“I've been hurt and fucked up too. Many years ago jopin' I could come up quick, along the broken road.”— RMR, open.spotify.com
“You have value as precisely as who you are right now. Figure out what that value is rather than faking another value.”— Jenn Romolini, girlsnightinclub.com
“I think we romanticize our careers and origin stories in the same way we romanticize love, and I think we have to stop having that kind of language around our lives and professional lives. It makes you think that if you don’t know it, you can’t do it. It’s important to actually stumble around a lot.”— Jenn Romolini, girlsnightinclub.com
“Be givers of hospitality and gracious takers of it too. Accept the serendipitous moments of life because, when all is said and done, you may find out that they were not serendipitous at all. And know that faith is as real as bread broken among friends. What you believe will take you far on your jour…”— Alton Brown, guideposts.org
“I hope wherever she takes you that you will learn to call the place home. And that you will let the sky fill you with rain when you are emptied like a bucket overflowing, spilling off the edges, quenching the thirst of our broken earth Until you no longer ache for anything but your steady legs and t…”— Marisa Donnelly, tcat.tc
“I feel free somewhere on a highway where time is endless and I choose where I will go and who I will become.”— Marisa Donnelly, tcat.tc
“A highway cleanses— my feet to the gravel or foot on the gas, destination lost in yellow lines, in faded street signs and the woman I used to be in the rearview.”— Marisa Donnelly, tcat.tc
“On nights when you feel like your mouth Is filled with scar tissue when your fists are heavier than your clay heart, remember the broken that does not need replacement remember the lungs that pound air in a body too tired to kiss the sun tell yourself you are still working on it say healing, say tak…”— Tammy Danan, thoughtcatalog.com
“Hold that white flag close to your heart And pluck the orange from the sun – it is setting Let it set on your palms Let your shaking bones beat like djembe drums Let your surrender fall to the ground So it can hold this tiny blue earth together. There is an ocean inside of you and Its waves come in…”— Tammy Danan, thoughtcatalog.com
“I see smoke each time I look in the mirror Perhaps this is God’s way of keeping me safe He knows I’m tired of seeing dead birds in rusting cages. Last night, I called the wind and asked How she taught the dove to fly ‘the sky is a map if you know how to look’ She said. And I looked at my skin, marke…”— Tammy Danan, thoughtcatalog.com
“It always amazes me how when we’re sure we’ve lost something for good, it winds up finding us.”— Nicole Williams, amazon.com
“When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“I’ve become so hyper-aware of all the possible signs the universe is handing me that I’m not even thinking about myself. Maybe it’s possible that, no matter what I choose, it will be right because I will make it right. But we can’t look for clues in the present as though they’ve been left here by th…”— Leah Singerman, thoughtcatalog.com