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“Because improbable tragedies create improbable superheroes.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry

“My new mantra was “Decorum is highly overrated and probably causes cancer.”
― Jenny Lawson, Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things

“wonder: How much of what I feel as neglect has been fueled by the force of my constant need? How much can any person hold another who is perpetually falling?”
― Kiera Van Gelder, The Buddha and the Borderline: My Recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder through Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Buddhism, and Online Dating

“We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.” Thornton Wilder (1897–1975) WRITER AND PLAYWRIGHT Words”
― Rhonda Byrne, The Magic

“Gratitude is a vaccine, an antitoxin, and an antiseptic.”
― Rhonda Byrne, The Magic

“A thankful person is thankful under all circumstances.” Bahá’u’lláh (1817–1892) PERSIAN FOUNDER OF THE BAHÁ’Í FAITH”
― Rhonda Byrne, The Magic

“In one of the few memoirs of self-injury, Caroline Kettlewell describes her recovery in terms of neural pathways—the “groove” worn into her mind, the “wrong turns and dark corridors” marked by her history of cutting. Once she learns how to stand “the awful agony of unhappiness” without reverting to the bodily jolt of broken skin, she changes the map of psychological struggle in her mind. “[E]very time I gut it through and survive,” she concludes, “I’m reshaping the structure and the chemistry of my thoughts, wearing new paths less tortured and convoluted than the old ones.”   Cutting”
― Merri Lisa Johnson, Girl in Need of a Tourniquet: Memoir of a Borderline Personality

“The only constant in every aspect of your life is you, and if you want to achieve mastery and success in your life you must achieve mastery over yourself first. Your mind is the prime source of all your motivations and actions – work on it and you will set the foundation for the greatness that will come.”
― Tom Miles, A Year For Change: 52 Simple Steps to Transform Your Life

“we cannot choose for our children whether they live or die. It is a devastating realization, but also liberating. I finally chose life for myself. I chose the perilous but essential path that allows me to accept that Nic will decide for himself how—and whether—he will live his life.”
― David Sheff, Beautiful Boy

“Al-Anon’s Three Cs: “You didn’t cause it, you can’t control it, you can’t cure it.”
― David Sheff, Beautiful Boy

“It is still so easy to forget that addiction is not curable. It is a lifelong disease that can go into remission, that is manageable if the one who is stricken does the hard, hard work, but it is incurable.”
― David Sheff, Beautiful Boy