Eleanor

“...all the things we do, every maladaptive behavior or pattern we have, is the result of a coping mechanism we learned in order to keep us alive or help us survive...I wasn't deceiving people because I was a piece of shit; I was doing what I had learned to do as a child to survive. And I was doing what worked. It just wasn't - let's say - a superhealthy or productive way to operate as an adult.”
― Laura McKowen, We Are the Luckiest: The Surprising Magic of a Sober Life

“All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen.”
― Roald Dahl, Matilda

“I say looking on the bright side of life never killed anybody.”
― Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“Be a curator of your life. Slowly cut things out until you’re left only with what you love, with what’s necessary, with what makes you happy.”
― Leo Babauta, The Effortless Life: A Manual for Contentment, Mindfulness, & Flow