“Whenever you see me somewhere succeeding in one area of my life, that almost certainly means that I am failing in another area of my life.”— Shonda Rhimes, amazon.com
“The story of getting better can be just as compelling as the story of falling apart.”— Leslie Jamison, vulture.com
“You cannot shame or belittle people into changing. This means we can't use self-hate to lose weight, we can't shame ourselves into becoming better parents and we can't belittle ourselves or our families into becoming who we need them to be. Putting people on the 'loser board' doesn't work. Shame cor…”— Brené Brown, amazon.com
“Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others.”— Brené Brown, amazon.com
“I now see how the work of cultivating and letting go that shows up in the 10 guideposts is not "to-do list" material. It's not something we accomplish or acquire and then check off our list. It's life work. It's soul work.”— Brené Brown, amazon.com
“His question is not: How many games do you want to win? It’s how good do you want to be?”— Ryan Holiday, thoughtcatalog.com
“Everybody says, ‘He just won 31-3. What’s he complaining about?’ But it goes back to the inner scoreboard versus the outer scoreboard. Which one is more important? If you’re going to accomplish your goals, it’s always the inner scoreboard.”— Nick Saban, espn.com
“I knew what I looked like. I had mirrors in my home. I'd just seen myself in pictures. I wasn't in the dark about it. I just assumed at that time that if I could display a talent worthy of praise, if I could prove that I was worthy of attention, that I wasn't just who you thought I was... I guess I…”— Gabourey Sidibe, amazon.com
“A pain in the leg means “don’t put pressure on this leg”; a pain in the mind means “change the way you live”.”— Russell Brand, amazon.com
“You don't have to not drink for twenty years today. You don't have to give up white bread for all eternity, right now. This "one day at a time" cliche when taken plainly is no less profound than any "be in the moment" Eastern wisdom I've since encountered.”— Russell Brand, amazon.com
“Why didn’t I learn to treat everything like it was the last time? My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.”— Jonathan Safran Foer, amazon.com
“I was never so alive as when I was winning this throne, or so dead as now that I've won it.”— George R. R. Martin, Robert Baratheon, amazon.com
“HGTV makes big, expensive, time-consuming remodels look like two weeks’ work and a modest amount of money well spent. Moreover, it links these changes so definitively to personal and family happiness that you begin to wonder what, exactly, is wrong with you that you haven’t made some of them. The di…”— Caitlin Flanagan, vulture.com
“The first thing counselors tell sex addicts is to stop watching porn, and we really shouldn’t be watching this much HGTV during our rehab. Although it’s a soothing experience, it is also a fomenter of deep feelings of discontent about one’s living arrangements, which began to hit me hard around week…”— Caitlin Flanagan, vulture.com
“What you need to know is that my life is split in two, cleaved not so neatly. There is the before and the after. Before I gained weight. After I gained weight. Before I was raped. After I was raped.”— Roxane Gay, amazon.com
“Waking up is not a one-time event. Waking up is a practice. Waking up is a commitment that continues for a lifetime.”— Chani Nicholas, chaninicholas.com
“Spend a little time in the wellness world, and it seems like everyone has an official diagnosis.”— Amy Larocca, thecut.com