Devon Ainslie

“We grow by the obstacles we face and the wide scope of emotions we feel. That's how we understand one another. That is how we understand ourselves.”
― Suleika Jaouad, Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted

“The narratives we create in order to justify our actions and choices become in so many ways who we are. They are the things we say back to ourselves to explain our complicated lives.”
― Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Someone Who's Been There

“She told me that you get to have only one true love, and once you've found it, whether you kept it or lost it, you'd never recover...Accepting that was the hardest part.”
― Pamela Anderson, Love, Pamela

“I think we all suffer from the societal pressure to always be occupied. Busy is worn as a badge of honor these days, the busier we are, the more important we feel. But busy doesn't mean important, busy just means you are preoccupied and often means you are distracted. It doesn't mean you are esteemed, fun, smart, worthy, valued, loved, appreciated, excited, or happy. Busy means you are not paying attention to the current moment, but instead are hustling around in a fog of things you have to do.

Busy isn't special, we are all busy.”
― Tara Schuster, Buy Yourself the F*cking Lilies: And Other Rituals to Fix Your Life, from Someone Who's Been There