Fannie

“The victim mindset will have you dancing with the devil, then complaining that you're in hell.”
― Steve Maraboli

“You don't need to retire to a cloister or the desert for years on end to experience a true dark night; you don't even have to be pursuing any particular "spiritual" path. Raising a challenged child, or caring for a failing parent for years on end, is at least as purgative as donning robes and shaving one's head; to endure a mediocre work situation for the sake of the paycheck that sustains a family demands at least as much in the way of daily surrender to years of pristine silence in a monastery. No one can know in advance how and where the night will come, and what form God's darkness will take.”
― Tim Farrington, A Hell of Mercy: A Meditation on Depression and the Dark Night of the Soul

“We demand too much of life, too little of ourselves.”
― Christopher Lasch, The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations

“It is only when we are truly alone, without someone else to lean on, left with our own inner solitude that we can undergo a process of change.The introspection that is needed to bring out the light that has dwindled down to ash and reignite the fire of our being. So let the darkness shape you, let it reform you, let it cradle you and birth you into a new life. Let the spark flame again, in the darkness is where you will find it.”
― LJ Vanier