Sophia

“Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create.”
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

“You should never hold yourself accountable for results you don’t control, but always for the strength of trying.”
― Michael Bennett, F*ck Feelings: One Shrink's Practical Advice for Managing All Life's Impossible Problems

“I still made a short detour to seek out a flower stall, and went home with a large bunch of roses. They are just as real as all the misery I witness each day.”
― Etty Hillesum, An Interrupted Life: The Diaries, 1941-1943; and Letters from Westerbork

“Working hard at managing love doesn’t mean becoming supremely unselfish and generous in a totally unconditional, nonjudgmental way; it means becoming very judgmental about what you can expect from people and yourself and putting conditions on whom you allow yourself to get close to, love be damned.”
― Michael Bennett, F*ck Feelings: One Shrink's Practical Advice for Managing All Life's Impossible Problems