Tori Mosolgo

“Do what you have to do. Make doing what you have to do a priority for your life, because if you don't, you leave yourself behind.
You do not have to prostrate yourself at the feet of shame for one more minute or keep begging for forgiveness for being yourself.
We need you.
We need you to stop waiting to be ready. To stop waiting to act until you become the self you imagine you would be if only you were different than you are.
We need your radical truth-telling, your willingness to speak from your heart, but most of all, we need the unrepeatable essence of you.
Come back.”
― Geneen Roth, This Messy Magnificent Life: A Field Guide

“When you don't want to be where you are, you create suffering for yourself. Change happens through acceptance, kindness and relaxation--not resistance, not warfare, not fights.”
― Geneen Roth

“I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. One fig was a husband and a happy home and children, and another fig was a famous poet and another fig was a brilliant professor, and another fig was Ee Gee, the amazing editor, and another fig was Europe and Africa and South America, and another fig was Constantin and Socrates and Attila and a pack of other lovers with queer names and offbeat professions, and another fig was an Olympic lady crew champion, and beyond and above these figs were many more figs I couldn't quite make out. I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar