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“You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.”
― Saul Bellow

“Love is the absence of judgment.”
― Dalai Lama XIV

“You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”
― Sharon Salzberg

“When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.”
― Carl Sandburg

“We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“Lunatics are similar to designated hitters. Often an entire family is crazy, but since an entire family can't go into the hospital, one person is designated as crazy and goes inside. Then, depending on how the rest of the family is feeling that person is kept inside or snatched out, to prove something about the family's mental health.”
― Susanna Kaysen, Girl, Interrupted

“If there is a single definition of healing it is to enter with mercy and awareness those pains, mental and physical, from which we have withdrawn in judgment and dismay. (48)”
― Stephen Levine, A Year to Live: How to Live This Year as If It Were Your Last

“Surely a good therapist should produce a Dorian Gray-style portrait from under the couch so the patient can see the person they really are.”
― Rosamund Lupton, Sister

“What does your anxiety do? It does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, but it empties today of its strength. It does not make you escape the evil; it makes you unfit to cope with it if it comes.”
― Raymond L. Cramer, The Psychology of Jesus & Mental Health

“I've always thought of wholeness and integration as necessary myths. We're fragmented beings who cement ourselves together, but there are always cracks. Living with the cracks is part of being, well, reasonably healthy”
― Siri Hustvedt, The Sorrows of an American

“Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die. ”
― Carrie Fisher

“No motive is pure. No one is good or bad-but a hearty mix of both. And sometimes life actually gives to you by taking away.”
― Carrie Fisher, Wishful Drinking