“The answer to ‘I have no idea how I am going to get through this’ is: you allow yourself to sob, to heave, to feel as if your heart has a boulder crashing through it.””— Geneen Roth, amazon.com
“The great thing about being Sisyphus is that you have your work cut out for you.”— Geneen Roth, amazon.com
“i am open to seeing what limiting beliefs i have so i can reframe them”— Mallory Whitten, amazon.com
“Let the people who want infinite choices take them and savor the hell out of them. Let them sample the fruits of seduction to infinity and beyond. I want one flavor forever, and I can’t get enough of it. It is not boring, bitches. It is not boring. Hold out for exactly what you want. Believe in it.…”— Heather Havrilesky, thecut.com
“I have to tell you that the dream is real, motherfucker. The dream is real and it’s worth it. Life is not long and boring, it’s short and exciting, and sex with someone who you love like crazy does not get worse and worse, it gets better and better. Knowing that someone is on your side — really, tru…”— Heather Havrilesky, thecut.com
“The question of your worthiness is not on the table at all. You know what you want. Embrace that and stand up for it without huffing the spray paint that everyone else is huffing.”— Heather Havrilesky, thecut.com
“Claiming that you’re ‘not enough’ for someone who wants an open relationship is like saying that a socket wrench is not enough for a freshwater trout. The two things are completely unrelated to each other. That’s why arguing ‘I should be enough for you!’ does nothing. What you should say is: I will…”— Heather Havrilesky, thecut.com
“You don't have to save the world. You just have to be here and you're doing a wonderful job.”— Mallory Whitten, amazon.com
“Calling my time in New York a failure because it ended would make about as much sense as calling a long plane ride a failure because the plane eventually landed.”— Heidi Priebe, thoughtcatalog.com
“We are all of us like that boy sometimes. I mean we all carry something inside us that can be rejected; that can look silver in the light. You can deny it, or try and throw it in the garbage by all means. You can despise it so much you drink yourself halfway to death. At the end of the day, though,…”— Olivia Laing, amazon.com
“One of the most fascinating lessons I've absorbed about life is that the struggle is good. You can't know tomorrow, because if you did you would never go about trying to create it the same way. The uncertainty and doubt that fuck with our minds are the same forces that make accomplishments and achie…”— Joe Rogan, reddit.com
“Is an eagle and a salmon level? Does the salmon ever get to eat the eagle? No. The universe does not want even! It wants conflict and resolution and constant improvement. Okay?”— Joe Rogan, imdb.com
“Let everything happen to you, Beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.”— Rainer Maria Rilke, amazon.com
“I first ran for Congress in 1999, and I got beat. I just got whooped. I had been in the state legislature for a long time, I was in the minority party, I wasn’t getting a lot done, and I was away from my family and putting a lot of strain on Michelle. Then for me to run and lose that bad, I was thin…”— Barack Obama, humansofnewyork.com
“We know from myths and fairy tales that there are many different kinds of powers in this world. One child is given a light saber, another a wizard’s education. The trick is not to amass all the different kinds of power, but to use well the kind you’ve been granted.”— Susan Cain, amazon.com
“The most sustaining motivation for change comes from connecting mindfully and compassionately with your inner suffering and the desire for relief from that suffering.”— Henry Emmons, Susan Bourgerie, Carolyn Denton, Sandra Cacher, amazon.com
“Each of you is perfect the way you are... and you could use a little improvement!”— Suzuki-roshi, amazon.com
“Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.”— Maria Robinson, amazon.com