A common theme online today is the pressure to conform — the idea that we must all share the same beliefs, with differing opinions always met with others' views pushed as gospel. My ideal love does not have to be yours. Each of us is entitled to our own dreams of romance. I am free to seek out my own desires, and you are free to find the kind of relationship dynamic you deem perfect in your eyes. 

Discipline is nothing but the highest level of self-respect. You don’t deserve the results if you won’t work for them. However, I think that’s where some get discouraged—not because the dream is unattainable, but because discipline has been miscast as deprivation. To float through life is easy, but if you don’t sacrifice for what you want, what you want will become the sacrifice.