9 Quotes by Melinda Longtin

A writer's job isn't to change the directions of others' trains, but rather to re-imagine the tracks and paint empathy on the rails

Loving someone does not make you more beautiful to them. It makes them more beautiful to you, because you are invested in them.

Calendars tell us when to go to work, not when to live our lives. Each rise of the sun is a new day and a clean slate. Why are we waiting for permission to live?

Confidence is not assuming people will like you. Confidence is believing in yourself and not caring whether or not you are liked.

Trauma may happen to you, but it can never define you.

The best revenge is creating your own happiness despite a person's wish to take you down.

Believing that everything happens for a reason does not invalidate tragedy, nor does it justify rough times. If life were a broken vase, the pieces would not be disqualified from being parts of a whole for being incomplete. Trust the journey, and you will eventually find peace in the pieces.Find peace in the pieces.

Life is a tug-of-war championship between patience and persistence

Life is a tug-of-war championship between patience and persistence.