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#1

“Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let the pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe it to be a beautiful place”
― Iain Thomas, I Wrote This For You

tags: inspirational

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#2

“Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped and insane your whole life, and it is the main obstacle between you and a shitty first draft. I think perfectionism is based on the obsessive belief that if you run carefully enough, hitting each stepping-stone just right, you won't have to die. The truth is that you will die anyway and that a lot of people who aren't even looking at their feet are going to do a whole lot better than you, and have a lot more fun while they're doing it.”
― Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

tags: life, perfectionism, writing

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#3

“I do not understand the mystery of grace -- only that it meets us where we are and does not leave us where it found us.”
― Anne Lamott

tags: inspirational-grace

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#4

“Your problem is how you are going to spend this one and precious life you have been issued. Whether you're going to spend it trying to look good and creating the illusion that you have power over circumstances, or whether you are going to taste it, enjoy it and find out the truth about who you are.”
― Anne Lamott

tags: inspirational

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#5

“When God is going to do something wonderful, He or She always starts with a hardship; when God is going to do something amazing, He or She starts with an impossibility. ”
― Anne Lamott, Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

tags: faith, god

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#6

“The only meaningful thing we can offer one another is love. Not advice, not questions about our choices, not suggestions for the future, just love.”
― Glennon Melton, Carry On, Warrior: Thoughts on Life Unarmed

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#7

“The sun shows up every morning, no matter how bad youve been the night before. It shines without judgment. It never withholds. It warms the sinners, the saints, the druggies, the cheerleaders- the saved and the heathens alike. You can hide from the sun, but it wont take you personally. It´ll never, ever punish yourfor hiding. You can stay in the dark for years or decades, and when you finally step outside, it´ll be there.”
― Glennon Doyle Melton, Carry On, Warrior: Thoughts on Life Unarmed

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#8

“People who need help sometimes look a lot like people who don’t need help.”
― Glennon Doyle Melton, Carry On, Warrior: Thoughts on Life Unarmed

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#9

“Life is hard—not because we’re doing it wrong, just because it’s hard.”
― Glennon Doyle Melton, Carry On, Warrior: Thoughts on Life Unarmed

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#10

“Since brokenness is the way of folks, the only way to live peacefully is to forgive everyone constantly, including yourself.”
― Glennon Melton, Carry On, Warrior: Thoughts on Life Unarmed

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#11

“Because true belonging only happens when we present our authentic, imperfect selves to the world, our sense of belonging can never be greater than our level of self-acceptance.”
― Brené Brown, Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

tags: authenticity, belonging, self-acceptance

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#12

“To love ourselves and support each other in the process of becoming real is perhaps the greatest single act of daring greatly.”
― Brené Brown, Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

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#13

“Shame derives its power from being unspeakable.”
― Brené Brown, Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

tags: disclosure, shame, speaking

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#14

“Numb the dark and you numb the light.”
― Brené Brown, Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

tags: darkness, fear, feelings, joy, light, numbness, sadness

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#15

“I felt very still and empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullabaloo.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

tags: chaos, emptiness, normalcy, numbness, stillness

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#16

“Dissociation gets you through a brutal experience, letting your basic survival skills operate unimpeded…Your ability to survive is enhanced as the ability to feel is diminished…All feeling are blocked; you ‘go away.’ You are disconnected from the act, the perpetrator & yourself…Viewing the scene from up above or some other out-of-body perspective is common among sexual abuse survivors.”
― Renee Fredrickson, Repressed Memories: A Journey to Recovery from Sexual Abuse

tags: abuse, abuse-survivors, child-rape, child-sexual-abuse, child-sexual-abuse-survivor, depersonalization, disconnected, dissociated, dissociation, incest, numb, numbness, out-of-body, out-of-body-experience, rape, sexual-abuse

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#17

“It is not seen as insane when a fighter, under an attack that will inevitable lead to his death, chooses to take his own life first. In fact, this act has been encouraged for centuries, and is accepted even now as an honorable reason to do the deed. How is it any different when you are under attack by your own mind?”
― Emilie Autumn, The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls

tags: depression, honor, mental, suicide, war

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#18

“My mind," he said, "rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. I can dispense then with artificial stimulants. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation. That is why I have chosen my own particular profession, or rather created it, for I am the only one in the world.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Sign of Four

