Kelsey

“I know there may be universes out there where I made different choices and they led me somewhere else, led me to someone else. And my heart breaks for every single version of me that didn't end up with you.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Maybe in Another Life

“Ruth had learned only one thing from the current reality, and it was that everything held together by tacit agreement that it would. All it took to unravel something was one party deciding to do just that. There was no real structure to prevent chaos. There was only a collective faith in order.”
― Rumaan Alam, Leave the World Behind

“If people in white collar professional jobs, who are among our society's most well educated, driven, and high achieving citizens are becoming addicts, what does that say about us as a society?

I ask myself, what is the point of being here at all, of striving to achieve success, and careers, and personal lives, if so many want to escape once they get there?”
― Eilene B. Zimmerman, Smacked: A Story of White-Collar Ambition, Addiction, and Tragedy

“Perhaps you are not yet where you feel you should be, but from one dreamer to another, a careful word of advice: You could reach every last one of your goals and still find yourself unfulfilled at the finishing line.

The true essence of life exists in the in between. It is in the striving that your excellence is exposed to the world. It is in the setbacks that the strength of your spirit is learned. In the unfinished dream lies the full and burning heart of life.
It is only a spell of the mind, an artful deception, that you might find fulfillment in fortune, fame, perfection or power. Life is lived here: In the distance you still have left to travel. The is where the true magic happens.

- The Ascent”
― Beau Taplin, Here at Dawn