Joy

“Your misery doesn't change their situation. You can't lessen their misery by carrying it for them inside you. It doesn't work that way. There are ways for you to be a better mother to them at this point in all of your lives. Sentencing yourself to live in prison isn't one of them.”
― Lori Gottlieb, Maybe You Should Talk to Someone

“You can't heal what you can't feel.”
― Edith Eger, The Choice: Embrace the Possible

“How easily the life we didn’t live becomes the only life we prize. How easily we are seduced by the fantasy that we are in control, that we were ever in control, that the things we could or should have done or said have the power, if only we had done or said them, to cure pain, to erase suffering, to vanish loss. How easily we can cling to—worship—the choices we think we could or should have made.”
― Edith Eger, The Choice

“Our future is the sum of an equation that is part intention and part circumstance. And our intentions could shift. Or split.”
― Edith Eger, The Choice: Embrace the Possible