relationship with self

“Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more.” -Melody Beattie

“I am a series of small victories and large defeats and I am as amazed as any other that I have gotten from there to here.”

-Charles Bukowski

"We forget most of our past but embody all of it." — John Updike

"I am not one and simple, but complex and many."

-Virginia Woolf

"The true self is not created, it is surrendered to.”

— Richard Rohr, The Art of Letting Go

It is never too late to be what you might have been. — George Eliot

“Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?” — Charles Bukowski

“Someone has a great fire in his soul and nobody ever comes to warm themselves at it, and passers-by see nothing but a little smoke at the top of the chimney and then go on their way.” — Vincent van Gogh

Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you. – Anne Lamott