S.D.G. > Quotes

“When people let you down young in life, you develop hyper-independence, meaning you struggle to ask for help.”
― S.D.G., Naked

“Learning how to mother was like purchasing a $2 puzzle from the thrift shop… no idea if all the pieces were included.”
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“Rest is necessary because life requires work.”
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“My body is the one steady thing I have in this life. I have raged at my body. I have ignored my body. I have reviled my body. I started calling her 'she' and treating her like part of me, not just calling her my body.”
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“Productivity has become a social wound. Pay attention for one day to how most conversations revolve around being busy or not having enough hours in the day.”
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“The moment stasis is achieved in my life, it begins to shift. Biologically speaking, stasis is death.”
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“You will die with an incomplete to-do list. Please, just accept that.”
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“Change ensures you get options to decide the direction of your life.”
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“Relief+Grief:
The intense pain that someone, something, or an idea is gone forever, mixed with sweet relief that you also no longer have that problem or issue in your life anymore.”
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“One finally realizes that life is a scale. On on side, everything society tells you that you need to be happy. On the other side: the true nature of life.”
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“Why do we send flowers when people die? It’s a reminder of beauty, fleeting beauty. This is death. I will appreciate the joy of their life when I am not awash in the horrible darkness. When I am not awash in the moments of leaking, of sobbing, of numbness. When I am not awash in practical issues like ashes, caskets, and bills.”
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“I was longing for the beauty I knew within my warrior soul to shine brightly out and for me to see it first and foremost.”
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“Just, like, eat the bagel.”
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“Be brave enough to live your best life.”
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“True fascination is an interest so deep that it changes you.”
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“To be honest, I’m still not okay with it.
To be honest, I still get really fucking angry about it.
To be honest, I struggle when I put my focus on that pinched skin. To be honest, I will always take a breath before I bare myself naked to a partner.
To be honest, I still struggle to run my fingers across it in the bathtub.”
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“Do not put your to-do list ahead of living. You will die with an incomplete to-do list. Please, just accept that.”
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“I discovered that sometimes the best way to stop my brain from seeking an answer is to tell it I am missing part of the equation.”
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“I want to feel your
Sweet, tentative kiss
A respectful kiss
I want to feel that
Breakover moment
Where the kiss morphs
Into readiness”
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“When asked, “What do you want to be when you grow up?”
No little girl looks up with sparkly big eyes full of big dreams and says, “A saleswoman!”
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“There’s always been two of me. There’s this broken-me totally happy to live in the suck and knotty+dark. Then there’s this future-me, and she’s always been within me. She is bright and solid and the woman I always knew I’d grow to be. The woman I knew I’d become. She’s been slowly gaining ground throughout my entire life.”
― S.D.G., Naked

“Love should not be one-sided. Love is not unrequited love; that is lusting after something.”
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“Honor the mini-humans. They are full humans. They deserve as much respect as adults.”
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“Family is your starter hand of cards. Some people get a really excellent starter hand.”
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“When you forge your own path, people will naturally judge you for that. Let them.”
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“With my head against his chest, as breath entered his body, I remembered that I was breathing too. How long had it been since I’d taken a deep breath?”
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“I am not over it; it's just further away in time.”
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“Our energy was the space between our words. Our energy was the breath between our stories. Our energy was the first rays of spring’s sun on my skin. It was feeling his sunshine on my soul. It was feeling his eyes go through to the part of me that has never changed. It was feeling emotionally naked in the loveliest of ways, in the space in between.”
― S.D.G., Naked

“Confidence is rooted in uniqueness. Trust your inherent uniqueness and confidence will fall into place.”
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“The hardest thing in life is deciding when to stay and when to go. To stay, to go. It’s basically, in some situations, a coin toss or a feeling one afternoon in the gut.”
― S.D.G., Naked