“In the same old town, I saw your face. You seemed so sad, I felt the same. I knew you felt a way that I couldn't change.”— Antonio Williams, Kerry McCoy, open.spotify.com
“While Bitcoin mining may not be labor intensive, it diverts time, energy and capital from other, more productive activities that economists say could fuel faster growth.”— Binyamin Appelbaum, nytimes.com
“Trauma constantly confronts us with our fragility and with man’s inhumanity to man but also with our extraordinary resilience.”— Bessel Van Der Kolk, amazon.com
“Don't you wish you could just take it back? That thing you said? That thing you did? There's no undo button. There's only hoping we can learn. We can change, right? We can do better. We can't take back what we've done. We can't undo the past, cause the future keeps coming at us.”— William Harper, Dr. Meredith Grey, Ellen Pompeo, imdb.com
“It is enormously difficult to organize one’s traumatic experiences into a coherent account—a narrative with a beginning, a middle, and an end.”— Bessel Van Der Kolk, amazon.com
“My 2am self is honestly a completely different human than my 2pm self.”— Brandon Woelfel, twitter.com
“If I have learned anything it is that you cannot run away from who you are or from how you’ve been shaped by your experiences. Instead, you must integrate your past and present.”— Monica Lewinsky, vanityfair.com
“Apart from knowing someone well for many years, there is no foolproof decision, rule or litmus test for trustworthiness, and it is extremely important to acknowledge this fact, unnerving though it may be.”— Martha Stout, amazon.com
“The right partner makes your life take off, not settle down. The right partner doesn’t change you – you change yourself when you feel free enough to be loved for who you really are.”— Brianna Wiest, thoughtcatalog.com
“I liken narcissistic abuse to a parasitic worm that manages to penetrate under the victim's skin, where it is out of the sight of witnessing eyes, but is free to injure or consume its host slowly, leaving trauma or disease in its wake.”— Christine Louis de Canonville, thoughtcatalog.com
“If you want to minimize the chances of romantic disasters, one of your best hedges is unapologetic honesty about who you are and where you’re going in life.”— Shawn Smith, amazon.com
“The thing about women who overthink, overcompensate, overexert their efforts is that they all eventually have an awakening. They all eventually realize what they deserve. When they finally walk, they walk away for good. They know they did all they could to save the man who never existed in the first…”— Shahida Arabi, thoughtcatalog.com
“Every boy I had to baby and take care of emotionally in 2017 is getting claimed as a dependent on my taxes.”— chik’n fried, twitter.com
“Be alone. Eat alone, take yourself on dates, sleep alone. In the midst of this you will learn about yourself. You will grow, you will figure out what inspires you, you will curate your own dreams, your own beliefs, your own stunning clarity, and when you do meet the person who makes your cells dance…”— Bianca Sparacino, thoughtcatalog.com
“The whole concept of an individual who exists apart from group identity is slipping from the discourse.”— Andrew Sullivan, nymag.com
“I have failed many times many times in my life. But more importantly, I’ve learned from every setback, proudly own up to my mistakes, grown from disappointments, and now I’m a glamazon bitch ready for the runway.”— Adam Rippon, twitter.com