tags: mental, mind, mystery, rebellion, sherlock-holmes, stagnation

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#19

“Depression is a painfully slow, crashing death. Mania is the other extreme, a wild roller coaster run off its tracks, an eight ball of coke cut with speed. It's fun and it's frightening as hell. Some patients - bipolar type I - experience both extremes; other - bipolar type II - suffer depression almost exclusively. But the "mixed state," the mercurial churning of both high and low, is the most dangerous, the most deadly. Suicide too often results from the impulsive nature and physical speed of psychotic mania coupled with depression's paranoid self-loathing.”
― David Lovelace, Scattershot: My Bipolar Family

tags: bipolar, depression, manic-depression, suicide

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#20

“Love is not enough. It takes courage to grab my father's demon, my own, or - God help me - my child's and strap it down and stop its mad jig; to sit in a row of white rooms filled with pills and clubbed dreamers and shout: stop smiling, shut up; shut up and stop laughing; you're sitting in hell. Stop preaching; stop weeping. You are a manic-depressive, always. your life is larger than most, unimaginable. You're blessed; just admit it and take the damn pill.”
― David Lovelace, Scattershot: My Bipolar Family

tags: bipolar, love, manic-depression, medication, mental-disorders

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#21

“When sleep puts an end to delirium, it is a good symptom.”
― Hippocrates, The Aphorisms of Hippocrates

tags: arousal, bipolar, calming, circadian-rhythm, delirium, immunology, rest, sleep-medicine, symptom

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#22

“Suddenly I wanted to get better. Mania wasn't fun anymore. It wasn't creative or visionary. It was mean parody at best, a cheap chemical trick. I needed to stop and get better. I'd take whatever they gave me, I pledged silently. I'd take Trilafon or Thorazine or whatever. I just wanted to sleep.”
― David Lovelace, Scattershot: My Bipolar Family

tags: bipolar, mania, manic-depression, medication

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#23

“If you think there is something wrong with Bipolar People you might want to Google the Famous Bipolar List. Everyone on it had something wrong with them but obviously for all the right reasons”
― Stanley Victor Paskavich

tags: bipolar, bipolar-disorder, bipolar-quotes, famous-bipolar-people

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#24

“Our mother was different, but that’s what we liked about her. While other children had strict routines and consequences, we had freedom and frivolity— and we didn’t want the party to end.”
― Amra Pajalic, Things Nobody Knows But Me

tags: bipolar, memoir, mental-illness, mothers-and-daughters

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#25

“Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.”
― Anais Nin

tags: anxiety, love, saveing

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#26

“Don’t worry if people think you’re crazy. You are crazy. You have that kind of intoxicating insanity that lets other people dream outside of the lines and become who they’re destined to be.”
― Jennifer Elisabeth, Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl

tags: anxiety, art, beach, born-ready, cape-cod, coming-of-age, constellations, crazy, depression, destiny, fate, friends, girls, growing, growing-up, hope, insanity, inspiration, jennifer-elisabeth, learning, life, love, lovers, ocean, pray, prayer, red-thread, red-thread-of-destiny, red-thread-of-fate, self-acceptance, self-love, self-reflection, soul, soul-mates, stars, teenagers, teens, time, universe, wish

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#27

“I've spent most of my life and most of my friendships holding my breath and hoping that when people get close enough they won't leave, and fearing that it's a matter of time before they figure me out and go.”
― Shauna Niequist, Bittersweet: Thoughts on Change, Grace, and Learning the Hard Way

tags: anxiety, friendships, social-anxiety

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#28

“I want to be the best version of myself for anyone who is going to someday walk into my life and need someone to love them beyond reason.”
― Jennifer Elisabeth, Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl

tags: anxiety, art, beach, born-ready, cape-cod, coming-of-age, constellations, depression, destiny, fate, friends, girls, growing, growing-up, healing, hope, inspiration, jennifer-elisabeth, learning, life, love, lovers, ocean, pray, prayer, red-thread, red-thread-of-destiny, red-thread-of-fate, self-acceptance, self-love, self-reflection, soul, soul-mates, stars, teenagers, teens, time, universe, wish

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#29

“Even if she be not harmed, her heart may fail her in so much and so many horrors; and hereafter she may suffer--both in waking, from her nerves, and in sleep, from her dreams.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

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#30

“Arrogance is someone claiming to have come to Christ, but they won't spend more than five minutes listening to your journey because they are more concerned about their own well being, rather than being a true disciple of Christ. Blessed is the person that takes the time to heal and hear another person so they can move on.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: anxiety, arrogance, caring, christians, closure, communication, compassion, empathy, fear, honesty, hypocrites, judgement, kindness, listen, lost-souls, love, mercy-thompson, needing-closure, not-listening, true-followers-of-christ

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