✨Poppy✨

“I walk home in a sort of trance. It’s not until passing pedestrians give me double takes and odd looks that I realize I’m crying. I don’t try to stop. I let the tears fall. I cry for the girl I used to be. I cry for me. It’s a foreign experience. Self-pity is not an indulgence that I allow myself. This doesn’t feel like pity, though. It feels like self-compassion, and the realization makes me cry harder. No one should need a diagnosis in order to be compassionate to themself.”
― Helen Hoang, The Heart Principle

“People like me better when I make them feel good about themselves.”
― Helen Hoang, The Heart Principle

“For that’s the only place where true perfection exists—the blank page. Nothing I actually do can compete with the boundless potential of what I could do. But if I allow the fear of imperfection to trap me in perpetual beginnings, I’ll never create anything again.”
― Helen Hoang, The Heart Principle

“No one should need a diagnosis in order to be compassionate to themself.”
― Helen Hoang, The Heart Principle