Joya Cousin

“Unhealthy love is based on two people trying to escape their problems through their emotions for each other—in other words, they’re using each other as an escape. Healthy love is based on two people acknowledging and addressing their own problems with each other’s support.”
― Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

“Isn't that what truth is? The force of a person's believing seeps into those around him- into the very earth and air and water- until there's nothing else.”
― Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, The Palace of Illusions

“Do. The. Work. Every day, you have to do something you don’t want to do. Every day. Challenge yourself to be uncomfortable, push past the apathy and laziness and fear. Otherwise, the next day you’re going to have two things you don’t want to do, then three and four and five, and pretty soon, you can’t even get back to the first thing. And then all you can do is beat yourself up for the mess you’ve created, and now you’ve got a mental barrier to go along with the physical barriers.”
― Tim S. Grover, Relentless: From Good to Great to Unstoppable

“A woman who acts as if she knows what she's doing gets what she wants.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Marriage of Opposites