Emma Peterson

“The problem is that the pervasiveness of technology and mass marketing is screwing up a lot of people’s expectations for themselves. The inundation of the exceptional makes people feel worse about themselves, makes them feel that they need to be more extreme, more radical, and more self-assured to get noticed or even matter.”
― Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

“I thought about the stories I’d heard about mothers lifting cars off their babies or fighting off a pack of wolves on the Oregon Trail. I’d always sort of thought they were tall tales or at least uncommon. But now I thought that maybe it was just the wolf pack at your door or the car on top of your child that was the rare thing. Maybe this strength, this superhuman power was always there, latent.”
― Noelle W. Ihli, Ask for Andrea

“In simple terms, the language you use to describe your circumstances determines how you see, experience, and participate in them and dramatically affects how you deal with your life and confront problems both big and small.”
― Gary John Bishop, Unfu*k Yourself: Get Out of Your Head and into Your Life – The New York Times Bestselling Tough-Love Self-Help Guide to Stop Self-Sabotage and Boost Resilience

“Go forth and do whatever the fuck you want, so long as it’s aligned with what you want and allows you to be right with yourself. There is no single version of the truth. There are versions. Make your own.”
― Holly Whitaker, Quit Like a Woman: The Radical Choice to Not Drink in a Culture Obsessed with Alcohol