“You can’t go into the world with a stencil of what you want and then think less of people because they’re just doing their own thing.”Tagged: Quote of the Moment, accepting people as they are, Loving People, Love, Expectations
“Before I knew the phrase ‘irl’ I knew that irl was never going to be the place I felt most at home, which is a lonely thing to know from a young age, maybe.”Tagged: Loneliness, Lonely, IRL, Existence, Quote of the Moment
“No, I don’t think being overweight is healthy. Yes, I believe it is something to work on. But how many dispositions of malice, how many fundamentally terrible personality traits do we not treat in this same way? Many fat people become fat because they hate themselves and are paralyzed in this space.…”Tagged: Why Aren't We Perfect?, Cast the First Stone, The Plank In Your Own Eye, Quote of the Moment
“I am compassionate with myself when I’m not perfect. Recovery is not linear.”Tagged: Self-Compassion, Recovery, Quote of the Moment
“There's so much money to be made as a self-help writer I think, because we all want to believe that there is just one piece that we are missing, some learning we can apply to our lives and it will make everything make sense.”Tagged: Why Self-Help Writing Makes So Much Money, Writing, Economics of Writing, Self-Help Publishing, Quote of the Moment