Golnaz

“Depression is exhausting. It gets old so fast, listening to the elaborate prose of your brain tell you that you’re an idiot for even trying.”
― John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet

“I tell you these stories because when I look back, I still think of my life in high school musical theater as a metaphor for pretty much everything that was to follow in the real world. I've had ups and downs; I've had successes and senior slumps. I have been the girl who has the lead and the one who wished she had the bigger part. The truth, they don't feel that different from each other. My happiness has not been found in the mosts or bests no matter how many times I expected to find it there, and I looked; believe me, once in a while, I still look. We are all told it is there, all the time.”
― Lauren Graham, In Conclusion, Don't Worry About It

“Every morning I walk like this around
the pond, thinking: if the doors to my heart
ever close, I am as good as dead.”
― Mary Oliver, Dream Work

“When you are engrossed in a good book, or losing yourself in trying a new recipe or tackling something at work, and then you look up to the clock, only to realize just how many hours have passed. Whatever you want to call it: flying, sailing, surfing. It’s the way time moves differently when you are caught up in the simple joy of being yourself. It’s what can happen when you make the decision to let go of the criticism and worry and fear. And that’s where the best really lives.”
― Lauren Graham, In Conclusion, Don't Worry About It