Stacey

“The attempt to escape from pain, is what creates more pain.”
― Gabor Maté

“So much of the pain of loneliness is to do with concealment, with feeling compelled to hide vulnerability, to tuck ugliness away, to cover up scars as if they are literally repulsive. But why hide? What's so shameful about wanting, about desire, about having failed to achieve satisfaction, about experiencing unhappiness? Why this need to constantly inhabit peak states, or to be comfortably sealed inside a unit of two, turned inward from the world at large?”
― Olivia Laing, The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone

“Remember, you have the capacity to choose. Choose life! Choose love! Choose health!”
― Joseph Murphy, The Power of Your Subconscious Mind

“Learn the rules, break the rules, make up new rules, break the new rules.”
― Marvin Bell