Gentle reminders for when the going gets tough!
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to change you is the greatest accomplishment.
Ralph Waldo Emmerson
While you were overthinking, you missed everything worth feeling
Nitya Prakash
Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, aware of the fullness of your own presence rather than of the absence of others. Because solitude is an achievement.
Alice Koller
I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.
Virginia Woolf
You must go in quest of yourself and you will find yourself again only in the simple and forgotten things. Why not go into the forest for a time, literally? Sometimes a tree tells you more than can be read in books…
Carl Jung
Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it.
Ralph Waldo Emmerson
Worrying is like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn’t get you anywhere.
Van Wilder
I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
Agatha Christie
My journey took me somewhat further down the rabbit-hole than I intended, and though I dirtied my fluffy white tail, I have emerged, enlightened.
Sherlock Holmes
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.
Dr Seuss
…life rearranges itself to compensate for your loss, sometimes wonderfully.
from Hanya Yanagihara’s A Little Life
He said, “Try to learn to breathe deeply, to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.”
Ernest Hemingway
The world is full of painful stories. Sometimes it seems as though there aren’t any other kind, and yet I found myself thinking how beautiful that glint of water was through the trees.
Octavia Butler
I think there is a pressure on people to turn every negative into a positive, but we should be allowed to say. ‘I went through something really strange and awful and it has altered me forever’.
Marian Keyes
