“If you are uncomfortable-in deep pain, angry, yearning, confused-you don’t have a problem, you have a life. Being human is not hard because you’re doing it wrong, it’s hard because you’re doing it right. You will never change the fact that being human is hard, so you must change your idea that it was ever supposed to be easy.” Glennon Doyle
“Ideas are clean. The soar in the serene supernal. I can take them out and look at them, they fit in books, they lead me down that narrow way. And in the morning they are there. Ideas are straight- but the world is round and the messy mortal is my friend. Come walk with me in the mud…” Hugh Prather in Notes to Myself
“Gut feelings are guardian angels. Listen to them.” @moonomens
“To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.” Dr. Seuss
“In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.” Eleanor Roosevelt
“If we would only listen with the same passion that we feel about needing to be heard.” Harriet Lerner
“there is magic in true friendship. we can’t do it alone. we need to guide each other through our dark nights into the light of day.” Rachel Wolchin
“More than anything else, attention is an act of connection.” Julia Cameron in “The Artist’s Way”
“I think a hero is any person really intent on making this a better place for all people.” Maya Angelou
“Do small things with great love.” Mother Theresa
“Nothing compares to trying to understand who your child is and then working to help them become who they were meant to be–not who you want them to be, but who they want to be.” Maria Shriver
“How lucky you are to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard. ” Winnie the Pooh
“How successful you are is really a function of how you deal with failure. If you deal with failure well and you persist, you have a high probability of being successful.” Bill Ackman
“True belonging is the spiritual practice of believing in and belonging to yourself so deeply that you can share your most authentic self with the world and find sacredness in both being a part of something and standing alone in the wilderness. True belonging doesn’t require you to change who you are; it requires you to be who you are.” Dr. Brene Brown