Alisha Matthews ². ⁰❥ ʜᴏᴘᴇ ᴅᴇᴀʟᴇʀ ⨟⚔⨟

“A child should never feel as if they need to earn a mother’s love. This will leave a void in their heart all of their life. A mother’s love needs to be given unconditionally to establish trust and a firm foundation of emotional intimacy in a child’s life. If love is withheld, a child will look for it in a million other ways, sometimes throughout their lifetime unless they come to some sort of peace with their past. The emotional foundation we give our children at home is foundational to their life. We cannot underestimate the value of home and the power of a mother’s love.12”
― Sherrie Campbell, But It's Your Family . . .: Cutting Ties with Toxic Family Members and Loving Yourself in the Aftermath

“I am a little pencil in God's hands. He does the thinking. He does the writing. He does everything and sometimes it is really hard because it is a broken pencil and He has to sharpen it a little more.”
― Mother Teresa, The Joy in Loving: A Guide to Daily Living

“I don't think of it as suicide. I like to think of it as leaving. She didn't want to stay, so she left.”
― Anna Akana, Surviving Suicide

“You'll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.”
― Lou Holtz