection: Hurt
Even in a bad situation, there's always a positive side. Even if you can't see it yet.Collection: Stay Positive
I just want to write. It's like once I get those obsessive thoughts out of my head, once they're written down, they're somehow set free and I can move on.Collection: Moving
Because if you take a risk, you just might find what you're looking for.Collection: Risk
My thing is that I'm in love with love. Actually, I'm in love with the possibility of true love. Which could be considered a major problem.Collection: Love Actually
Never give up on your dreams. No matter how many people say it’s impossible, no matter how difficult your journey is, you can create your ideal life. Your heart’s desires can become reality. Make things better now by taking steps every day to get closer to the life you want. And never, ever give up.Collection: Dream
The past doesn't just disappear after it's happened.Collection: Past
Physical attraction that strong is addictive. And knowing that kind of magic isn’t just a fantasy makes me want to find it again. But what about being with someone who makes me a better person? What about sharing my life with someone who adores me as much as I adore him, whom I can always count on, who helps me find my way when I’m lost?Collection: Strong
We're all sinking in the same boat here. We're all bored and desperate and waiting for something to happen. Waiting for life to get better. Waiting for things to change. Waiting for that one person to finally notice us. We're all waiting. But we also need to realize that we all have the power to make those changes for ourselves.Collection: Change
That's the cool thing about having a best friend. They know what your pain feels like already, so you don't have to explain it.Collection: Best Friend
Things fall apart, even when you think they're stronger than anything you could ever imagine.Collection: Fall
Sometimes in the midst of all your boy drama, you just need a cupcake.Collection: Drama
I can't take it anymore. The waiting. The wanting. Something inside me snaps. I hate myself. I hate that I have to deal with this. I hate my life. And I hate how I can't count on anyone to be completely there when I need them, exactly the way I need them to be.Collection: Hate
You can’t violate someone’s trust and expect there to be no consequences.Collection: Consequence
Following your heart means allowing the possibility of finding true love to be stronger than the fear of rejection.Collection: Heart
How could something that felt so right actually be so wrong?Collection: Felt
But life’s never easy when you need it to be.Collection: Needs
Your life can end in a flash before you even have time to know it’s over. There is no safe. There is no control.Collection: Safe
How can someone who means so much to a person mean nothing the next day?Collection: Mean
My hair is so scary that if you saw it walking down the street, you'd cross to the other side. This humidity is not helping. It's just an excuse for my hair to let its frizz flag fly.Collection: Hair
I deserve to be happy. I'm sad it took me so long to get that. But I get it now.Collection: Long
Standing in the line at the food court, I try to be myself. But I forget how I usually stand when I'm myself.Collection: Trying
It is easier with the right person. A good test of a relationship is how well you both deal with challenges. If one person is more invested, it shows. If you're with the wrong person, it feels like too much work. But if you're unhappy more than you're happy, it's not the right relationship for you.Collection: Challenges
There should be some kind of radar that lets you know when your soul mate is nearby.Collection: Soul
Anyway, shes still getting to know you," Mike says. "Chicks are like that. They base how much tey like on you an emotional level. They have to be into your personality first, and then they decide they want you. But if a guy thinks a girl is hot, he'll learn to like her personality later. It's two different worlds, man.Collection: Girl
All I know is, if we don't eat soon I'm going to chew off a limb. And I can't guarentee it'll be mine.Collection: Limbs
Thats all I need. To find a soul mate to share my life with. To have a love so epic it will never die.Collection: Epic
Everyone at his table laughs. They know I can hear them. They just don't care.Collection: Bullying
Life would be so much easier if fictional boys were real.Collection: Real
And yeah, it got better. My stomach eventually went back to normal. I didn’t cry every day. But my heart. My heart will always be broken.Collection: Heart
Still hiding and afraid to let go. Waiting for you to find me uncover me and show me the way.Collection: Letting Go
Do you want to be with Dave for the rest of your life?” Then he rips off a piece of paper and picks up the smallest charcoal stick from my set. He writes something. He passes it over to me. It says: Time will tell. “And while you’re waiting,” he says, “don’t settle for anything less than what you really want.Collection: Rip
Tell me about it. It’s so hard to deal with a single parent. They take out all their anxiety on you. It’s like, she’s so angry all the time. And I didn’t even do anything!” “That’s so wrong.” “Yeah.” “Where’s your dad?” “I don’t know. My mom had me when she was still in high school, so . . .” “You don’t see him at all?” “No, and I don’t want to. I have no interest in maintaining a relationship with someone who didn’t love me enough to stick around.Collection: Mom
It’s interesting how you can know someone for a long time, and then one day you just see them in this whole different way.Collection: Long
I want revenge, but I don't want to screw up my karma.Collection: Karma
It’s interesting how something that comes so easily to one person can be so impossible for someone else.Collection: Interesting
You can’t ever know the real anybody unless you’re friends with them. And sometimes not even then.Collection: Real
That's the tricky thing about being bonded to someone for life. Blake and his dad are bonded like I'm bonded with Erin. We're irrevocably tied together by history, a history that can never be erased. Even if you want to deny it, even it you want to pretend it never existed, it will always be a part of you. It will always, in some way, define who you are.Collection: Dad
If you see someone being bullied, make it stop. Why is that so hard for us to do?Collection: Bullying
I have to get my life back on track. Order as an antidote to chaos. Calm after the storm.Collection: Order