Paula

“We cannot selectively numb emotions; when we numb the painful emotions, we also numb the positive emotions.”
― Courtney Carver, Soulful Simplicity: How Living With Less Can Lead to So Much More

“Emmett wasn’t one for circuses. He wasn’t one for magic shows or rodeos. He hadn’t even liked going to the football games at his high school, which were attended by nearly everyone in town. He’d simply never taken to the idea of sitting in a crowd to watch someone do something more interesting than what you were doing yourself.”
― Amor Towles, The Lincoln Highway

“I forgot who I was. For a really long time, I forgot who I was. It looked like I knew from the outside. I even believed it myself most of the time, but by the way I was building and living my life, it’s clear I had forgotten. There are times when I wonder if things would have been better if I hadn’t made the mistakes I made, but I rarely go down that road. I’m confident that because I got lost, disconnected, and turned upside down, I was able to come out even better on the other side and experience the kind of gratitude you just can’t tap into unless you know what it’s like to live outside of your heart. Not being yourself is exhausting and breaks you down from the inside out.”
― Courtney Carver, Soulful Simplicity: How Living With Less Can Lead to So Much More

“In each loss there is a gain, As in every gain there is a loss, And with each ending comes a new beginning. —Buddhist Proverb”
― Rochelle B. Weinstein, This Is Not How It Ends