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“Hopefully as you get older, you start to learn how to live with your demon. It’s hard at first. Some people give their demon so much room that there is no space in their head or bed for love. They feed their demon and it gets really strong and then it makes them stay in abusive relationships or starve their beautiful bodies. But sometimes, you get a little older and get a little bored of the demon. Through good therapy and friends and self-love you can practice treating the demon like a hacky, annoying cousin. Maybe a day even comes when you are getting dressed for a fancy event and it whispers, “You aren’t pretty,” and you go, “I know, I know, now let me find my earrings.” Sometimes you say, “Demon, I promise you I will let you remind me of my ugliness, but right now I am having hot sex so I will check in later.”
Amy Poehler, Yes Please

“I think if you can dance and be free and not embarrassed you can rule the world.”
Amy Poehler, Yes Please

“I am introducing a new idea. Try to care less. Practice ambivalence. Learn to let go of wanting it.”
Amy Poehler, Yes Please

“You can only move if you are actually in the moment. You have to be where you are to get where you need to go.”
Amy Poehler, Yes Please

Diana Wynne Jones
“It never ceases to amaze me,” [Chrestomanci] said, “the way people always manage to worry about the wrong things. My dear sir, do you realise that you, your son, and four of your pupils, are all likely to be burnt unless we do something? And here are you worrying about timetables.”
Diana Wynne Jones, Witch Week
tags: life, worry

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