The basics are not glamorous. They don’t give us that hit of having bought something that promises to fix everything. But they are cash in the health bank. When life starts throwing things at you, those defences are going to keep you
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“I think about how it's the not knowing that torments all of us. At a certain point, we all have to come to terms with the unknown and the unknowable. Sometimes we'll never know why.”
― Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
― Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
“Be an intentional friend, one that pays careful attention to a pal's life and needs. Treat a friendship like the gift that it is.”
― The Friendship Crisis
― The Friendship Crisis
“I felt trapped in quicksand. Books were about movement. Beginning and middles and ends, even if not in that order. They were about new chapters. And leaving old ones behind.”
― Reasons to Stay Alive
― Reasons to Stay Alive
“I feel like I'm in the middle of the ocean. Like I could swim in any direction but I can't see land so I don't know which way to go.”
― The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter and How to Make the Most of Them Now
― The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter and How to Make the Most of Them Now
“All humans make mistakes. What determines a person's characters aren't the mistakes we make. It's how we take those mistakes and turn them into lessons rather than excuses.”
― It Ends with Us
― It Ends with Us
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