Taylor Revell

"My biggest success in life is loving and accepting exactly who I am and not having any regrets. Even after making so many mistakes I can't even count on all my fingers and toes, being able to look back and say 'none of that matters'. It makes me exactly who I am today. It makes me an artist. It makes me a writer. It makes me creative. It makes me loving. It makes me a helper. All of these different things I love about myself. I don't have to shy away from exactly who I am."

"I once dated this guy who told me that I wasn't smart and I had always prided myself on making good grades and doing well in school. So I always knew that I was an intelligent person, but one day this guy that I was dating said that wasn't me. That he was the smart one and I was just the artistic free spirit and that I wasn’t smart. I stopped reading and I stopped wanting to know stuff. I stopped learning. I stopped caring about school because someone told me that that wasn’t me. I didn’t feel like myself anymore after that moment because I didn’t feel safe to be intelligent in that relationship. I stopped doing the things that I love. I stopped reading and reading is a big passion of mine. It really, really messed up my mental health because that’s a part of me. It’s who I am and so when I stopped doing those things it took that part away from me."

"I did a lot of guided journals. One of them was called Spirit Listography and it made you make extensive lists of things that you like. Foods that you like, tv shows that you like, music that makes you feel like you and eventually it all starts coming together. It just starts to look like you. All the music that you like, all the tv shows that you like and writing your name on a paper isn’t just a name. It becomes exactly who you are. Journaling and embracing the things that you already like. You don’t have to like new things. You don’t have to go out and find yourself in Africa or Italy or whatever. You can do it in the comfort of your own home. I’ll never let that happen ever again. I value my intelligence more so now than I ever have because I am intelligent and I can’t let anybody tell me that I’m not."

"I just finished telling my dad yesterday that he’s people smart. He is not a book person, he doesn’t know factual information, he barely finished high school and he didn’t go to college or anything. If anyone dares tell him that he’s not intelligent, I told him to tell them that he is so socially intelligent. I am going to school to be a teacher so I think that it’s so cool that now in elementary schools teachers are being taught about the different types of intelligences. Instead of just math, science and reading, now we have art, music, nature, language and all of these different types of intelligences that we can encourage other people to realize their own potential intellectually."