You can’t control how other people perceive you. Anything you do or say gets filtered through the lens of whatever they are going through at the moment. Just keep doing your thing with as much integrity and love as possible. Never wait for someone else’s permission to be amazing.
In 1980, a psychiatric nurse at Chicago's Michael Reese Hospital (and mother of two) divorced her husband in the midst of a particularly troubled married life and decided to pursue her lifelong dream of an acting career. She was 40.
Your entire life can really change in a year. You just gotta believe in yourself, and love yourself enough to know you deserve more, be brave enough to demand more, and be disciplined enough to actually work for more. As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
Saw this month's Vogue and was so inspired I had to paint it... and then... paint some more.... okay I got really carried away but QUEEN BEY 🎨 MY FINEST WORK
The opposite of anger is not calmness, it’s empathy. Empathy is seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the eyes of another, and feeling with the heart of another. It’s hard to stay angry at someone once you understand them. Empathy is the highest form of intelligence.
abusive parents love making constant jabs at their children about how they can't be independent or survive without them when the reality is that those parents do everything in their willpower to make their children rely and depend on them so they can always control them