The mind
Life seems like a series of all-or-nothingness. Like you have too little of something, only to be met with too much of it. One month your calendar is bare, and you crave connection. The next is it full, and you crave stillness. You hustle and chase money in your youth, only to be met by more of it than you can imagine in your retirement. Yet we
... See moreI am all talk right now. Life can’t go on. That’s just a thing people say to other people because they heard it on daytime TV. It doesn’t exist for me. It never will. There will be no moving on. But people not living in the valley of a tragedy don’t like to hear this. They like to hear you “buck up.” They want to say to your friends, to your
... See moreTaylor Jenkins Reid • Forever, Interrupted
had never felt so desirable, had never realized how feeling that desirable made me feel like I could do anything in the world.
Taylor Jenkins Reid • Forever, Interrupted
I’m just trying to tell you that your life will be very long with zigzags you can’t imagine. You won’t realize just how young you are until you aren’t that young anymore.
Taylor Jenkins Reid • Forever, Interrupted
“Just remember that if you wade too long in the misery of it, you’ll wake up one day and find that your entire life is built around a ghost.
Taylor Jenkins Reid • Forever, Interrupted
Things happen in your life that you can’t possibly imagine. But time goes on and time changes you and the times change and the next thing you know, you’re smack in the middle of a life you never saw coming.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid • Forever, Interrupted
Happiness is not having the best of everything, but the ability to make the best of anything.
Brianna Wiest • The Pivot Year
Happiness is not finding success by a certain time, but finding something you love so much time itself seems to disappear.
Brianna Wiest • The Pivot Year
Happiness is not thinking you have earned the world’s approval, but waking up each day and feeling so at peace within your own skin, quietly anticipating the day ahead, unconcerned with how you are perceived.